Darci Gardner

BIO:

• 19th and 20th century France
• visual culture & film
• readers & cognitive studies of how people read

Courses Taught

Literature:

Fashion and Image in Post-Romantic Paris (Designed and taught) - Winter 2011

Images of Women in French Cinema (TA) - Spring 2010

Middle Ages & Renaissance France, Writing in the Major (TA) - Winter 2008, Fall 2010, and Fall 2011

Language:

French 3 (Instructor) - Spring 2011 and Spring 2012

Intensive First-Year French, Part A (Instructor) - Summer 2010

Second-Year French, Part 1 (Instructor) - Fall 2009

First-Year French, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Instructor) - 2008-09 Academic Year

Conference Papers

"Changing Reading Practices: The Visual Features of Mallarmé's Poetry," Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, Mar. 2012, UNC-Chapel Hill

"Space and Subjectivity in Monet: The Poplars Series," The 35th Annual International Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Oct. 2009, Brigham-Young University.

"Self-Representation in Chagall: Inscribing History in Images," Romance Studies Colloquium, Oct. 2009, Montclair State University.

"The Carmen Myth: Adaptation Across Artistic Mediums," The 34th Annual International Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Oct. 2008, Vanderbilt University.

"The Passage of Time in Literature: Multiple Perspectives in Proust," The 39th Annual College English Association Conference, Mar. 2008, St. Louis, MO.

"Scientific Contexts for Understanding Baudelaire's Interest in Synesthesia," co-presented with Prof. Patricia Ward, 32nd Annual International Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Oct. 2006, Indiana University.

Dissertation

Rereading as Requirement: The Cognitive Demands of Mallarmé, Krysinska, and Proust