Curriculum Vitae - University of Massachusetts Lowell

Carole SALMON, Ph.D.
Carole_Salmon@uml.edu
CURRENT POSITION
Interim Chair
Department of Cultural Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell 2013-2014
Associate professor of French Studies and Culture
September 2013- now
Department of Cultural Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
EDUCATION
Louisiana State University (LSU) Baton Rouge, LA
-Ph.D. in French Studies (dissertation topic in sociolinguistics)
TEACHING
Advanced Level French Classes:
Advanced Conversation and Composition (50.348)
Contemporary French Civilization and Culture (50.320)
The French-Speaking world (50.310)
Francophone Identities through Cinema (50.380)
Contemporary French Cinema (50.340)
Survey of Francophone Literatures (50.302)
Advanced French Conversation (50.346)
Francophone Communities in North America (50.315)
Survey of French Literature, from the Middle Ages until the 20 th century (50.301)
Online Elementary French Courses created and taught (Fall 2009-2011):
Fall 2009: French I and Culture online (50.101)
Spring 2010: French II and Culture online (50.102)
Fall 2010: French III and Culture online (50.211)
Spring 2011: French IV and Culture online (50.212)
Awards
- Nominated for the 2010 Teacher Awards sponsored by the UML Student Government
Association
-Department of Cultural Studies annual Teaching Award 2009
Other Teaching Activities: Mentoring Programs
2012-2013. Participation in the Emerging Scholars’ Program, sponsored by the Center for
Women and Work at UMass Lowell. Project title: “The Franco-American French language and
culture in the collective memory.” Student-mentoring program for one academic year.

2012-2013. Participation in the Research Co-op Program, sponsored by the College of FAHSS.
Research project dealing with the Franco-American interviews in English collected during the
2011 fieldwork across New England. Student-mentoring program for one academic year.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Presentations at International and National Conferences (selected)
18t h Biennal Conference of the American Council for Quebec Studies (ACQS). « Nouvelles
recherches en Franco-Américanie: la constitution d'un corpus de français et d’anglais francoaméricain».
Sarasota, Florida, November 8-11, 2012.
4 th International Conference Les français d’ici. « À la recherche du français en Nouvelle
Angleterre: une enquête de terrain à travers six États ». With Sylvie Dubois. University of
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, June 13-15, 2012.
2 nd International UNESCO Conference Sharing Cultures 2011: Intangible Heritage. “Preserving
the Franco-American Linguistic and Cultural Heritage: From the Language to the Culture and
Back?” Tomar, Portugal, July 3-6, 2011.
1 st Congreso internacional sobre historia, literatura y arte en el cine en español y portugués.
“When the Comedy is Divine: Broken Embraces, the Initiatory Journey of a Filmmaker.” With
Maria R. Matz. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, June 28-30, 2011.
International Conference New Francophonies and Colonial Languages in a Global World.
“From Louisiana to New England: Being Francophone in the United States Today. University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 7-9, 2011.
Chaired Sessions for the North Eastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
45th Annual Conference of the NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association). Session
chair. Session title: “La Francophonie en Amérique du Nord: relations et représentations”/
“Francophonie in North America: Relationships and Representations”. Harrisburg, PA. April 3-
6 2014.
44th Annual Conference of the NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association). Session cochair
with Marianne Bessy, Furman University. Session title: Représentation(s) de la migration
dans le cinéma français contemporain/ Representation(s) of Migration in Contemporary French
Cinema. Boston, Massachusetts, March 21-24, 2013.
Scientific Committees and Reviews (Selected)
Ecole polytechnique, Paris, France
Member of the scientific committee reading and evaluating communications’ proposals to be
presented at the International Colloquium Enseigner la grammaire. Organized by the
Département Langues, Cultures & Communication. Ecole Polytechnique, November 15-16,
2012.

Book Reviews
For La Revue de linguistique romane
Blondeau, Hélène. 2011. Cet «autres» qui nous distingue: tendances communautaires et
parcours individuels dans le système des pronoms en français québécois, Presses de l’Université
Laval: Laval, Québec. In Revue de linguistique romane, Tome 77, 305-306. Janvier-juin 2013,
p.273-6.
For The French Review
Alen, Patricia and Altay Manço, eds. 2012. Appropriation du français par les migrants : rôles
des actions interculturelles. L’Harmattan : Paris. In the French Review, vol.TBA, date TBA, p.
TBA. Forthcoming.
Sorlin, Sandrine. 2012. Langue et autorité: de l’ordre linguistique à la force dialogique. PU de
Rennes : Rennes. In the French Review, vol. 87.1, date TBA, p. 140- 1. Forthcoming.
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Monograph
Salmon, Carole. Cent ans de français cadien en Louisiane: étude sociolinguistique du parler des
femmes. (One Hundred Years of Cajun French in Louisiana: A Sociolinguistic Study of the
Speech of Women). 2009. Coll: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, vol. 72. Peter
Lang Publishing: New York.
Co-Edited Volume
Matz, María R. and Carole Salmon (eds.). 2012. How the Films of Pedro Almodóvar Draw Upon
and Influence Spanish Society: Bilingual Essays on his Cinema. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston,
NY.
Book Chapter
Matz, Maria R. and Carole Salmon. 2012. “Facing Almodóvar's Vision of Spanish
Contemporary Society: Women, Men and Everyone in Between”, in How the Films of Pedro
Almodóvar Draw Upon and Influence Spanish Society: Bilingual Essays on his Cinema. Eds.
María R. Matz and Carole Salmon. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston, NY. Pp.13-35.
Article in Refereed Journal
Salmon, Carole and Sylvie Dubois. 2013. “À la recherche du français en Nouvelle-
Angleterre: une enquête de terrain à travers six États”. In Journal of French Language
Studies, Available on CJO 2013 doi:10.1017/S095926951300029X
Articles in Refereed Proceedings (selected)
Salmon, Carole. 2012. «De la Louisiane à la Nouvelle-Angleterre: portraits de femmes
francophones aux Etats-Unis» (From Louisiana to New England: Portraits of Francophone
Women in the United States). In Pauzet, Anne and Sophie Roch-Veiras (eds.) Femme en
Francophonie: thèmes de société, volume 2 (Woman in Francophonie: social topics, volume 2).
Cahiers du CIRHiLL numéro 37. L’Harmattan et les éditions de l’UCO: Paris. Pp. 43-58.
Salmon, Carole. 2010. «La genèse du corpus Francophone Heritage of Louisiana (FHL) et du
corpus Lettres de Louisiane (LL)» (The Genesis of the Francophone Heritage of Louisiana

(FHL) Corpus and the Letters of Louisiana (LL) Corpus). In Dubois, S. (ed.) Une histoire
épistolaire de la Louisiane. Presse de L’Université Laval, Coll. Les voies du français: Québec.
Pp. 15-26.
Online Databases
2010. Salmon, Carole (coordinator). Lettres de Louisiane corpus: 38 documents found in
Louisiana, written in French during the French Revolution and their transcription. Available
online: http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/p15140coll6
2008. Salmon, Carole. Coordinator. Francophone Heritage of Louisiana corpus: 100 letters
written in French in Louisiana from 1729 to 1877 and their transcription. Available online:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/cffs/index.html
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Sociolinguistic Fieldwork
2011. Corpus of Franco-American French and English across teh six states of New England (124
audio interviews). Sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana
State University.
Collaboration with Linguistics Research Team
Spring 2011-now. Collaborator on the international research team of the project French in North
America: a Shared Heritage (“Le français à la mesure d’un continent”), directed by Dr. France
Martineau at the University of Ottawa. Project funded by the SSHRC (Canada). Research
Team:13 primary researchers, 88 partners and collaborators across 40 universities worldwide.
See http://continent.uottawa.ca/ and http://continent.uottawa.ca/equipe/collaborateurs/ for details.
SERVICE ACTIVITIES (selected)
Guest Speakers Invited On Campus (Selected)
March 21, 2012. Invitation of guest speaker Marie-Claire Blais at UML, MA
As part of the “week of Francophonie”, celebrated in New England (March 19-25), public
reading by internationally acclaimed Quebec author Marie-Claire Blais entitled “A Vision of our
Tormented Times.” Sponsored by the Délégation du Québec in Boston and by the Department of
Cultural Studies at UMass Lowell. Open to the whole community.
March 11, 2011. Invitation of guest speaker Kim Thúy at UML, MA
As part of the “week of Francophonie”, celebrated in New England (March 10-25), Quebec
author Kim Thúy, recipient of the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award (Canada), the
Grand Prix RTL/Lire 2010 (France) and the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Montréal 2010
(Canada) for her novel Ru, delivered a paper entitled “Being in Love with French.” Sponsored by
the Délégation du Québec in Boston and by the Department of Cultural Studies at UMass
Lowell. Open to the whole community.

Other Service Activities (selected)
- Faculty Senate (2013-2014)
- Gen. Ed Coordinating Committee (2013-now)
- Member of the FAHSS Research Advisory Committee (2013-now)
- Coordinator of the French program at UML (daytime and online)
- Organization of two trips to Saint Georges de Beauce, Québec, with UML students
studying French (April 2010 and April 2011)
- Director of International Partnership with partner institution CEGEP Beauce-Appalaches
in Québec (2011-now)
Current Memberships to Professional Organizations
- American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
- French Cultural Center/ Alliance française of Boston
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- New England Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
- Société de linguistique romane