Honors Convo: Dana Strand May 27, 2005

Dana Strand, the David and Marion Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of French and Humanities, will present a convocation address titled ?On Being [Perfectly] at Home? at 3 p.m. on Friday, May 27 at the Carleton College Skinner Memorial Chapel. This convocation will honor faculty and students for their personal and academic excellence over the past academic year. The event is free and open to the public.

Strand?s convocation address will question the conventional wisdom that being at home is unquestionably a good thing. ?I suggest that those who avoid taking home for granted, who are willing to forsake the solidarity of shared history and language, may be able to gain a greater perspective on the world by occasionally adopting the exile's detachment,? says Strand.

Strand received her A.B. from Vassar College, M.A.T. from Cornell University, and after a stint in the Peace Corps in Ankara, Turkey, teaching English at the Middle East Technical University, received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. In her more than 20 years at Carleton, Strand has taught classes on film, contemporary French literature and cultural studies and focused her research on the issues of transnationalism, cultural identity and gender in recent film and literature. Strand?s publications include ?Colette: A Study of the Short Fiction,? a critique of the elements of gender and morality within that author?s body of work and ?French Cultural Studies: Criticism at the Crossroads,? a reconsideration of the traditional boundaries of the field of French studies. She is in the process of completing a work on place and identity in contemporary French fiction and film. Strand also serves at director of Carleton?s European studies program and as project director for the college?s European studies initiative.

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