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Kiki GOUNARIDOU, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Theatre History
Smith Faculty Director 2008-2010
Claire VENTURA, Associate Director
Jonathan GOSNELL, Ph.D, Associate Professor of French Studies, Smith Faculty Director 2010-2011
Hélène VISENTIN, Ph.D. Associate Professor of French Studies, Smith Faculty Director, 2007-2008
Matthew LEITNER, Ph.D. International Relations, University of Geneva (HEI). Adjunct Professor, International History & Politics,
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Initially employed as a commercial pilot, Matthew Leitner turned to education and academia fairly late in life. After the completion of his Ph.D. on French Migrant Labor Policy at the HEI (now Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)) in 1993, he has been a part-time member of the faculty since 1994 and teaches international relations and history. Active in a number of development programs in Southeast Asia, he is currently Vice-President of the Swiss/Cambodia NGO “Krousar Thmey”. Current interests include migrant labor policy, Southeast Asian development, and the impact of media in international relations.
Professor Leitner has taught at Smith College in Geneva since 2003, and is offering a new fall semester course, History of International Organizations and Cooperation.
Geneviève PIRON, Doctorat ès lettres, Université de Genève. Diplôme de traduction de l'Ecole de traduction et d'interprétation de Genève. Licence ès lettres de l'Université de Genève.
Geneviève Piron teaches Oral Communication and Translation at Smith College in Geneva, is also a researcher for the Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique at the University of Geneva. Her academic interests include translation, European philosophy and literature, Russian and Soviet culture, and the legacy of totalitarianism. She translated a book and several articles on these topics. Mme Piron’s interests lie in intercultural issues, linguistics, translation, identities and world perspectives. She also enjoys studying didactic questions concerning language and the modalities of learning, of expression, and of migration from one language to another. French is her mother tongue and her two other idioms are English and Russian. Working at the University of Geneva, Mme Piron enjoys seeing this institution evolve through its collaboration with foreign students, who are numerous in Geneva and attracted by the international organizations there as well as the possibility of study in the fields of law and development. During the year of study abroad, nothing is more gratifying to Mme Piron than witnessing the growth in student’s perspectives that results from experiencing a new culture
Rosine SCHAUTZ, Diplôme sciences historiques et philologiques, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, (EHESS, Paris). Minor in Arabic and Persian, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Langues O’, Paris).
Rosine Schautz teaches written communication and cultural studies courses at Smith College in Geneva. Her academic interests include theater, Francophone literature and culture, languages. After her studies, she began teaching French as a foreign language. She currently works at the Université Ouvrière de Genève (Workers’ University of Geneva) in the Department of Literacy with non-Francophone refugees in precarious material and intellectual situations. She has taught courses such as advanced grammar, literary writing and a theatre workshop at Smith College in Geneva for the last ten years. She also takes part in a collective project on migration, called L’Oeil du Cyclone, at the Théâtre Saint-Gervais, doing on-site surveys, writing and directing plays, and organizing thematic debates. She writes for the Franco-Swiss cultural journal Scènes Magazine, and is also an official juror for the DELF and DALF international exams.
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