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Modern Languages & Literatures

Kelly Keenan, M.A.

Director of the Language Learning Center
Kelly Keenan with nature background

Director of the Language Learning Center

Education

Boston University, M.A., French Language and Literature

Courses Taught

  • French 101
  • French 102
  • French 303: France Today

Publications

“Looking in and shouting out: Gendered perspectives on the convent in Gouges, Diderot, and Théron.” Symposium, vol. 76, no. 3, 2022, pp. 141-155. "

Presentations

  •  “Incorporating Slang in the Upper-Level French Classroom,” French and Francophone Studies Roundtable, Georgetown University, April 2024.
  • “Coming-of-age in Catholic School: A Rereading of Monique Wittig and Simone de Beauvoir,” Modern Languages and Literatures Department Teatime Talk Series. Loyola Maryland, March 2024. “The Garden of Eden, A Feminocentric Utopia,” Northeastern Modern Language Association. Virtual Conference. March 2021. 
  • “Sacred or Scandalous: The Habit in Denis Diderot’s La Religieuse,” Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association. Virtual Conference. November 2020.
  • Invited participant on the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Panel for First-Time Teaching Fellows. Boston University, August 2020.
  • “Integrating Contemporary Pop Culture into the Modern Language Classroom,” Boston University Romance Studies and World Languages and Literatures Brown Bag Workshop Series. Co-presented with Constance Vottero. Boston, Massachusetts, November 2019.
  • “Rewriting Religion, Reinventing Gender in Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères,” Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs: CURA Colloquium. Boston, Massachusetts, November 2019.
  • “Rewriting Religious Collective Memory in Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères” Boston College Romance Studies Department, Graduate Student Conference. Boston, MA, March 2019.
  • “Physical and Mental Remapping: Blurred Borders in Two Works of Francophone Literature.” CUNY Comparative Literature Department, Graduate Student Conference. New York City, NY, November 2018. 
  • “Framing Gender in Historical Films: The Case of Genocide in Rwanda,” co-authored with Dr. James Snow. Conference for Gender and History Journal, Special Edition. Minneapolis, MN, May 2017.

Service Activities, Memberships in Academic Societies

  • Messina Mentor (2023-present)
  • French Club Faculty Moderator (2022-present)
  • MLL Ambassador Moderator (2022-present)
  • LEAP Program Director (2023)