Dr. Reis's Service

Contributions to Professional Associations
2006-pres
Campus and departmental liaison, Internships in France offered by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S.
2006-pres
Campus and departmental liaison, English Teaching Assistantships in France, sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U. S.
2006
Organized and administered the 2006 Concours national de Français of the Alliance Française.
2005-pres
Fulbright Program Advisor (FPA), Fulbright U.S. Student Program
2000-pres 
Vice-President to North Central Regional Chapters of Phi Sigma Iota:  Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin
1998-2002 
Member, Executive Committee of Graduate Studies in French, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia
2003
Co-administrator, ATTF French National Contest, 1 March
2002 Chair of Nominations, Graduate Studies in French, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia
1999
Program Chair for the Graduate Studies in French of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), November
1988 Session Chair and Program Secretary of the Graduate Studies in French Discussion Circle at The 68th Annual Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, Georgia, 6 November
Contributions to Conference Organization
2004
Session Chair, "Exploring Identities in Assia Djebar's Novels" at The 10th Annual FIGSA Conference (The Humanities: Community, Identity, and the QUest for the Good Life"), Ohio State University, 2-3 April
2002 Session Chair, "Autobiographics of Feminist Discourse in Latin American Literature" at The First Annual Ohio Latin-Americanist Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 20 April
 2001 Session Organizer, "Voices of Experience/Voices of the Future" (panel organized with Drs. Mona Narain and Eva Sebo)  at The 8th Annual Kate Winter Hanby Women’s Studies Festival on Women’s Lives: Past, Present, and Future, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, 1 May 
 1998
Session Organizer, 'Rereading Chrétien de Troyes" at The 11th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies of the New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota, Florida, 12 March 1998. Organized the following panel of speakers: Olivia Marancy Ferrer, "The Future Cemetery: Mirror Scene of the Chevalier de la Charrette"; Nicholas Ealy, "The Parallel Quest of Narrator and Protagonist in Chrétien de Troyes’s Conjoined Romances: Le Chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot) and Le Chevalier au lion (Yvain)"; Scott Taylor, "Conventional Récriture or Parodic Intertextuality? The Enigma of L'Atre-Perilleux."
Contributions to the College and Department
2000-pres
Foreign Languages Webmaster
2000-pres
Program Liaison, Dijon Study Abroad Program
2001-05 Advisor & webmaster, Women’s Studies Committee
2004-06
Advisor (Humanities), Assessment Commitee
2004-pres
Advisor (at large), Faculty Development Committee
2002-04 Advisor (Humanities), Integrative Studies Committee
2002-pres
Advisor, Black Studies Committee
2003-04
Member, 3-yr/5-yr PC Replacement Taskforce
2003
Advisor, Dimensions of Teaching Taskforce, Win & Spr
2003, 2005
Volunteer, The Black Heritage Quiz Bowl, February
2001
Interim Advisor, Humanities Committee, Winter
Contributions to the Community
2001 Guest Reader of French for the École Kenwood, Columbus French Immersion School, Columbus, Ohio, 15 November
Editorial work
2006 Editor, For the Faculty, Fall
2004
Creator/Editor, "Open Letter to High School Counselors," Spring
2004
Creator, "Careers in Foreign Languages" Poster, Spring
2004
Creator, "The Otterbein French Program" Poster, Spring
2003
Editor, Departmental Brochure, Spring
1995-96 Editorial Assistant to the Managing Editor of French Review (Dr. Leona LeBlanc). Assisted the Managing Editor in all phases of the production of Volume 69 (1995), including selection of articles to be published in each number, writing abstracts, creating the volume index


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