Sharon Fairchild, Ph.D.

“Cross-Cultural Crises in the Works of Maryse Condé,” MaComère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Vol 7 (2005).

“Fourierism’s Feminine Defender and Colonial Pioneer: Clarisse Vigoureux,” Romance Quarterly, Vol. 50, Number 3 (2003).

“George Sand and George Catlin – Masking Indian Realities,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 20, 3-4 (1994).

“Home and Cultural Identity as Mediated by Grandmothers in works of Gisèle Pineau,” SW Conference of Latin American Studies.

“Creating a self: location, family, and writing in Gisèle Pineau’s Fleur de Barbarie,” International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers.

“Maternal Betrayal and Guilt in Maryse Condé’s Crossing the Mangrove,” 29th Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film.

“The Voices of Mothers and Daughters in Maryse Condé’s Crossing the Mangrove,” Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars.

“The Privileging of Caribbeanness over African Identity in Works by Patrick Chamoiseau and Maryse Condé,” Annual Convention of the South Central Organization of Latin American Studies.

• American Association of Teachers of French
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• Nineteenth Century French Studies

• Chair, Department of Modern Language Studies
• Secretary, Faculty Senate
• University Advisory Committee