Born 2-11-46 - Married, 3 children
118 Ponderosa Circle - Martin, Tennessee 38237
Tel.(731) 587-6562 - e-mail: bobp@utm.edu
Teaching Experience
1979-present
University of Tennessee-Martin (Martin, Tennessee)
Professor of French and Member of Graduate Faculty (Department of Modern Foreign Languages): all levels of French language, literature and civilization. Advised French & undeclared majors. Served on 18 university committees (chairing 3). Began as Assistant Professor (promoted in 1984 and 1989). Administrative Experience: French syllabus coordinator, Professor of Record in team-taught Title II program, initiator of major curriculum changes, technical liaison and departmental webmaster, designer and current director of the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center, director of the Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project and of the Andy Holt Virtual Library.
Committee work history: University Library Committee (chair), 2 terms Faculty Senate & Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, University Microcomputer Committee, first University Web Committee, Vice Chancellor's Web Site Task Force, Committee on Committees (chair), International Students Committee, departmental search committees (chair)
1986-1987
United States Military Academy (West Point, New York)
Visiting Professor (Dept. of Foreign Languages): director of several upper-division French language &
literature courses, seminar on François Villon, pedagogical consultant (teaching methods,
library use, CALL).
1976-1979
Baylor University (Waco, Texas)
Lecturer in French (Department of Modern Foreign Languages): beginning and intermediate French.
Administrative Experience: beginning French syllabus, developed my own visual-aided first-year
course.
1971-1975
University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Teaching Fellow (Department of French and Italian): French I & II. Administrative Assistant (Center
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies): public relations and co-planner of undergraduate certificate
program.
1969-1971
Westchester Academy (High Point, North Carolina)
French Instructor, language lab consultant (4 levels), track coach.
1968-1969
Parry McCluer High School (Buena Vista, Virginia)
French Instructor (2 levels), Freshman English Instructor, track coach
EDUCATION
1964-1968: Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, VA) - B.A. in French
1968-1971: Middlebury College Summer Language Schools (Middlebury, VT) - M.A. in
French
1971-1977: University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA) - Ph.D. in French
4-year scholarship & teaching fellowship. Dissertation: "François Villon's Lais
: A Best-Text Edition", director: Professor Barbara N. Sargent-Baur.
Memberships
ACTFL, AATF (current national Vice President), International Congress on Medieval Studies, MLA, TFLTA, International Association for Language Learning Technology. Professional listservs: FLTEACH, LLTI, MEDIEVALE, MEDTEXTL, OZFRENCH, UTWEBFORUM.
Honors
Member Pi Delta Phi and Phi Kappa Phi. Middlebury: 1st award in Advanced French Conversation and
the "Prix de l'Amicale". USMA: "The Commander's Public Service Award". Biography in
Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who in America.
Named "Associé de Recherche et de Pédagogie" for project sponsored by a French
Government agency and The University of Illinois: "Le Centre Culturel Virtuel". Recipient of the
Jacqueline Elliott Award (TFLTA) for service and research. My internet work has been featured in
numerous publications, including the January 1997 issue of the American Board of Education Journal,
and an article in an issue of the Agora Market Place newsletter (1996), The September 1997 issue of
the YAHOO Back to school electronic newsletter. Invited keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the
Northwest TennesseeSchool Librarians Association (April 1995). Invited speaker at Vanderbilt
University (February 1997), Keynote Speaker for the Louisiana Association of Foreign Language
Teachers meeting in Lafayette (April 1997). TennesseeBob's Famous French Links received
endorsements in the January 1997 issue of the American Board of Education Journal and the September
1997 Back to School Yahoo! Educational issue, Café des Poètes (Paris' best-known art &
literary café). Named to state-wide planning commission for the Tennessee Virtual University
(1999). I have received many prestigious endorsements for my web sites.
Selected Editing and Consulting
Managing Editor, The Roles and Images of Women in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, Univ. of Pittsburgh Publications in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 3
(Pittsburgh, 1975). Editor, Société François Villon,
Bulletin (1985-present). Editorial consultant for P. Hagiwara and F. de Rocher,
Thème et Variations: An Introduction to French Language and
Culture, 4th Edition (New York: Wiley, 1989). Consultant for W. McDonald, ed.
The Current State of Research in Fifteenth-Century Literature. Germania-
Romania (Göppinger, 1986). Pedagogical consultant for Gessler Educational Software
(New York, 1984), for Dyersburg (TN) State Community College's "French in Action" program and
other experimental first-year programs in French, focus group member and review editor for Holt
Rinehart and Winston multimedia production (1994-1995). French-language consultant for
Carnegie Magazine (1975) and for Journal of
Comparative Family Studies (1989). Consultant for graduate programs in French
as well as faculty research in Villon Studies, Reader for SELECTA: Journal of the
PNCFL, for multimedia pedagogy column in Hispania .
Consultant and translator for international firms. Internet Computing workshops for Loyola College
(Baltimore-1995) and Augusta College (1996). Consultant for Edupage en français (the web
site for a French discussion list), for the Colegio Nacional José Pedro Varela (National
Uraguayan Education Network). List manager for UTMspannet and Francophone News and Information
Net (internet lists). On a contributor's board for Adminet (Paris) and
Navigateur Culturel (Ottawa). Consultant for the AATF, the Services Cultureles
de l'Ambassade de France and TV5 Internationale, Weakley County Schools (1997), Harvard Graduate
Program (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures) - 1997, Holt, Rinehart & Winston
(1996-present), Archipelago (1997), Associated Colleges of the South (1997), Virginia
Commonwealth University (1997), keynote speaker for the Louisiana Foreign Language Teachers
Association (1997), Library of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,University of Geneva
(1997), grant evaluator for SUNY LxCSelect group (1998) named to Technology Advisory Board at
Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1997). Computer consultant for the Tennessee Center of Excellence in
Science and Mathematics Education (1999), Tennessee Virtual University (1999). Educational
multimedia product consultant for the Univsité d'Orléans (1999 & 2000), the same for
Northwestern University's Internef (1999), and for "Thinkronize" in 2000. Web and activity consultant for Mid-Continent Consortium for International Education (2001 to present). Consultant for Consultant for Odana Editions & Bloomfield Galleries in Bungendore New South Wales, Australia (March 2002) UTM Center for Global Studies (2002 to present), The-Orb: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies (2003), University of California at Berkeley Library, Colorado State Library (2003).
PUBLICATIONS
"The Use of Visuals in the First-Year Foreign-Language Class (with Examples Applicable to French)."
The Baylor Educator, 4, No. 1 (Spring 1979): 40-46.
"François Villon's Testament and the Poetics of Transformation."
Fifteenth-Century Studies, 11 (1985): 71-83.
Rev. of "Un engin si soutil". Guillaume de Machaut et l'écriture au
XIVe siècle, by Jacqueline Cerquiglini. Speculum,
62, No. 4 (October1987): 914-16.
"The Current State of Villon Studies: Parts I-III." Fifteenth-Century
Studies, 14 (1988):129-50.
"The Current State of Villon Studies: Part IV." Fifteenth-Century Studies,
15 (1989): 159-68.
François Villon: A Bibliography. Garland Medieval
Bibliographies, 3. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1990 [534 pages].
"The Current State of Villon Studies: Part V." Fifteenth-Century Studies,
16 (1990): 199-213.
Rev. of De Villon à Villon. -1- Le Lais François Villon. Ms
Arsenal 3523: Introduction édition, glossaire, edited by Giuseppe Di
Stefano.Speculum, 65, No.4 (October 1990):975-76.
"Textual Orality-Oral Textuality: Patterns of Ambiguity in François Villon's
Testament ." Eds. William C. McDonald & Guy Mermier. The
Medieval Text. Methods and Hermaneutics: A Volume of Essays in Honor of Edelgard E.
DuBruck . 291-98. Detroit: Fifteenth-Century Symposium, 1990 [Fifteenth-
Century Studies , 17].
"The Current State of Villon Studies: Part VII" Fifteenth-Century
Studies, 18 (1991): 187-200.
Robert Peckham and Goetz Seifert. "Wolf Biermann's 'Ballade auf den Dichter François Villon'
[abstract]." Tennessee Philological Bulletin, 28 (1991): 47-
48.
Rev. of Brothers of Dragons: Job Dolens and François
Villon, by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur. Fifteenth-Century
Studies, 20 (1993): 423-26.
"The Current State of Villon Studies: Part VII" Fifteenth-Century
Studies, 20 (1993): 247-57.
"Dark Laughter in the Chambers of the King: François Villon in America."
Medievalism in North America. Studies in Medievalism, 6. Ed.
Kathleen Verduin. 123-42. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994.
"The Current State of Villon Studies: Part IX." Fifteenth-Century
Studies, 21 (1995): 193-208.
"Chansons en cyberespace: Internet Documents in our French Classes." Echo:
Newsletter of the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association 28, No.
2 ((Spring 1995): 24-27.
"A World-Wide Web Start-up in L2 Language and Culture" Foreign
Language Notes 38, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 10-11.
"The Current State of Villon Studies: Part IX." Fifteenth-Century Studies,
22 (1996): 141-60.
"Current State of Villon Studies: Part XI." Fifteenth-Century Studies
23 (1997): 258-78.
"A Virtual TFLTA Presents Itself to the Whole World." Echo: Newsletter of the
Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association 31, No. 1 (Spring 1998):
42-43.
Web provider and web concept for Portes ouvertes (Haggstrom, Frommer, Jones, Bunting, Patenotte). Orlando, FL: Harcourt Publishers, 1998 (now distributed by Thompson/Heinle)
"Synom au royaume de France" (T784): A Proposal for Villon's Electronic Future in France and
Beyond." In Jane Taylor and Michael Freeman, eds. François Villon at Oxford: The
Drama and the Text. 331-42. Faux Titre, 165. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press,
1999.
"A Proverb Site Gathers no Mouse: Web Learning at the Fount of French Wisdom." Echo:
Newsletter of the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association 33, No.
1 (Spring 2000): 28-30.
"Impressing Shania, or Why Study a Foreign Language in Tennessee?." Echo: Biannual
Journal of the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association 34, No. 1
(Winter 2001): 26-29.
Rev. of François Villon in His Works - The Villan's Tale , by
Michael Freeman. French Studies 56, no. 2 (April 2002): 224-25 .
"The Andy Holt Virtual Library: Made in Tennessee to Bring You the World."Echo: Biannual
Journal of the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association 36, No. 1
(Winter 2003): 19-20.
"Institutional, Public and Individual Learning Dynamics of the Andy Holt Virtual Library." In the 2003 Conference Proceedings - Eighth Annual Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/2003/presentations/124.html
"A la Recherch d'un Villon perdu: Pour une histoire de sa réception au XVIIIe siècle." to appear as a critical essay in François Villon et ses lecteurs. Cahiers du XVe Siècle. Paris: Champion, 2004.
"'éclaicies' defined." will appear in a future issue of The Forum - Biannual newsletter of Phi Sigma Iota (International Foreign Language Honor Society)
UN-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS IN Société François
Villon, Bulletin and others:
Rev. of Rythme, dualité et création poétique dans
l'|uvre de François Villon, by Teodosio Vertone, SFVB, 2 (Spring 1986):
4-5.
Rev. of Villon: Poems, by John Fox, Ibid., p. 5.
Rev. of Le Testament Villon, Le Lais et les Poèmes Variés . . .
Index des mots, index des noms propres, index analytique, by Jean Rychner
and Albert Henry. SFVB , 3, No. 1 (Spring 1987): 5-7.
Rev. of De Villon à Villon. -1- Le Lais François Villon. Ms
Arsenal 3523: introduction, édition, glossaire, edited by Giuseppe Di
Stefano. SFVB , 5, No. 1 (Spring 1989): 8-9.
Rev. of The Quest for Equivalence: On Translating Villon, by
Margaret Jennifer Kewley Draskau. Ibid., 9-10.
Rev. of Je suis François Villon, by Marcel Jullian.
SFVB, 6, No. 1 (Spring 1990): 10.
Rev. of François Villon. Poésies Complètes,
ed. Claude Thiry. SFVB, 9, No. 1(1993): 9-10.
Rev. of François Villon. Complete Poems, ed and tr.. Barbara N.
Sargent-Baur. SFVB, 11, No. 1(1996): 10-11.
"The Mercury Project." In La Visiocommunication à
l'Université d'Orléans. [script and one minute internet
demonstration in a 31 minute educational film].
The above selection of web sites from among 250 pages I have authored or co-authored is presented
for the sake of the variety in the topics and interests portrayed. Some of the campus Globe-Gate sites
are endorsed by many school systems, and national government ministries as important homework
resources, while others primarily serve the interests of teachers, scholars, research organizations or
language professionals. Endorsements include organizations like MERLOT, Schoolzone, AATF, the Bibliothè Nationale de France, the French Ministry of Education, MEDTEXTL, FLTEACH, The Orb (online reference book for medieval studies), Bullfinch's Mythology, Contemporary Poetry Review, the Italian Ministry of Labor, Homeschool.net, Knowledge Network, L'Académie de Lyon, Knowledge Network, Infomine, C-gate.net, the Librarians' Index to the Internet, The Australian Federation of Modern Languge Teachers Associations, L'Encyclopédie de l'Agora, and many more. Two of my sites are indexed along with books in Worldcat of OCLC's Forst Search. Here are two positive French reviews of my sites
NEMLA (March 1979), SCMLA (1979, 1994, 1995),Mountain Interstate Foreign Language
Conference (October 1981, 1983, 1986, 1990), Tennessee Philological Association (February 1982,
1991, 1995), Southeastern Medieval Association (1982, 1984, 1985, 1990, 1991), New College
Conference on Medieval And Renaissance Studies (March 1984, 1990), International Congress on
Medieval Studies (May 1985, 1988, 1996, 1997), Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April
1987, 1989, 1990, 1994), Univ. of Pittsburgh Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Spring
1991 Seminar), International Fifteenth-Century Symposium, in Perpignan, France (July 1990),
Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies Conference, Muncie, IN (October 1991), Bridging
Theory and Practice in the Foreign Language Classroom, at Loyola Col., Baltimore (October 1991),
Tennessee Foreign Language Teacher's Silver Anniversary Conference (November 1992 & 1994),
Medieval Association of the Midwest (September 1992), Plymouth College Medieval Symposium
(March 1993), Medieval Academy of America (April 1994). 3 presentations at ACTFL (November
1996 & 1997, 2004), Louisiana Foreign Languate Teachers Association conference (April 1997), The
American Association of Teachers of French (July 1996, 1998, 2000, 2004), 2 lectures at Vanderbilt Univ.
(1997), 1 bridge videoconference from the campus of Binghamton University to LxSelect campuses of
the SUNY system (October 1998), SUNY LxCSelect campuses lecture on "The Globe-Gate Project"
(October 1998, by bridge videoconference). Opening Foreign-Language Workshop at Stanford
University (September 1998), an invited virtual library lecture at the Statewide Continuing
Education Conference, Renaissance Center in Dickson, TN (October 1999), Title VI "Language Across
the Curriculum" internet workshop leader for the faculty of the University of Toledo (March 2000),
presentation at "La Foire des études françaises" (Toronto, May 2000), invited speaker for 15th and 16th Annual Northwest Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers' Workshop (September 2000 and 2001), keynote speaker
at the Memphis City Schools Foreign Language In-Service Workshop (August 2000), Tennessee Best Practices Showcase for Educational Technology (Knoxville, September 2002), UT Martin Instructional Technology Showcase (Martin, TN in March 2002 and 2003), Mid-South Instrutional Technology Conference (Murphreesboro, TN in April 2001 and 2003), Villon et ses lecteurs: Colloque international (Paris, December 2002), Modern Language Association (December 2003) , numerous other workshops.
Titles of Selected Recent Presentations
Keynote address "MCS Foreign Language Standards and Their Role in an International 'Memphis 2005'," at the annual foreign language and esl teachers' workshop for the Memphis City Schools, the 15th largest district in the nation (August 2000).
"'On the Importance of Knowing French' - One Facet of a Promotional Strategy." Presentation for the AATF Promotion of French Commission at the 73rd Annual AATF Conference (Paris, July 2000).
Presentation (by special invitation), "TennesseeBob's Famous French Links - Site aux découvertes multiples d'une francophonie de plus en plus proche." at the Foire des Etudes Françaises (University of Toronto, May 2000).
"A Tool for Students and Teachers in an Armageddon Budget: Introducing the Andy Holt Virtual Library." Tennessee Best Practices Showcase [for technology in education] (Knoxville, September, 2001).
"A la Recherche d'un Villon Perdu." at Villon et ses lecteurs: Colloque International, in Paris France (December 2002).
"Institutional, Public and Individual Learning Dynamics of the Andy Holt Virtual Library." 8th Annual Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference in Murfreesboro, TN (April 2003). Published in conference proceedings: http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/2003/presentations/124.html
"'Au moins, sera de moy memoire': Reception History and the Société François Villon" presented by invitation at MLA annual convention, San Diego (December 2003).
Leadership
Section organizer at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 1984, 1985). Presider at
the same (May 1984, 1985, 1987), at the Tennessee Philological Association (1980), at the
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (1987, 1994), at the Southeastern Medieval Association
(1990, 1991), at Bridging Theory and Practice in the Foreign Language Classroom (1991).
Professor of Record and curriculum organizer of a Title II program in French 1989). Co-planner of
Northwest Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers' Collaborative (1989-1996 ), site planning
committee for Tennessee Philological Association Conference (1995). Member of AATF National
Telematics Commission (1995-), Promotion of French Commission (1998-), a Tennessee administrator of the "Grand Concours" exam.System nominee for promotion consulting group in planning the Tennessee Virtual University, plus a special role in planning a virtual library (1999). Regular involvement in the planning of the Annual Northwest Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers' Workshop (-2003). Organizer of a section on foreign-language advocacy for ACTFL conference in Chicago (November, 2004).
Grants
NEH Summer Seminar, directed by Prof. Karl D. Uitti in 1983 at Princeton Univ. University of
Tennessee at Martin Faculty Research Grants in 1980, 1984, 1986, 1989. One semester research
leave plus expense grant sponsored by the Hal and Alma Reagan Fund (1990, 1998). UTM Faculty
Development grant for attending ACTFL Oral Proficiency Testing Seminar (1990), Faculty
Development Computer Grant (1992). I have participated in writing many successful grant proposals
for my department at UTM. Sponsorship of the United States Air Force Academy for a WWW project in
1995 and the AATF in 1996, Holt Rinehart & Winston in 1997-2001 . Participation in grant
proposals with fellow commission members in the AATF (1999). University research grant for travel to Paris (2002), for travel in Tennessee (2003), and for technology workshop participation (2003).
Proficiency: ACTFL French Oral Proficiency rating of "Superior" (summer
1989).
Travel: Research summers in France, travel in Québec, brief stop in
Martinique.
Teaching and Research Interests
Integration of the web and CD-based multimedia software into the curriculum, the recognition-
comprehension continuum and the development of viewing proficiency through video realia, training
language specialists for various professions, Medievalism and popular culture, François
Villon.