Faculty
JOANNE
M. MCKEOWN
Associate Professor of French
Room 103 Comenius Hall
(610) 861-1399
mejpl01@moravian.edu
EDUCATION: B.A., Niagara University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
INTERESTS: She teaches all levels of French language, and literature of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and is the Supervisor of foreign language students pursuing certification in secondary education. She spent the 1985-86 academic year at the Université d’Orléans, and accompanied students to Poitiers and Paris for a summer program of study in 1992. She is currently translating for publication an 1840 French manuscript written in the Haute-Savoie, a region to which she has traveled several times to conduct related research. Other areas of research include the relationship between the spa culture in southern France and literary output, foreign language pedagogy, and Madeleine de Guimard, a celebrated salon hostess, dancer and patroness of the arts in 18th century Paris.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Dr. McKeown is the Primary Translator and Editor of an annotated translation of an 1838/9 monograph by Antoine Despine, Despine and the Evolution of Psychology: Historical and Medical Perspectives on Dissociative Disorders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). She also has a book chapter forthcoming: "Feminine Witness to the Power of the Soul over the Mind: Four Novels of Enlightenment France” in French Women Authors: the Significance of the Spiritual. Co-editors: Drs. Kelsey Haskett and Deborah Sullivan-Trainor.
WEBSITE: http://home.moravian.edu/users/frlang/mejmd01/webpage/