Michele H. Jones

Language Laboratory Director for the Department of Languages and Literatures at St. John's University.
Adjunct Associate Professor of French.

Degrees

M.A.in English from the University of Nantes, France, teaching certification from the French Ministry of Education (CAPES), certificate in French>English translation from New York University, Ph.D. in French from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

Publications and Fields of Specialization

Le Theatre national en France de 1800 a 1830, a book on the origins of romanticism in the French theater published by Klincksieck in Paris.

Main field of interest: translation studies and the comparative stylistics of English and French with a book on translation, The Beginning Translator's Workbook, or the ABC of French to English Translation, University Press of America, 1997. This book is currently used as a textbook in advanced translation courses at a number of universities across America and the United Kingdom.

Presentations at international conferences held by the American Translators Association (ATA)

Article in the ATA Chronicle, Teaching French>English Translation to Beginning Translators: A Linguistic Approach, Vol XXVIII, Number I.

Other area of specialty: Francophone Literature of the Caribbean and Africa, in particular authors of the post-negritude era. Has made presentations at various conferences on the subject and introduced a course on Francophone African and Afro-Caribbean Literature at St. John's University, which has been taught since 1993.

Courses
FRE 2050C: Readings in Modern French
FRE 3900C: Masterpieces of French Literature, Part I
FRE 3100C: Masterpieces of French Literature, Part II
FRE 3110C: Advanced French Conversation
FRE 3150C: Review of French Grammar
FRE 3550C: Civilization of France, Part I
FRE 3560C: Civilization of France, Part II
FRE 3820C: French Afro-Caribbean Literature
FRE 3870C: Advanced Grammar and Composition, Part I
FRE 3880C: Advanced Grammar and Composition, Part II
FRE 3900C: Art and Skills of Translation
FRE 4990C: Seminar in French Literature

Contact Information
Language Laboratory, St Augustine Hall room B 48
718-990-6041
jonesm@stjohns.edu