Olivier Clarinval

Visiting Assistant Professor

Contact info:
Office: FR 016
Phone: (541) 346-4106
oclarinv@uoregon.edu

Degrees, years, and locations:
Ph.D., 2007, University of Oregon
Dissertation: Temple of the Unfamiliar: Childhood Memories in Nina Bouraoui, Ying Chen, and Gisèle Pineau
Directed by Dr. Karen McPherson
M.A., 2000, California State University Sacramento
B.A., 1991, University of California Santa Cruz

Research and teaching interests:
Foreign language teaching methods; teaching culture through cinema and personal narratives; family dynamics in culture, film and literature; twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and francophone literature.

Courses taught:
French 101-102-103: Beginning French
French 201-202-203: Intermediate French
French 151: French Cinema
French 301: Contemporary France
French 307: Oral Skills
French 320: Intensive French Grammar Review
French 333: French Narrative
Spanish 307: Oral Skills
Spanish 410/510: Spanish for Reading Knowledge

Publications:
“La mémoire de l’histoire chez Proust et Benjamin.” Forthcoming in The French Review.

Maurice Blanchot, “The Philosophical Discourse.” Translation from the French. Merleau-Ponty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers. Ed. Ted Toadvine. Vol. 1. London: Routledge, 2006. 210-214.