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Professor Barjasteh to present "Deceit, Desire and the Diary: Eugenie de Guerin's 'Journal'"
February 22, 2005
St. Olaf College Associate Professor of French Jolene Barjasteh will present "Deceit, Desire and the Diary: Eugenie de Guerin's 'Journal'" on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in Viking Theater, Buntrock Commons. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is the second and final of this year's 23rd Annual Carl Mellby Memorial Lecture Series.
Barjasteh with a 19th-century English translation of de Guerin's journal. |
Currently in her 21st year on the St. Olaf faculty, Barjasteh received her doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1984, specializing in 19th-century French literature. She teaches courses at all levels of language, literature and culture and has led study-travel programs to Cannes and Paris. Barjasteh also teaches "Special Methods for Foreign Languages" in the Education Department.
Barjasteh is in her second teaching cycle of The Great Conversation at St. Olaf, a program that introduces students to the major epochs of Western tradition through direct encounter with significant works. "This has been the most challenging teaching I've done while at St. Olaf," she says. "I'm grateful to have the opportunity to work with exceptional students who love to read and discuss great texts as much as I do." Barjasteh's "Great Con" colleagues include Professor of English Diana Postlethwaite, Professor of History Laurel Carrington and Professor of Religion Edmund Santurri, who directs the program.
As chair of the advisory committee to the St. Olaf World Language Center, Barjasteh is active in the Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum program and has worked with the general education committee, the curriculum and educational policies committee and the review and planning committee.
The annual Mellby Memorial Lectures are given in remembrance of Dr. Carl A. Mellby and were established to let St. Olaf faculty members share their research with others. Mellby, known as "the father of the social sciences" at St. Olaf, started the first courses in economics, sociology, political science and art history at the college. He was professor and administrator from 1901 until 1949, taught Greek, German, French, religion and philosophy, and is credited with creating the college's honor system.
With Meredith Utt '08.