Delphine Gras Profile

Gras, Delphine (Ph.D.)

Associate Professor

Department of Language & Literature

RH 0212

239-590-1511

dgras@fgcu.edu

Education
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Specialties
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Publications
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- “How to promote Cultural Awareness Through Service-Learning in a Non-Required Course.” Language Beyond the Classroom: A Guide to Service Learning for World Languages Curriculum. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018.
- “In the Steps of Hughes and Baldwin: Traveling Griots in Shay Youngblood’s Black Girl in Paris.” Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’” African Americans and the black Diaspora. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2016: 209-225.
- "Post What? Disarticulating Post-Discourses in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child” Humanities 2016, 5.4 (2016): 80. Available.
- “El son de los preteridos y los olvidados: Reimagining Blackness in Nicolás Guillén’s Early Poetry.” CLR James Journal 21 (Fall 2015): 17-36.
- “Hearing Voices, Writing Music: Shay Youngblood’s Reconfiguration of the Griot.” JEAL 3 (2013): 96-126.
- “‘I’ll Rise’:Rememory, Hope and the Creation of a New Public Sphere in Ben Harper’s Music.”NAES Ethnic Studies Review 31.1 (Summer 2008): 19-31.
Grants & Awards
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- "Most Engaged Award." Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers –2019.
- Student Associates for a Greener Environment (S.A.G.E.) Mini-grant Program, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019.
- Diversity and Inclusion Award. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2017, 2018.
- The National Society of Leadership and Success Excellence in Teaching Award – Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2017.
- "Children Are Our Future Award." Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers –2017.
- "Emerald Overall Best Course-Based Award." Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers –2017.
- Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2016.
- Individual Faculty Service Excellence Award. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2016.
- "Outstanding One Class-One Project" Service Learning Award. Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2014.
- Tournées Festival Grant. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2011-2012, 2012-2013.
- Finalist for the Issues in Critical Investigation: Manuscript Competition. Vanderbilt University Press with The New Negro Flow: Musical Discourse of the Literary Griots of the Americas– 2011.

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