Julia di Liberti
Assistant Professor, Humanities

Tel.: (630) 942-2578
Fax.: (630) 942-3711
Room: IC 3073e
e-mail: dilibert@cod.edu

Areas of Research Interest:
Nineteenth Century French Fantastic Literature
Francophone Literature

Recent Courses Taught:
Introduction to the Arts
Non-Western Humanities

Current Projects:
*Sharing Common Threads: Sewing as a Metaphor in Five Francophone Texts
*Listen My Children and You Shall Hear: Listening Activities for the Advanced Language Learner
*An Introduction of Belgium into French and Humanities Curricula

Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
"Voyage Into the Crystal and Out of the Traditional: George Sand and the Fantastic." The XVth International George Sand Conference, Tulane University, 2002.
Book Review: Gounaridou, Kiki and Frazer Lively. Rachilde: Madame La Mort and Other Plays. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1998 in Women in French, 2001.
"The Clothes Do Make the Wo/Man: The Transformation of the Nineteenth Century Androgyne to the Twentieth Century Cross Dresser in Gabriel/le, Tootsie and Victor/Victora. Colloquium in Nineteenth Century French Studies on Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Nineteenth. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2001.
"Ils ont acie le bon argent and Other Crimes Related to Second Language Dictionary Use." American Association of Teachers of French National Bulletin, January 2000.
"Traitors, Traits and Portraits of the Native American in Works by Catlin and in Chateaubriand's Rene. The Illinois Philological Association, Eastern Illinois University, 2000.

Education:
Ph.D. French Literature, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

M.A. French Literature, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

B. A. Knox College, Galesburg, IL.

Awards and Recognitions:
American Association of Teachers of French Scholar in Belgium, Summer 2003. Recipient Benedictine Conference Grant to present my work and the work of two Rhetoric Students, 2000.
Recipient Bradley Faculty Travel Grant, 1997, 1999.
List of Teachers Rated Excellent by Their Students (Champaign-Urbana) 1992, 1993
Humanities Student Research Fund Grant 1993

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