Stéphane Natan is Assistant Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Professor of French. He was raised and educated in France, where he received his college education. He has four different degrees: one in French Language and Literature, one in Classics, one in Philosophy, and one in Armenian Language. Specializing in seventeenth-century French literature, he received a PhD with distinction from the University Jean Moulin of Lyon in April 2003 with a dissertation on Pascal and his rhetoric.

Stéphane Natan has published scholarly articles in French in different countries: France, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States. In 2005, he published a book Les Pensées de Pascal: D’un projet apologétique à une œuvre ouverte. In 1997, he was awarded Prix Giraudoux by the Fondation Jean et Jean-Pierre Giraudoux, and in 2004 he received The Chancellor’s Outstanding Teaching Award by the University of Tennessee, where he was a lecturer in the Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Department in charge of the teaching and the promotion of different aspects of French language and culture.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• 2003 Ph.D., French, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1998 Degree, Armenian, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1997 M.A., French, University Lumière Lyon 2 (France)
• 1997 Associate Degree, Philosophy, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1996 B.A., French, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1995 Associate Degree, French, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1995 Associate Degree, Classics, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1993 Bacccalaureate, Economic and Social Sciences, Grenoble (France)

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

• English: fluent speaking ability 
• French: native speaker
• Spanish: reading (good); speaking (fair)
• Armenian: near-native command
• Latin: reading knowledge
• Greek: reading knowledge

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• 2006-present Rider University, Assistant Professor of French
• 2003-06  The University of Tennessee, Lecturer, French
• 2001 Collège Jean Macé, Teacher, French
• 1999 Collège Pierre Ronsard; Substitute teacher, French and Latin

AWARDS

• 2005 The Chancellor’s Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Tennessee
• 2005 MFLL Special Recognition Award, University of Tennessee
• 1997 Prix Giraudoux 97, Fondation Jean et Jean-Pierre Giraudoux, Paris (France)

TEACHING

• Rider University:
  Beginning and Intermediate French
  French Theater
• The University of Tennessee:
  Beginning and Intermediate French
  Intensive Intermediate French
  Honors Intermediate French
  Intermediate and advanced French Conversation
  French Phonetics

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

• Rider University:
  Foreign Film Series
  Spanish Search Committee
• The University of Tennessee:
  French Film series
  French Immersion Weekend

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

• Life and Works of French writer Pascal

PUBLICATIONS

• Book
  Les Pensées de Pascal: D’un projet apologétique à un texte poétique. Paris : Connaissances & Savoirs, 2005. 782 p.
• Articles
  “Les Pensées de Pascal: Au royaume des nécessités.” Symposium 60.2 (Summer 2006): 93-108.
  “Les Pensées de Pascal: Une réponse volée.” Dalhousie French Studies 72 (2005): 3-16.
  “Les Pensées de Pascal et la force des détours.” Nottingham French Studies 44.2 (2005): 1-7.
  “Les Pensées de Pascal et les adverbes d’intensité.” L’Information littéraire 57.1 (2005): 36-50.
  “La tonalité ironique et ludique des Pensées de Pascal.” L’Information littéraire 55.2 (2003): 29-34.