Tammy Berberi

Assistant Professor of French
office: Humanities 14
tel. 320.589.6284

Ph.D. French Literature, Indiana University, 2003
Certificate in Medieval Studies, Indiana University
M.A. French Literature, Indiana University
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. Colorado College

Tammy Berberi is interested in the representation of disability in 19th-century French literature and the history of caricature and pathology. She is also committed to the full inclusion of people with disabilities in higher education, and was the first graduate student asked to serve on the Modern Language Association Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession. She has also served on the Executive Committee for the MLA Disability Studies Discussion Group. Berberi has presented papers at many national and international conferences, including the Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association, Nineteenth Century French Studies, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, and Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability.

At UMM, Dr. Berberi teaches a full-range of courses in the language sequence, as well as courses on Modern France, French Women Writers, and L'Amérique Francophone. In addition, she teaches "Disability in America: Politics, Art, Culture(s)" through the GenEdWeb Program. She led the UMM July in Paris Program in the summer of 2004, serves as the study abroad advisor for French, and is an active member of UMM's French Club, Entre Nous. Berberi is also Director of the Hasselmo Language Teaching Center (on hiatus 2005-06).

Publications

Worlds Apart: Disability and Foreign Language Learning. Co-editors Elizabeth Hamilton and Ian Sutherland, forthcoming, Yale University Press.

The Aesthetics of Marginalization: Pathology and Caricature in fin-de-siècle France (ms. in progress)

“Language Barriers and Barriers to Language: Disability in the Foreign Language Classroom,” co-authored with Elizabeth Hamilton, Disability & Pedagogy , ed. Ken Sagendorf.

Co-authored with Mark Jeffreys, “Update: A More Accessible MLA Convention,” MLA Newsletter , Fall 2000.