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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.


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