Suellen Diaconoff - Curriculum Vitae

Suellen DIACONOFF Colby College Department of French and Italian Waterville, ME 04901 Office phone: 207-859-4651 Office Fax: 207-859-4405 e-mail: s_diacon@colby.edu
Education Ph.D., Indiana University, 1978, French Language and Literature Major Concentration: Eighteenth Century B.A., Willamette University, 1962, French
Teaching Experience Colby College Professor of French, 2000- Associate Professor of French, 1990-1992 Assistant Professor of French, 1986-1989 Case Western Reserve University, Assistant Professor of French, 1981-1986; resigned to accept position at Colby North Carolina State University, Visiting Instructor, 1980-1981 Tufts University, Instructor (part-time), 1978-1980
Other Professional Service Outside Evaluator to Departments of French, Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, 2002 Director of African Studies Program, Colby College, semester I 2001 Chair, Department of French, Colby College, 1994-1996; 1997-2001 Director, U.S. Department of Education grant ($99,075) for interdisciplinary project at Colby College, “Focus on Francophone Women in Africa and the Caribbean,” 1999-2002 Faculty Principal, Mellon grant ($24,500) to support faculty travel and development to Africa and Caribbean, Colby College, 2002-2003 Director, Language Resource Center, Colby College, 1993-1996 Director, Colby-in-Caen Junior Year Abroad, 1991-1992 Board of Directors, Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1994-1997
Honors Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award, Morocco, January-June 2003 CBB Technology award, 1998, and CBB Technology summer stipend, 1999 Humanities Travel and Research grants, Colby College, 2003, 1996, 1994, 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel-to-Collections Grant, summer 1985 School of Criticism and Theory, tuition scholarship, Northwestern University, summer 1983 American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., June-December 1982
Publications. See separate listing
Professional Memberships American Institute for Maghrib Studies Modern Language Association American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies American Association of Teachers of French
Post-Doctoral Academic Work and Professional Development Research in Morocco, summer 2000, January 2001, January-June 2003 Research in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale and the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 1996, 1991, 1987, 1985, 1982 CALICO Workshops, University of New Mexico, May 1996 IALL Workshops, University of Notre Dame, May 1995 and University of Kansas, May 1993 Mellon Technology Workshop, Middlebury College, June 1994
Service to the College Committees Committee on Promotion and Tenure, 1990-1991, 1993-1995; Subcommittee on Tenure Reconsideration, 1994 Educational Policy Committee, 1989-1991; EPC Subcommittee on Gender-Neutral Language, 1990-1991; EPC Subcommittee on Programs Abroad, 1992-1993 Financial Aid Committee, 1989-1991 Lovejoy Space Committee, 1990-1991 Admissions Committee, 1989-1991 Dean of Faculty Search Committee, 1993-1994 CBB Faculty Steering Committee, Mellon proposal, 1994-1995 Mellon CBB Consortial Grant, Executive and Nominating Committees, 1995 Humanities Division Committee, 1994-1996; 1997-2001 Humanities Planning Committee, 1998-1999 Off-Campus Study Committee, 1995-1996 Chair and Director Chair, Department of French, 1994-1996; 1997-2001 Chair, African Studies Program, semester I 2001 Director, Language Resource Center, 1993-1996 Chair, Task Force of College Planning Committee for Language Resource Center, 1992 Chair, Task Force on Self-Instructional Language Program, 1994-1995 Associate Chair, Romance Languages and Literatures, 1992-1993 Director, Colby in Caen, 1991-1992 Advising First-Year Student advising, every year; Major in French and Majors in International Studies Search Commmittees Department of French, and French and Italian, annual Department of Spanish, 1992-1993 Department of Geology, 1997-1999 Department of History, 2000 Tenure, Promotion, Sixth-Semester Review, Contract Renewal Committees Department of Modern Foreign Languages Tenure Committee, candidate in Japanese, 1991 Department of History Tenure Committee for candidate, 1992-1993 Department of East Asian Studies, First-year Review Committee in Chinese, 1992-1993 Contract Review committees in French, 1992-1993 Contract Review committees in Spanish, 1992-1993, 1994 Sixth-Semester Review in Philosophy, 1994 Sixth-Semester Review in Romance Languages, 1994 Sixth-Semester Review in History, 1996 Sixth-Semester Review in Biology, 1996 Sixth-Semester Review in Spanish, 1996 Department of Economics Tenure Committee for candidate, 1994 Contract Renewal committee in History, 1994 Contract Renewal committee in German and Russian Promotion to Full Professor for candidate in Biology, 2001-2002 Promotion to Full Professor for candidate in French, 2003-2004
Other Coordinator of French, 1989-1991, 1992-1993 Faculty Participant in Overseers’ visit to AV, 1993 Departmental Liaison for Study Abroad, 1995-1996; 1997-2001, 2001-2002 Faculty Speaker representing associate professors at Faculty Dinner, February 1996 CBB Language Fair co-organizer, 1996 Senior Exit interviews, 1994-1995, 1996, 1998-1999, 2001-2002 Faculty mentor to tenure track colleagues in Physics, Art History, Spanish, English Travel to France to review programs abroad, 1996 and 2000 Organizer, Career Night for Students in Foreign Languages, 1998 Fulbright Selection Committee, 1992-1994 Member, Interdisciplinary Studies Division for African Studies Program, 2001 Speaker to Academic Affair Committee for Alumni Council for new African Studies program Member, African Studies Program Advisory Committee, 2001-2002, 2003-2004 Program Chair, African Week, 7-12 April 2002 Travel to Guadeloupe & Martinique to investigate study and internship possibilities, 2002 “Teaming Up: Faculty and Student Research Projects,” “Engage with Colby,” April 2004 (student’s Senior Honors Thesis on women’s literacy programs in Morocco)