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Stéphane Natan is Professor of the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Professor of French. He was raised and educated in France, where he received his college education. He has four different degrees: one in French Language and Literature, one in Classics, one in Philosophy, and one in Armenian Language. Specializing in seventeenth-century French literature, he received a PhD with distinction from the University Jean Moulin of Lyon in April 2003 with a dissertation on Pascal and his rhetoric.

Stéphane Natan has published scholarly articles in French in different countries: France, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States. In 2005, he published a book Les Pensées de Pascal: D’un projet apologétique à une œuvre ouverte. In 1997, he was awarded Prix Giraudoux by the Fondation Jean et Jean-Pierre Giraudoux, and in 2004 he received The Chancellor’s Outstanding Teaching Award by the University of Tennessee, where he was a lecturer in the Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Department in charge of the teaching and the promotion of different aspects of French language and culture.

Educational Background

• 2003 Ph.D., French, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1998 Degree, Armenian, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1997 M.A., French, University Lumière Lyon 2 (France)
• 1997 Associate Degree, Philosophy, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1996 B.A., French, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1995 Associate Degree, French, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1995 Associate Degree, Classics, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
• 1993 Bacccalaureate, Economic and Social Sciences, Grenoble (France)

Foreign Languages

• English: fluent speaking ability
• French: native speaker
• Spanish: reading (good); speaking (fair)
• Armenian: near-native command
• Latin: reading knowledge
• Greek: reading knowledge

Professional Background

• 2006-present С����Ƶ, Assistant Professor of French
• 2003-06 The University of Tennessee, Lecturer, French
• 2001 Collège Jean Macé, Teacher, French
• 1999 Collège Pierre Ronsard; Substitute teacher, French and Latin

Awards

• 2005 The Chancellor’s Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Tennessee
• 2005 MFLL Special Recognition Award, University of Tennessee
• 1997 Prix Giraudoux 97, Fondation Jean et Jean-Pierre Giraudoux, Paris (France)

Teaching

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• Beginning and Intermediate French
• French Theater

The University of Tennessee

• Beginning and Intermediate French
• Intensive Intermediate French
• Honors Intermediate French
• Intermediate and advanced French Conversation
• French Phonetics

Institutional Service

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• Foreign Film Series
• Spanish Search Committee

The University of Tennessee

• French Film series
• French Immersion Weekend

Research in Progress

• Life and Works of French writer Pascal

Publications

Book

• Les Pensées de Pascal: D’un projet apologétique à un texte poétique. Paris : Connaissances & Savoirs, 2005. 782 p.

Articles

• “Les Pensées de Pascal: Au royaume des nécessités.” Symposium 60.2 (Summer 2006): 93-108.
• “Les Pensées de Pascal: Une réponse volée.” Dalhousie French Studies 72 (2005): 3-16.
• “Les Pensées de Pascal et la force des détours.” Nottingham French Studies 44.2 (2005): 1-7.
• “Les Pensées de Pascal et les adverbes d’intensité.” L’Information littéraire 57.1 (2005): 36-50.
• “La tonalité ironique et ludique des Pensées de Pascal.” L’Information littéraire 55.2 (2003): 29-34.