Jennifer   Pap

• Associate Professor of French
• Sturm 218
• 303-871-2603
• jennifer.pap@du.edu

Background:

I received my PhD from Princeton University. My research is on 20th and 21st century French poets such as Guillaume Apollinaire, René Char, Francis Ponge, and Dominique Fourcade.   I am especially interested in the relation of poetry with the visual arts and with the historical violence of the modern period.  At the moment I am working on a book on poets and painters of the 20th century, and their response to war.  I have published several articles on the collaborations or friendships of poets and painters such as Apollinaire and Picasso or Ponge and Braque. I have been teaching at DU since 1991.

Some of the courses I like to teach:

• Intermediate French
• Introduction à la littérature
• Perspectives sur la Résistance
• Poésie et Histoire
• Littérature de la guerre
• Apollinaire et son temps
• Modern French Poetry in Times of Change (Foundations Class)
• Surrealism and its Margins (CORE class--I have also taught this in French as one of our advanced seminars)
• Occupation and Resistance (CORE class)

I enjoy teaching at all levels.  I  love literature, and with each seminar I teach I enjoy bringing some aspect of my research into the classroom.  I also enjoy teaching the second year language sequence (2001-2002-2100). I see students make so much progress during that year, and I always try to bring up some interesting topics to discuss.
I hope to share some of this connection to literature with my students. I think that whether they plan to become teachers, doctors, actors, musicians, businesspeople, or anything else, I hope that they will always be thinkers, and I know their lives can be enriched by the study of culture, language, and literature.

PhD Princeton University

Publications:

Articles: >
"Seeing a Contemporary: Fourcade, Visual Form and History," Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 11:1 (January 2007): 59-68.
"Transforming the Horizon: Reverdy's World War I,"  Modern Language Review, 101:4 (October 2006): 966-978.
"From Ekphrasis to "Moviment": Ponge's "Nuage...informe," Dalhousie French Studies, 55 (Summer 2001): 95-119.
"'Sous bois ou sous l'herbe,' or the Cyclops' Cave?:  Ponge, Landscape, Giacometti," Symposium 53:3 (Fall 1999): 180-96.
"'Entre quatre murs': Reverdy, Cubism, and the Space of Still Life," Word & Image 12.2 (April-June 1996): 125-38.
"Apollinaire and Delaunay: Color, Writing, and the World," Interfaces: Image Texte Langage 10 (February 1996): 125-138.
"Apollinaire's ekphrastic poésie-critique and Cubism," Word & Image 8.3 (July - September 1992) 206-14.