Maryse  Fauvel

Professor of French

Office: Washington Hall 204
Phone: (757) 221-3697
Email: [[mxfauv]]

Publications

		Scènes d'intérieur: Six romanciers des années 1980-1990 (2007). Maryse Fauvel, author Although aimed at ephemeral gratification, the French novel of the 1980-1990s stresses openness to the other and provokes enduring questions. It no longer reflects a quest for cultural coherence or linguistic purity, but a multiplicity of trajectories that demonstrate strategies of coexistence. The visual image both influences and competes with the written text in some novels: Toussaint decries the era of the spectacle and the reign of idolatry ; Duras translates the un-representable. Other texts fight against oblivion: Lê re-members the colonial past and evokes the integration of immigrants in France; Ernaux delineates the commemorative traces of working-class identity. Others focus on the private sphere: Redonnet unfolds a utopic imagination in order to overcome a conflictual present dominated by technology and profit ; Sebbar creates nomadic characters in order to narrate hybridity in daily life. All display a dissident writing practice. Thus, these novels begin social and literary debates which are vital in the XXIst-Century.

		Tâches d'Encre (2004). Maryse Fauvel, co-author Second edition of a process-oriented composition text with new literary pieces, a new organisation, new writing assignments differentiating between four phases of the writing process. Each chapter ends with essays written by students from universities in the US : five of the eight essays have been written by students from the College of William and Mary in FR 305 !

Tâches d'Encre (1996). Maryse Fauvel, co-author This book is a process-oriented composition text intended for students who have completed two years of college-level study of French. The goals of the book are two-fold: improving students' written expression, in terms of both accuracy and content; and reducing writing anxiety so that students can write with more ease and less fear of the teacher's or another reader's corrective feedback. It was conceived with a variety of teaching contexts in mind. It thus contains a wide range of exercise and writing formats, including form-focused, teacher-initiated exercises, partner and small-group creative and editing activities, as well as structured and free writing assignments for individual work.