Professor of French Emeritus

636 Timber Lane

Nashville, TN 37215

dan.m.church@vanderbilt.edu

Telephone: (615) 292-4816

Please check out your area of interest as indicated below.

• Education
• Academic Experience
• Publications
• Theatrical Experience
• Technology in Education

Education

Wake Forest College, September 1957-June 1961, B.A. (cum laude) in French

Middlebury College French School, Summer 1961.

Middlebury College Graduate School of French in France, September 1961-June 1962, M.A. (August 1962).

University of Wisconsin (Madison), September 1962-August 1965, Ph.D. (January 1968), major in French, minor in Comparative Literature, Dissertation title: "Search for Modern Tragedy: A Study of the Theater of Albert Camus" (directed by Professor Germaine Brée).

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Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor of French, Antioch College, 1965-67
• Assistant Professor of French, Vanderbilt University, 1967-70
• Associate Professor of French, Vanderbilt University, 1970-2001
• Professor of French Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, 2001-
• Director, Vanderbilt-in-France, 1974-76
• Director, Workshop on the Quest Authoring System for computer-assisted instruction, Vanderbilt, May 1986
• Director, Mellon Regional Faculty Development Seminar, "Recent Developments in French Theater," Vanderbilt, June 1986
• Director, Language Laboratory, Vanderbilt, 1988-96

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Publications

• "Père Ubu: The Creation of a Literary Type," Drama Survey, IV, No. 3 (Winter 1965), pp. 233-243.
• "Le Malentendu: Search for Modern Tragedy," French Studies, XX (January 1966), pp. 33-46.
• "Structure and Dramatic Technique in Gide's Saül and Le Roi Candaule," PMLA, LXXXIV, No. 6 (October 1969), pp. 1639-1643.
• Review of Jacques Kraemer, Splendeur et misère de Minette la bonne Lorraine, The French Review, XLIV, No. 3 (February 1971), pp. 643-644.
• Review of René Ehni, Super-Positions, Eugénie Kopronime (Théâtre III), The French Review, XLIV, No. 5 (April 1971), pp. 958-959.
• Review of Arthur Adamov, Si l'été revenait, The French Review, XLV, No. 1 (October 1971), pp. 180-181.
• Review of Rémo Forlani, Au bal des chiens, The French Review, XLV, No. 3 (February 1972), pp. 697-698.
• Review of John Cruickshank, ed., French Literature and Its Background, Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century; Lucile F. Becker, Louis Aragon; Anna Balakian, André Breton: Magus of Surrealism; and G. W. Ireland, André Gide: A Study of his Creative Writings, in Modern Fiction Studies, XVII, No. 4 (Winter 1971-72), pp. 624-629.
• Review of Elie Pressman, La Chasse, The French Review, XLV, No. 6 (May 1972), pp. 1183-1184.
• Review of Jean Rambaud, Le Cirque à Jules, The French Review, XLVIII, No. 4 (March 1975), pp. 803-804.
• Review of François Rivière, Fabriques, The French Review, LII, No. 2 (December 1978), p. 185.
• Collaborator, A Critical Bibliography of French Literature, Vol. VI: The Twentieth Century, D. A. Alden and R. A. Brooks, editors. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1980.
• Review of Serge Bramly, Un Piège à lumière, The French Review, LIV, No. 1 (October 1980), pp. 188-189.
• "State Subsidies and Militant Regionalism in the Contemporary French Theater," Contemporary French Civilization, VI, No. 3 (Spring 1982), pp. 342-360.
• In collaboration with Franklin Brooks, "The Case History of a Création Collective: La Vie de Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière," The French Review, LVI, No. 1 (October 1982), pp. 64-76.
• Review of Anne-Marie Gourdon, Théâtre, public, perception; and Philippa Wehle, Le Théâtre populaire selon Jean Vilar; Contemporary French Civilization, IX, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 1985), pp. 120-124.
• "Activist Theater in Minority Agricultural Milieux: California's El Teatro Campesino and Provence's Lo Teatre de la Carriera," in Myths and Realities of Contemporary French Theater: Comparative Views, ed. Patricia M. Hopkins and Wendell M. Aycock (Proceedings of the Comparative Literature Symposium, 17), Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1985, pp. 57-70.
• "Le Théâtre de Camus: vingt-cinq ans après" [summary of paper], in Albert Camus: une pensée, une oeuvre (Colloque de Lourmarin, 1er-août 1985). Cadenet: Rencontres Méditerranéennes de Lourmarin, 1986, pp. 133-137.
• "Textbook Specific Computer Exercises for Elementary French Students," The Modern Language Journal, LXX, 3 (Autumn 1986), pp. 251-257.
• Review of Quest Authoring System, Bulletin for Computer-Assisted Instruction in Foreign Languages, III, 1 (October 1986), pp. 2-5.
• Review of Evelyn Ehrlich, Cinema of Paradox: French Filmmaking Under the German Occupation, Contemporary French Civilization, XI, 1 (Fall/Winter 1987), pp. 123-125.
• "On the Use of Carrots and Sticks in CALL," CALICO Journal, VI, 1 (September 1988), pp. 37-45.
• Review of Private Tutor, CALICO Journal, VII, 1 (September 1989), pp. 92-96. (And somewhat different version in Computers and the Humanities, XXIII, 6 [December 1989], pp. 523-526.)
• Review of Tornado, Computers and the Humanities, XXIV, 4 (August 1990), pp. 310-313.
• Review of David Hardisty and Scott Windeatt, CALL (Resource Books for Teachers, Alan Maley, ed., Oxford University Press), CALICO Journal, VII, 4 (June 1990), pp. 92-95.
• "Interactive Audio for Foreign-Language Learning," Literary & Linguistic Computing, V, 2, pp. 191-194.
• Collaborator, Theatrical Directors: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. John W. Frick and Stephen Vallillo. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. (Articles on André Barsacq, pp. 19-20; Gaston Baty, pp. 21-22; and Roger Planchon, pp. 314-316.)
• Review of GramDef French, CALICO Journal, XV (1998): 1-3, pp. 151-156, http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/others/calico/review/gramdef.htm.

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Theatrical Experience

In French:

• Cast, Ghelderode, Christophe Colomb, U. of Wisconsin 1963
• Cast, Sartre, Les Mouches, U. of Wisconsin 1965
• Director, Ghelderode, Le Ménage de Caroline, Vanderbilt 1968
• Director, Arrabal, Pique-nique en campagne, Vanderbilt 1969
• Director & Designer, La Farce de Maître Pierre Pathelin, Vanderbilt 1970
• Designer & Technical Director, Ionesco, La Cantatrice chauve, Vanderbilt 1971
• Director & Designer, Beckett, En attendant Godot, Vanderbilt 1972 & 1983
• Director & Designer, Romains, Knock, Vanderbilt 1973
• Assistant Director, Dragún, Histoires à être racontées, Théâtre de la Commune d'Aubervilliers (state-subsidized professional theater in Paris suburb) 1974
• Cast, Designer & Director, La Vie de Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière, Vanderbilt 1977 and 1992
• Director & Designer, Molière, George Dandin, Vanderbilt 1977
• Director & Designer, L'Humour à la Belle Epoque (program of 5 one-act plays by Courteline & Feydeau), Vanderbilt 1979
• Director & Designer, Vian, Les Bâtisseurs d'empire, Vanderbilt 1980
• Director, Musset, Les Caprices de Marianne, Vanderbilt 1981
• Director & Designer, Confortès, Le Marathon, Vanderbilt 1982
• Cast & Director, Kundera, Jacques et son maître, Vanderbilt 1987
• Technical Director & Designer, Farces d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (program of 3 one-act plays), Vanderbilt 1988
• Cast, Tardieu par deux (program of 2 one-act plays), Vanderbilt 1988
• Director & Designer, Giraudoux, Intermezzo, Vanderbilt 1990
• Director & Editor, Vian, Cinémassacre (video production), Vanderbilt 1994
• Director, Grumberg, Rixe and Ionesco, La Cantatrice chauve, Vanderbilt 1995
• Adapter & Director, La Tragédie de Carmen et José, Vanderbilt 1997

In English:

• Cast, Anouilh, The Cavern, Vanderbilt 1969
• Cast, Pinter, The Birthday Party, Circle Players 1970
• Cast, Hester & Apolinar, Your Own Thing, Circle 1971
• Cast, Coward, Design for Living, Circle 1971
• Director, Feiffer, Little Murders, Circle, 1971
• Designer & Technical Director, Ionesco, The Bald Soprano, Vanderbilt 1971
• Cast, Anderson, I Never Sang for my Father, Circle 1972
• Lighting Designer, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Circle 1972
• Cast, Shaw, Don Juan in Hell, Vanderbilt 1972
• Translator & Director, Molière, The Imaginary Invalid, Circle 1973
• Producer, Coward, Hay Fever, Circle 1973
• Cast, Jones, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia, Ensemble Theater Company 1976
• Cast, Stirling, The Day the Sky Went to School, Nashville Family & Children's Service 1976
• Co-Translator, Director & Designer, Buzzati, Your Particular Case, Ensemble Theater Company 1977
• Cast, Bleacher Bums, Poverty Playhouse 1982
• Cast, various productions of audio cassettes for Knowledge Products (dialects and foreign accents) 1990-1997
• Cast, Heine, The First Glorious Mystery, After Hours Theater at Bongo Java 1997

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Technology in Education

I have been a member of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) and attended almost all of its annual Symposia since 1985. I have been Chairman of the Courseware Development Special Interest Group and was a member of the ad-hoc Advisory Board that drafted CALICO's first constitution and by-laws.

Papers and Presentations at Conferences:

• Presentation, "Text Specific 'Workbook' Exercises on the Computer: Pros and Cons," Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association, Nashville, November 1985.
• Paper, "New Trends and Old Truths in Modern and Classical Languages," Emerging Trends: A Conference on Academic Challenges in Math, Science and Foreign Language, sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Education, Nashville, June 1987.
• Paper, "On the Use of Carrots and Sticks in CALL," CALICO Symposium, Salt Lake City, February 1988.
• Paper, "Interactive Audio for Foreign-Language Learning," Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing / Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference, Toronto, June 1989.
• Paper and software demonstration, "Interactive Audio Exercises for Foreign-Language Learning," Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association, Knoxville, October 1989. Also presented at the Stones River Conference for Language Studies, Murphreesboro, March 1990, at Notre Dame University, April 1990 and at the CALICO Symposium, Atlanta, April 1991.
• Paper, "Providing Useful Feedback in Interactive Audio Exercises," CALICO Symposium, Flagstaff, Arizona, March 1994.
• Paper, "Interactive Hypermedia as a Publishing Medium," and software demonstration, "From Novel Parody to Film Parody: Queneau to Malle,"CALICO Symposium, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May-June 1996.
• Invited lecture/demonstration, "Hypermedia Courseware for Advanced Students," The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, February 1997.

Computer Software:

• "Computerized Workbook to Accompany Rendez-vous (Random House)," 1984-1986.
• "Proportional Grade Maintenance Program," 1987. This is a DOS program for maintaining grades.
• "Interactive-Audio Exercises to Accompany C'est à dire (Heinle & Heinle)" (with K. M. Kasongo), 1991.
• "Movie Talk: An Introduction to the Vocabulary of Film Study" (interactive-video program based on laser disc of Citizen Kane),
• "Interactive Audio Exercises to Accompany Premiers Echanges (Heinle & Heinle)," 1993-94.
• "CinéMots: Introduction au vocabulaire du cinéma" (interactive-video program based on laser disc of La Grande Illusion), 1994. (This is the French-language version of "Movie Talk.")
• "Rixe" (interactive reading program based on the one-act play by Jean-Claude Grumberg), 1995.
• "Introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet" (interactive-audio program based on D'Accord, John Wiley & Sons), 1995.
• "Computerized Phonetic Transcription Exercises" (based on D'Accord; John Wiley& Sons), 1996.
  This is a TookBook-based series of programs involving building phonetic transcriptions, through multiple-choice questions, of selected dialogues from the phonetics textbook D'Accord. The student may print out the completed transcription once he/she achieves the threshold score of 75%.
• "From Novel Parody to Film Parody: From Queneau to Malle" (interactive multimedia article), 1996.
  This is an interactive multimedia article or study guide, with Video for Windows clips to illustrate the various points made about Louis Malle's film adaptation of Raymond Queneau's novel.

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Last modified on January 16th, 2003