Sauret, Martine

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SAURET, Martine

PERSONAL:

Female. Education: Sorbonne, University of Paris III, license, 1980, certificate (commerce), 1982; Université du Langues Orientales (Paris, France), diploma (Russian language and civilization), 1980; University of Minnesota, M.A., 1984, Ph.D. (with honors), 1991.

ADDRESSES:

Home—1604 Northrop La., Minneapolis, MN 55403. Office—Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Educator and author. University of Minnesota Language Center, Minneapolis, instructor in French and German, 1984-85; Association Henzel, Paris, France, English teacher, 1985-86; University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, instructor in French, 1988-89; St. John's University, Collegeville, MN, instructor, 1990-91, assistant professor of French, 1991-92; Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, assistant professor, 1992-97, associate professor of French, 1997—, director of program in Besançon, France, 1999—. Speaker at educational institutions, including Purdue University, University of Virginia, University of Toronto, and University of Missouri—Columbia; teacher of English as a second language. Ambassade de France aux Éats-Unis, New York, NY, committee member, 1999—.

MEMBER:

Modern Language Association of America, Société Française des Études du Siezième Siècle, Alliance Française of Kalamazoo, Pi Delta Phi.

AWARDS, HONORS:

National Endowment for the Humanities grant, 1998; Newberry Library fellow, 1998.

WRITINGS:

"Gargantua" et les délits du corps, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 1997.

(Translator into French) Tom Conley, The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes (Vincennes, France), 2000.

Contributor to books, including Christopher Baker, editor, Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2000. Contributor of articles to periodicals, including French Women in the Renaissance Newsletter, Nouvelle Revue du 16e Siècle, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance News and Notes, Sixteenth Century Studies, and Substance.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

A book, Voies cartographiques.

SIDELIGHTS:

Martine Sauret told CA: "I like to write to understand things, to develop thoughts in a more materialistic way, analyze and synthesize my thoughts. My work is influenced by discussions, newspapers, philosophers, and critics; sometimes by a very bad book, in which case I write to mention what is wrong.

"After reading material, I start on the computer and write notes. Sometimes I use a fountain pen. I love to organize my ideas in a very specific notebook with clarity, and this visual aid enhances my writing.

"Who inspired me? My writing is inspired by two of my former professors—and now friends—who have helped and supported me in writing about authors who were hard to decipher but extremely fascinating to me. What inspires me? When I was a child, I was fascinated by maps. My new book deals with imagination and maps."