Address

Chair, French Department and European Studies program
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. 01075
Tel: work (413) 538 2723; Home (413) 5863211
Fax: (413) 538 2231
email: nvaget@mtholyoke.edu
URL:http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~nvaget/

Education

Ph.D. 1973, Department of French, University of Massachusetts , USA
M.A. 1967, Department of French, Columbia University,USA
License-ès-Lettres, 1964, Université de Grenoble ,France
 

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant,Whitchurch, Cardiff, Wales (62-63)
Lecturer, Institut Français, Tübingen, Germany (63-64)
Instructor, Columbia University, USA (Summer 66-67-68)
Instructor, Mount Holyoke College, USA (67-69)
Lecturer, Hamburg Universität, Germany (69-71)
Assistant professor, Mount Holyoke College,USA (71-77)
Associate professor, Mount Holyoke College,USA (78-94)
Professor, Mount Holyoke College,USA (95-00)
 

Publications

(Books)

Saint Jean d'Arvey en Savoie: Monograph of a rural community in the French Alps. Montmeillan, La Fontaine de Siloé, 1999
Franco-American Viewpoints: French Canadian immigrants in New England. Northampton, Nouveau Monde Press/ Wistariahurst Museum, 1988.
Yvonne Roux, Poèmes pour mon village: Poetry in context, edited by Nicole
Grangeat-Vaget, Cranves Salles, Edition Les Voirons, 1982.
Le Chevalier de Boufflers et son temps, étude d'un échec: Eighteenth-Century literature and society. Paris, Nizet, Editeur Place de la Sorbonne, 1976.

(Articles)

French Vowells, a lesson in Libra (1998)
Entre campagne et rurbanité: Dégradation ou évolution d'une communauté rurale dans les Alpes de Savoie depuis la fin du 19ème siècle, Etudes Francophones, CIEF , Spring 1997
Computers and Collaborative Learning: a comparison of French Romanesque and French Gothic Churches in Hypercard. Proceedings of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, 1995 Annual Symposium, hosted by Middlebury College and the Middlebury Language Schools, CALICO, Duke University and Heinle & Heinle Publishers, Boston, 1995.
Le Chevalier de Boufflers au Sénégal et le chevalier de Tourville à Saint Domingue: traite et esclavage au 18ème siècle, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society. Martinique and Guadeloupe, May 1989. University Press of America, 1991.
Yvonne Roux, Poème d'un retour au pays, La Vie Nouvelle, Sept. 82.
Exposition Paul Barruel au musée savoisien , Dauphiné Libéré, May 82
La Sasson ou les mésaventures d'une statue , Dauphiné Libéré, May 30, 82
Exposition-dossier des Beaux arts de Chambéry: A l'occasion du retour de la Sasson, Dauphiné Libéré Jun.82.
Les demeures ancestrales: La maison forte de Salins, Dauphiné Libéré, Aug.81
Les Grandes écuries Sardes de la caserne Barbot, Dauphiné Libéré, Aug.81
Les anciennes industries de la Crouettaz , Bulletin Municipal de St Jean d'Arvey, dec.81

Papers and presentations at Conferences

CIEF''99, Lafayette, Louisianna
FCHS"99, New Orleans, Louisianna,
CIEF''98 Moncton, New Brunswick: Les fonctions pédagogiques de la toile cybernétique:
Colloquium in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Studies, UMass, Amherst'98
1.The web as a teaching tool
2.Malraux on the Web (Florence Deininger)
ACFEL'97 Nashville, Tennessee: Cyberspace and The Classroom
AATF Internet Workshop, MHC, South Hadley96: New Technologies, CD-Roms and the World Wide Web
Mount Holyoke College Art museum, Gallery talk, November 96: The virtual world of French Peasant"; men and women at work on the Farm
CALICO 95 (annual symposium of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) Middlebury Vermont: Computers and Collaborative Learning: a comparison of French Romanesque and French Gothic Churches
CALICO 95 (annual symposium of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) Middlebury Vermont: Renaissance Casttles of the Loire Valley
CIEF-International Conference of Francophone Studies, Québec, April 94. (Paper on contemporary French rural society) Entre campagne et rurbanité: Dégradation ou évolution d'une communauté rurale dans les Alpes de Savoie depuis la fin du 19ème siècle
Colloque "Raison et déraison", CSES-(Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) University of Saskatchewan, Canada, October 94. (Paper on provincial women of the aristocracy in 18th century France) Les Mémoires de la comtesse de Laurencin ou les étapes de la condition féminine pour une aristocrate provinciale,
Mount Holyoke college, Art museum, October , A commented slide presentation by members of the French department,: French poetry and the visual image.
CIEF (Conference of Francophone Studies, Casablanca, Marocco) July 93. (Panel moderator) Le Paysan dans la littérature francophone: traditions orales, mythes et réalités,
CIEF-(International Conference of Francophone Studies) Strasbourg, June 92. (Paper on plantations and slave owners of Martinique) La Grande Békée ou la fin du monde des planteurs de Martinique d'après l'oeuvre de Marie-Reine de Jaham.
FCHS-(International Conference of the French Colonial Historical Society) Martinique/ Guadeloupe, May 90, (Paper on Eighteenth century slave trade in Senegal and Haiti) Révolution et Réalités coloniales: Impressions de voyage de deux représentants du roi de France.
AATF-(American Association of Teachers of French) Paris, July 89, (Panel moderator) Programmes d'échanges francophones entre l'Afrique, l'Amérique et les Antilles
CIEF-(International Conference of Francophone Studies) New Orleans, April 89, (Panel moderator on the French Revolution of 1789 in Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe) La Révolution de 1789 aux Antilles
CIEF- International Conference of Francophone Studies, Montreal, April 88. Exchange Programs between the US and the French Caribbean islands.
University of the Virgin Islands, April 90, in collaboration with professor André Palluel-Guillard.How relevant is the French Revolution of 1789 to Caribbean Societies of today?
Workshop sponsored by the Council for the Humanities of the district of Saint Thomas and Saint John in the Virgin Islands, Apr. 90 Teaching with French in Action
Slide presentation for the Franco-American Society "Club des dames françaises", Mount Holyoke College, May 89 Peasants and Women, the casualties of the French Revolution of 1789
Slide presentation for Five College Partnership, Mount Holyoke College, April 89 Iconography and films on the French Revolution of 1789

Computer Applications

A Hypercard application in medieval religious art: "ARM, a comparison of French Romanesque and Gothic Churches", 1992.
A Supercard application: "Renaissance Castles of the Loire Valley. A lesson in
Architecture and History in XVe and XVIe century France", 1994.
An Authoreware application:"The virtual world of French Peasant", 1996.
A lesson in Libra: "French vowells", 1997