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St. Michael’s College, Carr Hall, 313
81 St. Mary Street
Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
University of Toronto
marie.visoi@utoronto.ca
http://www.french.utoronto.ca
AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING-RELATED ACTIVITIES
Marie-Anne Visoi has developed and taught courses on French Cultural Studies, Advanced French and Second Language Education, The Western Tradition, The 20th Century French Novel. Her pedagogical research has extended into the integration of culture in the second language curriculum and the development of oral and written proficiency through multimodal assessment and experiential learning. Between 2012-2015 she was awarded funding for three teaching projects: designing and teaching the online course FCS292H1S - French Cultural Studies (Online Undergraduate Course Initiative Program); planning and coordinating “Experiential Learning in French for Arts and Science Undergraduate Students” (Curriculum Renewal Initiative Fund), and “Developing Linguistic Proficiency, Cultural Competence and Peer Interaction through Blended Teaching and Multimodal Learning Experiences in French” (Fund for Online Innovations in Learning). Her scholarly research interests also include textual criticism relating to world literature, reader-response theories and cultural studies. She is the author of "Transgression, Stylistic Variation and Narrative Discourse in the Twentieth Century Novel", Cambridge Scholars Publishing; “A Thematic Approach to French Cultural Studies: Love, Sex and Desire in French Literature and Cinema”, Universal Publishers; “Reading Nara’s Diary in “Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing; “Parody in the Postmodernist Novel: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore”, Modern Language Studies.