Faculty and Staff
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