Weber-Fève,
Stacey
Weber-Fève,
Stacey
Email Address
sweber@iastate.edu
Birth Date
Title
Professor
Academic or Administrative Unit
Organizational Unit
World Languages and Cultures
The Department of World Languages and Cultures seeks to provide an understanding of other cultures through their languages, providing both linguistic proficiency and cultural literacy. Majors in French, German, and Spanish are offered, and other coursework is offered in Arabic, Chinese, Classical Greek, Latin, Portuguese, and Russian
About
Stacey Weber-Fève researches French & Francophone Cultural Studies as a specialist of French and Francophone Cinemas with areas of expertise in 20th/21st Century French & Francophone Literatures, Women’s & Gender Studies, and the Teaching of French & Francophone Cultures and Cultural Texts. Her early research focused mostly on interdisciplinary connections surrounding “re/presentation” in women’s contemporary filmmaking and lifewriting in France, Algeria, and Tunisia. More recently, her research interests have evolved to include transnational cinema, affect theory, and cinematic comedy. She is currently investigating the constructions, performances, and intersectionality of gender, subjectivity, identity, ethnicity, and “nation” as reified and challenged in women’s filmmaking and mainstream comedy in Hexagonal French Cinema and through the methodology of embodied spectatorship more generally. Weber-Fève is also a dedicated practitioner and applied researcher in the Pedagogy field of the teaching of French & Francophone cultures and cultural texts. She seeks ways to explore how second-language research study can directly inform and enhance modern language teaching and learning. She is particularly interested in three approaches: both traditional literacy-based and cultural literacy-based methodologies, input-to-output structuring, and integrated performance assessment. Her work also considers Artificial Intelligence and its multifaceted implications for a human literacy-centered approach to the teaching and learning of the French language and French & Francophone cinemas, literatures, and cultures across all undergraduate curricular and language proficiency levels.