Clare J. Tufts, Professor of the Practice of Romance Studies, French, and Director of the French Language Program

Contact Info:

Office Location:	106 Languages Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3126, (919) 660-3193
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• FRENCH 414.01, COMICS/CULTURE: IMAGES Synopsis

  Perkins 2-065, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as VMS 311.01)

Education:

PhD in French Literature	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	1982
MA in French Literature	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	1974

Specialties:

French
Linguistics and Theories of Pedagogy
Film, Media and Visual Studies
Performance Studies

Research Interests:

Current projects: Propaganda in Children's Comics in France 1939-1945

Tufts is currently working on the revision of her co-authored textbook (Sur le vif) for publication in its sixth edition (Heinle/Cengage), as well as a book on the French comic artist Vincent Krassousky.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Clare Tufts and Hannelore Jarausch, Sur le vif, in textbook, 5th edition (November, 2009), Heinle/Cengage Learning [productOverview.do]
2. Clare Tufts, Etienne Davodeau's Reportage of Reality in Les Mauvaises gens, edited by Laurence Grove, Mark McKinney, Ann Miller, European Comic Art, vol. 1 no. 1 (Spring, 2008), pp. 37-55, Liverpool University Press
3. Sur le vif, 4th (2006), Heinle / Thomson (Copyright 2006; published March 2005.)
4. Handbook for Instructors of French (annually, 1987-2008)
5. Vincent Krassousky -- Nazi Collaborator or Naive Cartoonist?, International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 6 no. 1 (Spring, 2004)

Clare Tufts received her PhD in French literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is co-author of an intermediate-level French textbook that is being revised for its sixth edition (2012). She has published chapters in edited volumes on political French theater and on propaganda in children's comics in France, and articles on language acquisition and pedagogy, the modern political theatre in France, Alfred Jarry, and political propaganda in French cartoons. She is also the author of a computer tutorial for French grammar review. Professor Tufts' research interests include second language acquisition, linguistics, modern French theatre, and popular culture.