Skip to main content Dr. Jennifer Forrest
- Professor at Dept of World Languages & Literatures, College of Liberal Arts
Service Activities
Ongoing
- Organizer, The French and History Club.
September 2024 - Present.
- Chair, French Program Learning Outcomes and Assessments Portfolios, Exit Interviews, and Report.
September 2016 - Present.
- Member, Department Website Committee.
2007 - Present.
- Member, Faculty Personnel Committee.
2002 - Present.
- Coordinator, French Program Committee.
1996 - Present.
- Organizer, Le Ciné-club français.
1992 - Present.
2025
- Member, The Rust, Fischer, Galvàn, and Cox Scholarship Committee.
March 26, 2025 - March 27, 2025.
- Member, World Languages and Literatures Outstanding Undergraduate Award committee.
March 16, 2025 - March 17, 2025.
- Member, Department Curriculum Committee.
February 28, 2025 - March 7, 2025.
2024
- Outside reviewer of a tenure and promotion candidate's research portfolio, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: University of Delaware.
June 1, 2024 - August 30, 2024.
- Chair, French Program Learning Outcomes and Assessments Portfolios, Exit Interviews, and Report.
January 2024 - May 25, 2024.
- Editorial Review Board Member, Amsterdam University Press - special series Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective.
May 6, 2024 - May 16, 2024.
- Back cover blurb for Kathleen Loock's book "Hollywood Remaking", University of California Press.
February 1, 2024 - March 8, 2024.
- Member, The World Languages and Literatures Outstanding Undergraduate Award.
March 2, 2024 - March 3, 2024.
- Chair, Annual Faculty Evaluations.
February 1, 2024 - February 22, 2024.
2023
- Member, The Rust, Fischer, Galvàn, and Cox Scholarship Committee.
March 23, 2023 - March 24, 2023.
2022
- Editorial Review Board Member, Amsterdam University Press - special series Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective.
November 2022.
2021
- Reviewer / Referee, Bloomsbury Publishing.
July 3, 2021 - July 22, 2021.
2020
- Evaluator, Teaching Certification Exam in French.
November 30, 2020.
- Member, World Languages and Literatures faculty committee nominating WWL candidate to Liberal Arts Dean’s student advisory board.
September 14, 2020 - September 15, 2020.
- Certification exam evaluator, Diplôme de Français Professionnel (DFP/Business French Certificate) Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris-Ile de France (CCIP-IDF/French Chamber of Commerce).
May 23, 2020 - May 26, 2020.
- Member, The Elizabeth Topper-Nash Scholarship and the Senor Cicero A. Rust III Endowed Scholarship committee.
March 1, 2020 - March 12, 2020.
- Evaluator, Teaching Certification Exam in French.
February 14, 2020.
- Editorial Review Board Member, Edinburgh University Press.
December 12, 2019 - January 25, 2020.
2019
- Organizer, La Table française (weekly lunch with students conducted in French).
2000 - 2019.
- Reviewer / Referee, Irish Journal of French Studies.
December 16, 2019 - December 22, 2019.
- Editorial Review Board Member, Amsterdam University Press.
November 2019.
- Participant, Faculty Research Enhancement Committee.
October 2019 - November 2019.
- Reviewer / Referee, Adaptation.
July 2, 2019 - July 27, 2019.
- Editorial Review Board Member, Amsterdam University Press (AUP).
April 2019.
- Organizer, Public Lecture: author Brice Matthieussent.
March 2019 - April 11, 2019.
2018
- Editorial Review Board Member, Amsterdam University Press (AUP).
April 2018.
- Member, Elizabeth Topper Nash Scholarship Committee.
March 2018.
- Reviewer / Referee, Routledge (publisher).
February 2018 - March 7, 2018.
- Member, Annual Faculty Evaluation Review Committee.
February 2018.
2017
- Coordinator / Organizer, Nineteenth-Century French Studies.
November 9, 2017.
- Reviewer / Referee, Dix-Neuf. Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuvièmistes.
May 2017 - July 19, 2017.
- Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Dix-neuvièmistes Conference.
April 10, 2017.
- Member, Search Committee for a tenure-track assistant professor of German.
November 2016 - March 2017.
- Chair, Thomas L. and Helen E. Cox Endowed Scholarship.
March 10, 2017.
2016
- Member, Annual Faculty Review Evaluation.
2016.
- Reviewer / Referee, Reviewer of first volume of a 2-volume manuscript for Cambridge Scholars.
2016.
- Reviewer / Referee, Reader of article and revised version submitted to PMLA.
2016.
- Reviewer / Referee, Reader for article and revised version submitted to French Historical Studies.
2016.
- Reviewer / Referee, Reviewer of scholarly work of candidate for promotion to associate professor.
2016.
- External Reviewer for 5-year Self-Study, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, Montclair State University.
2016.
- Member, Elizabeth Topper-Nash Scholarship Evaluation Committee.
2000 - 2016.
2015
- Chair, Organized panel: Through Glass Walls, Through Fourth Walls, Through Huysmans for the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference.
2015.
- Reviewer / Referee, Book Review.
2015.
- Organizer, Public Lecture: Fred Duval.
2015.
- Organizer, 2 workshops with French graphic novelist Fred Duval.
November 1, 2015.
2014
- Reviewer / Referee, Book proposal on film remakes for Edinburgh University Press.
2014.
- Reader, Article on television remakes submitted to Adaptation.
2014.
2013
- Organizer, 3 public lectures on "Hauteville House, Steampunk, and the Origins of the Graphic Novel in France".
2013.
- Coordinator / Organizer, Public lectures on Hauteville House Steampunk, and the Origins of the Graphic Novel in France.
2013.
2012
- Member, Annual Faculty Evaluation Review Committee.
2012.
- Writer, Back cover endorsement for Constantine Verevis's edition Film Trilogies.
2012.
- Reviewer / Referee, Film studies grant application for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
2012.
- Reviewer / Referee, External reviewer of application for promotion to associate professor.
2012.
- Reader, Article submitted to the Journal of Research on Women and Gender.
2012.
2010
- Member, Annual Faculty Evaluation Review Committee.
2010.
2009
- Organizer, Public Lectures on 19th-century French author J.K. Huysmans.
2009.
- Coordinator / Organizer, 19th-century author, J.K. Huysmans: Dr. Robert Ziegler, Montana Tech; Dr. Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University; Dr. Marc Smeets, Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
2009.
- Reviewer / Referee, Scholarly work of candidate for promotion to full professor.
2009.
- Member, College Review Group for Tenure and Promotion.
2007 - 2009.
- Organizer, Public Lecture.
October 2009.
2008
- Member, Annual Faculty Evaluation Review Committee.
2008.
2007
- Chair, Search Committee for a tenure-track assistant professor of German.
2006 - 2007.
2006
- Reader, Article submitted to the PMLA for the special issue on the prose poem.
2006.
2005
- Member, Search Committees for assistant professors, tenure track in Spanish.
2004 - 2005.
- Liaison, Faculty Senate.
2004 - 2005.
2004
- French Representative, Executive Committee of the South Central Modern Language Association.
2004.
- Advisor, Fulbright Program.
1999 - 2004.
2002
- Member, Coordinating Committee for the Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities.
2001 - 2002.
- Undergraduate Advisor, Jayne Machak.
2001 - 2002.
- Graduate Advisor, Brandy Schnautz.
2001 - 2002.
2001
- Reviewer / Referee, Article on film for Left History.
2001.
2000
- Reader, Manuscript on cinema submitted to SUNY Press.
2000.
- Member, College Review Group for Tenure and Promotion.
1998 - 2000.
1999
- Chair, Search Committee for an Assistant Professor, Tenure Track in French.
1998 - 1999.
1998
- Member, Campus Evaluation Committee for Fulbright Scholarships.
1998.
1996
- Member, Faculty Research Enhancement Grant Advisory Committee.
1995 - 1996.
- Chair, The South Central Modern Language Association Conference.
October 1996.
1994
- Reviewer / Referee, Article for The South Central Review.
1994.
1993
- Chair, The South Central Modern Language Association Conference.
1993.
1992
- Member, Faculty Research Enhancement Grant Advisory Committee.
1992.
- Member, FIPSE Grant Reader/Evaluator.
1992.
1991
- Member, Campus Evaluation Committee for Fulbright Scholarships.
1991.
- Member, Search Committee for an Assistant Professor, Tenure Track in Spanish.
1990 - 1991.
