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E-mail: tucker@cas.usf.edu

 

 

Dr. Roberta Tucker

Roberta Tucker is the French Graduate Program Director, French Teaching Assistant Supervisor, and Paris Program Director. She has been at USF since 1994 and has taught courses on French language, literature, and culture.

She is especially interested in 19th Century French literature, science fiction, and cognitive studies applied to literature. Sample publications and presentations include:

Editor of special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies on Literature and Consciousness published in May/June 2004. Wrote the introduction entitled “Disorientation, Reorientation, a Compulsion to Explain.”

Article “Teaching Mallarmé’s ‘Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui’ to First-Semester Students of French,” in The French Review, December 2000.

Paper “The Narration and Incorporation of Brain-Mechanism Awareness into Literature” presented at the 32nd Annual Comparative Literature Symposium: Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain at Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX, February 1999.

Dr. Tucker also leads and teaches a month-long summer study abroad program in Paris on French Culture and Civilization.


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