Director, Institute of World Languages Associate; Professor of French, General Faculty
Director, Institute of World Languages
Associate Professor of French, General Faculty
A native of Virginia and alumna of Collegiate School in Richmond, Dr. Hall graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with majors in French and English. She spent a semester her junior year in Grenoble, France. After graduating, she was awarded an exchange fellowship at the École Normale Supérieure and spent a year in Paris. She then returned to the US to do her graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she earned an MA and PhD with distinction. Her doctoral thesis, Textual Tensions: Reading (with) Hélène Cixous focused on feminist theory and the works of scholar-writer Hélène Cixous. She taught at the University of West Georgia and Ithaca College before returning to her home state to join the faculty at the University of Virginia in 2015. She has published articles on Hélène Cixous, various French and francophone women writers, and teaching methodology, and she is the co-author of a fifth-semester textbook, Textures: pour approfondir la communication orale et écrite (Yale UP 2018). She serves at course chair of French 2010 and regularly teaches introduction to translation and courses focusing on women's literature. In the Fall of 2024, she was named Director of UVA's Institute of World Languages.
Education
BA, Amherst College
MA, UW-Madison
PhD, UW-Madison
Courses Taught
- EGMT 1530 Engaging Differences: Why Do We Keep Telling the Same Stories?
- FREN 1010 Beginning French I
- FREN 2010 Intermediate French I
- FREN 3031 Finding Your Voice in French
- FREN 3032 Text, Image, Culture
- FREN 3034 Advanced Oral Expression in French
- FREN 3036 Introduction to French Translation
- FREN 3140 Introduction to French Studies (previously FREN 3040)
- FREN 3585 Francophone Literature: Africa and the Diaspora
- FREN 3585 Women's Work in French and Francophone Literature and Culture
- FREN 3585 Insanity: Women and Mental Health in French Literature
- FREN 4585 Social and Cultural Movements in 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Literature
- FREN 7040 Theories and Methods of Language Teaching
Publications
Hall, Elizabeth Berglund. “Review of Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women’s Writing, by Lucille Cairns”. Women in French Studies, vol. 3, 2024, pp. 113-4.
Hall, Elizabeth Berglund. “Integrating Women’s Voices and Contemporary Cultural Materials through E-Journaling”. Rethinking the French Classroom New Approaches to Teaching Contemporary French and Francophone Women, edited by Nicole Meyer and Joyce Johnson, Routledge, 2018. Publisher's Version
Hall, Elizabeth Berglund, et al. Textures: Pour Approfondir la Communication Orale et écrite. Yale University Press, 2018. Publisher's Version
Hall, Elizabeth Berglund. “The Laugh of the Mother: Traces of Humor in Hélène Cixous’s Recent Fictions”. Cixous After / Depuis 2000, 23, Brill, 2017, pp. 167-78. Publisher's Version