Marva A. Barnett

Marva A. Barnett

Professor

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Phone: 434-982-2816
Personal Website

Address:
PO Box 400136
Hotel D, 24 East Range
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4136

Research Interests

Marva Barnett (Ph.D., Harvard, 1980) is the founding director of the Teaching Resource Center (TRC), which since 1990 has promoted excellence in teaching, helped build community, and fostered innovation throughout the University of Virginia. She also holds the rank of professor at U.Va., where she teaches in the Department of French (Victor Hugo; and The Writing and Reading of Texts). Her current research centers on Hugo's work. She published in 2009 Victor Hugo on Things That Matter with Yale University Press, a reader that highlights the contemporary relevance of his ideas and presents a wide variety his writings and art work in literary and historical context. Her  Lettres inédites de Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo : 105 lettres retrouvés dans des bibliothèques américaines, co-edited with Gérard Pouchain, will be published in France in 2012. She is beginning a book-length project on Les Misérables. In 2000, as the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College, University of Cambridge, Marva pursued a cross-cultural analysis of thinking skills, values, and expectations in the context of the humanities in the US, France, and England. She also has studied and offers workshops on second-language reading and writing processes, foreign-language methodology, and teacher training. The author of the reading strategies text Lire avec plaisir and the theoretical More Than Meets the Eye: Foreign Language Reading, Theory and Practice, she has published in such journals as The Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, and The French Review and presents at such conferences as the Northeast Conference on Foreign Language Teaching, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Lilly Teaching Conferences, and the international faculty development conference, the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD).

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Westminster College of Salt Lake City
• Master of Arts (MA), University of Maine System : Orono
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Harvard University

Spring 2012 Office Hours:

Professor Barnett is on leave this spring.