Faculty Profile
Jane Moss
e-mail: jmmoss@colby.edu
tel.: 872-3151
office: Lovejoy 322
Jane Moss is the Robert E. Diamond
Professor of French and Women's Studies. After receiving her A.B. from
Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from Yale University, she taught at a
small college in Wisconsin before coming to Colby College in 1979. She
started the Women's Studies and Colloquia series and organized annual
lectures for twelve years in addition to serving two two-year terms as
Director of Women's Studies. She was also the first organizer of the Maine
Women's Studies Conference, now an annual event. Her numerous articles
on French and Quebec theater have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly
journals including The American Review of Canadian Studies, Quebec
Studies, Theatre Research International, Mosaic, Canadian Literature,
Signs, Atlantic, Modern Language Studies, The French Review, L'Annuaire
théâtral, Dalhousie French Studies, and University
of Toronto Quarterly. She has also contributed essays to books on
Canadian literature, Quebec theater, and Francophone Women writers. She
was president of the American Council for Quebec Studies from 1992 to
1995 and is Managing Editor of Quebec Studies. She also serves
on the editorial board of The American Review of Canadian Studies,
The French Review, International Journal of Canadian Studies,
and Globe: revue des études québécoises
She has been elected a Delegate member of the Modern Language Association,
and member of the Executive Committee for the Division of Francophone
Literatures. She has also been elected Vice-President of the Association
internationale des études québécoises and awarded
the Prix du Québec in 2002 by the Quebec Government. Professor
Moss will be a visiting scholar at Duke University, spring 2005.