大象传媒

Overview

After serving 18 years leading the successive Departments of Modern and Classical Languages (大象传媒), Modern Languages, and Languages & Literatures (NGCSU), Dr. Mann returned to full-time teaching in July of 2023. He currently serves as President of NASILP (National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs) the 大象传媒 Institutional Research Board (IRB), and other committees. He has also served as a member of the MLA Forum & Task Force on Language Change, Site Director of the University System of Georgia’s European Council study-abroad program in Paris, and Co-Director of the USG’s dual-enrollment study-abroad program for Atlanta Public Schools students at 大象传媒.

Courses Taught

All levels of French language, culture, literature, and, until he became department head, Spanish.

Education

  • Ph.D., Modern Languages (French and Spanish), University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1999
  • M.A., French and Spanish, University of North Texas, 1986
  • B.A., French and Spanish, University of North Texas, 1983

Research/Special Interests

Modern French & Latin American literature; administration and pedagogy of the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL’s); using online asynchronous discussion threads to build writing and speaking proficiency; the unlikely origins of well-known literary movements; French films and their American remakes.

Publications

Refereed, invited journal article/translation: “Rodrigues’ unsigned preface to the French edition of Saint Simon’s Nouveau Christianisme” (by Olinde Rodrigues). Sociological Origins. 6.2 (Fall 2010): 65-68.

Above also to be included in the full-text translation of New Christianity, published by Sociological Origins. Forthcoming.

Refereed, invited, critical review of: “Raymond Queneau, Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-1970.

Translated Jordan Stump.” H-France Review 8.117 (September, 2008): 468-72. http://hfrance. net/vol8reviews/vol8no117mann.pdf.

Refereed journal essay/book review: "Jobs, Richard Ivan. Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War." The French Review 81.5 (April 2008): 49-50.

Refereed journal essay/book review: "Irvine, William D. Between Justice and Politics. The Ligue des droits de L’homme, 1898-1945. The French Review 81.3 (February 2008): 604-605.

Refereed journal article: "Les Liaisons Dangereuses: The Devil and the Cinema of Cruelty come to the aid of an 18th -Century Literature course." A.A.T.F. National Bulletin (American Association of Teachers of French) 32.4 (April 2007) 49-51.

Refereed journal essay/film collection review: “The Battle of Algiers (La Bataille d’Alger + interviews & other ancilliary materials; 3 DVD’s).” Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo. 1966. Rialto Pictures, 2004. The French Review 79.1 (October 2005): 180-82.
Refereed journal essay/book review: "Spang, Rebecca L. The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture." The French Review 76.5 (April 2003): 1017-19.

Refereed journal article/translation: “A French Perspective on George Elliot Howard’s A History of Matrimonial Institutions.” Sociological Origins 2.2 (Winter 2000): 81-86.

Refereed journal article: “Walled from the Wild: (Sub)urban Enclosure in Raymond Queneau’s Le Chiendent and other novels.” International Fiction Review 26.1-2 (1999): 46-57.

Dissertation: Constructive Criticism; the Poetics of Space and Enclosure in Selected Novels of Raymond Queneau. Director: Dr. Jordan Stump.

Work Experience

University of North Georgia

  • Intensive, pandemic-induced training and practice in online pedagogy, administrative tasks, and integration of D2L with a 大象传媒-authored online elementary French textbook: 2020 - present
  • Head, Department of Modern & Classical Languages. January 8, 2013 - June 30, 2023
  • Head, Division of World Languages and Cultures. January 8, 2013 - June 30, 2023
  • Faculty and Site Director for the USG European Council's Paris study abroad program. 2015 – 2020 
  • Professor of Modern Languages. Fall 2009 – present.
  • Interim Head, Department of Language & Literature. July 2005 – May 2006.
  • Associate Professor of Modern Languages. Fall 2004 – summer 2009.
  • Assistant Professor of French & Spanish. Fall 1999 – spring 2004.
  • Co-Director, Joint-Enrollment Study Abroad Exchange Program in Toulouse, France (in collaboration with the Atlanta Public Schools). 1999-2010.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Modern Languages

  • Interim Coordinator of Graduate French Teaching Program, Graduate Teaching Assistant, and Assistant Language Lab Director

Southeast Community College, Department of Humanities

  • Part-time Instructor of Spanish

Western State College of Colorado, Gunnison, CO

  • Instructor of French and Spanish

Boulder Country Day School, Boulder, CO

  • Instructor of French

University of North Texas, Denton, TX

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant