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Lisa Friedli


Specialty: French and Francophone Studies

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Contact Information

Salem Campus

Address
Smullin 203
900 State Street
Salem  Oregon  97301
U.S.A.
Phone
503-370-6070
503-370-6720 (Fax)
Email
lfriedli@willamette.edu

Biography

Dr. Friedli defended her doctoral dissertation “Transcending the Political: Irène Némirovsky’s Cosmopolitan Account of War and Exile” at the University of Washington in Seattle. She also holds two master’s degrees: one from Portland State University, and one from l’Université d’Avignon. A specialist of transnational literature in French, Dr. Friedli has written, presented and published on francophone writers from Africa, Russia and Japan. She has taught film, literature and media studies courses at universities in Japan, France, Oregon and Washington. Dr. Friedli is also a trained language instructor who enjoys helping students expand their horizons through language learning.

Office Hours

Monday 12:30-1:30, and Wednesday 2:30-3:30

Publications

BOOK CHAPTER “The Media Literacy Deficit in Japan: Exploring the Link Between Digital Citizenship, Cultural Diversity and Critical Thinking.” Peace as a Global Language: Peace and Welfare in the Global and Local Community, Rikkyo University Press, Tokyo, Japan, 2016.

BOOK CHAPTER “L’anti-Soundjata d’Ahmadou Kourouma: Allah n’est pas obligé et l’épopée mandingue dans l’ère de la mondialisation” Ahmadou Kourouma et la géopolitique africaine, Eidôlon, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, France, 2015.

ARTICLE “Bakhtin’s Dialogic Imagination, Totalitarianism and the Subversive Act of Writing” NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, issue 15 vol. 1, spring, Nagoya, Japan, 2014.

Willamette University

French and Francophone Studies

Address
Smullin 312
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem Oregon 97301 U.S.A.
Phone
503-370-6298
Email
french-info@willamette.edu