Susan Edmundson

Susan Edmundson grew up in Chicago and attended Northwestern University. After completing her doctoral dissertation entitled Aesthetics and Politics: Film Culture and the Extreme Right in France 1930-1944 at New York University, she moved with her husband to Knoxville. Edmundson has been at the University of Tennessee since 1997 and has taught courses at all levels, from the 100-level through the 400-level. Her main interests are cultural and political history, contemporary French culture, and online teaching and assessment. She developed the French hybrid program and the summer online program and was faculty leader for UT in Paris Summer Program in 2016. Edmundson has served as Interim French Language Program Director several times in the past.

Courses taught at the University of Tennessee

• French 111 (Elementary)
• French 150 (Intensive Elementary)
• French 211 (Intermediate)
• French 211 online (Intermediate)
• French 212 (Intermediate)
• French 217/218 (Honors Intermediate)
• French 223 (Intensive Intermediate)
• French 300 (Grammar)
• French 301 and 302 (French for Reading—for graduate students in other programs)
• French 333 (Intermediate Grammar and Composition)
• French 334 (Intermediate Conversation and Phonetics)
• French 353 (Aspects of French Literature)
• French 353 (Introduction to French Literary Analysis)
• French 431 (Highlights of French Civilization) Franco-French conflicts from 1789-1968
• French 432 (Contemporary French Culture) 
• French 450 (Special Topics) French Cinema and Politics in the 1930s

Presentations

• Getting Started Teaching Online Courses. MIFLC. October 5, 2018.
• What Works:  Activities for First Year French Hybrid Courses at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers’ Association Conference, Cool Springs Tennessee, November 3, 2012.
•  Un Hybride de notre création: An Overview of the French Hybrid Program, Spring Technology Roundtable, Language Resource Center and Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, March 10 2011.
• Led workshop on TPRS Storytelling for Knox County high school teachers, February 21, 2005.
• A Model for Renewal: American Film and the French Film Critics of the Extreme Right 1930-1940, Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 2004.
•  Guest Speaker.  Professor Les Essif’s Course entitled Contemporary French Culture.  French Intellectuals and Politics, November 4, 2002.
• Standardized Product or Source of Renewal?:  American Films and French Critics of the Extreme Right in the 1930s, Modern Language Association Conference, San Diego, California, December 1994.
• A Cultural Ideal: René Clair and the French Right in the 1930s, Colloquium, La Maison Française, New York University, March 24, 1994.
• Confusing Autobiography with World History: A Reading of Drieu La Rochelle, Colloquium, La Maison Française, New York University, April 3, 1994.

Phone: 865-974-7002

Email: sedmund2@utk.edu

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