Sydney Rice Aboul-Hosn

Department of Comparative Literature
The Pennsylvania State University
444N Burrowes Building
814-863-7383
sra113@psu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Comparative Literature)
The Pennsylvania State University
1998

D.E.A. (Modern French Literature)
Université de Poitiers (France)
1981

Maîtrise (Lettres Modernes)
Université de Poitiers (France)
1978

Licence (Lettres Modernes)
Université de Poitiers (France)
1977

B.A., summa cum laude
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis  1975
(French and German majors; Spanish minor)                         
           
ACADEMIC  EMPLOYMENT

The Pennsylvania State University:
  
1998-present
Full-time senior lecturer, Undergraduate Program Chair,                                       
            Undergraduate Advisor, Honors Advisor
            (Department of Comparative Literature)

1995-present
Coordinator of Undergraduate Recruitment and Advising

1994-present
Coordinator of Graduate TA Pedagogy Course

1986-1995
Instructor/T.A.  (Department of Comparative Literature)

1996-1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001
Teaching Fellow (Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching)                                

Course Development:

Online versions of CMLit. 108 for eLearning, World Campus, and summer sessions.

Career Development for Comparative Literature majors

CMLit. 602: TA Pedagogy

Program Development:

Assisted with development of Integrated B.A./M.A. program in Comparative Literature

Courses Taught:     (Class size range: 25-350 students)
           
Comparative Literature 001 - Masterpieces of Western Literature Through the Renaissance
Comparative Literature 002U – Introduction to Western Literature Since the Renaissance
Comparative Literature 083S – First Year Seminar (Superheroes)
Comparative Literature 108 and 108H - Myths and Mythologies (non-Western)
Comparative Literature 010 - Forms of World Literature
Comparative Literature 100 - Introduction to Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature 101 and 101H - Identity: Race, Gender and Issues of Diversity
Comparative Literature 105 - Literary Humor
Comparative Literature 296 - Career Development for CMLit. Majors
Comparative Literature 502 - Literary Theory
Comparative Literature 400Y - Senior Seminar in Literary Theory
Comparative Literature 602 – TA Pedagogy

Université de Poitiers (France)

Teaching Assistant (language and literature)  - Department of English     1978-1980

AWARDS

Spring 2004
College of the Liberal Arts Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Penn State

               
Fall 2007
Schreyer Honors College Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Penn State  

CONFERENCE  PRESENTATIONS  

“The Feminine Transcendence of Language Through Silence in the Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.”   American Conference on Romanticism, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, October 1994

“Why Doesn’t She Speak?:  The Feminine Rejection of Narration From Poe to Gilman.”  Comparative Literature Luncheon, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1996

Facilitator, Learning Colloquy IV, The Pennsylvania State University, January 9, 1998
Facilitator, Learning Colloquy V, The Pennsylvania State University, January 11, 1999
Facilitator, Learning Colloquy 2000, The Pennsylvania State University, May 30, 2000

PUBLICATIONS

“The ‘Female Reader’ and the Rejection of the Logos:  La Maga as the ‘Central’ Character in Cortázar’s Rayuela.”  Hispanic Journal  16. 2 (Fall 1995):  307-316.

Essay and editorial contributions to The Penn State Teacher II, ed. Enerson, Johnson, Milner and Plank, The Pennsylvania State University,  July 1997.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

English (native speaker)                     Spanish (reading and basic speaking and writing)
French (near-native fluency)               German (reading)
           

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

- Phi Beta Kappa

- Phi Kappa Phi

- Modern Language Association 

- Society for the Study of the Short Story

- American Conference on Romanticism 

- American Comparative LiteratureAssociation

- North American Society for the Study of Romanticism  
   

AREAS OF ACADEMIC SPECIALTIES

-Romanticism, especially French and North American short stories (English and Spanish), with emphasis on the roles of  female characters from narrative and theoretical perspectives.

-Early twentieth century North American (English and Spanish language) narrative structures.

-Dissertation: "Centering" silence and narrative : the feminine response to language in selected short stories of Poe, Payno, Barbey D'Aurevilly, Darío, Gilman, and Bombal

-Non-Western Mythology