Theavy Din
Graduate Assistant II, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Graduate Student, French
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Research Expertise
Applied Linguistics
Theavy Din is a Ph.D. Candidate in French. Before coming to UMD, she received a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Université de Strasbourg, and two master’s degrees in French and Linguistics with a focus in Foreign Language Teaching from Syracuse University. She is an experienced Instructor of French, having taught in both secondary and higher education, and is currently teaching in the Department of French. Her research interests are in the realm of French Linguistics.
Publications
Recovering 19th-Century French Print Culture in the Digital Age
Keywords: digital humanities, graduate coursework, literary history, close reading; collaborative assignments, computational analysis, mass culture, French
Author/Lead: Maria Beliaeva…Contributor(s): Theavy Din, Charlotte Joublot Ferré
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Presentation at the Language and Literature Program Innovation Room, MLA Annual Convention, Washington DC, January 8, 2022.
Contribution to the digital repository for innovative curricular and pedagogical initiatives in MLA fields: a digital edition of the first seven portraits of the series of "Contemporary Portraits" (1858-1859) published in Le Figaro, a non-political weekly newspaper, by Gabrielle Anna de Cisternes de Coutiras, under the pseudonym Jacques Reynaud. This project, produced in collaboration with Clara Danos, Marie Laverdiere, Michaëlle Vilmont (master's students) and Theavy Din, Charlotte Joublot-Ferré, Madeline Muravchik (doctoral students ), is the outcome of a digital humanities practicum co-taught with Raffaele Viglianti, researcher at the Maryland State Center for Digital Humanities (MITH), as part of the graduate seminar "FREN659: Literature and the Press in the 19th century: a return to the civilization of the newspaper in the digital age" (Fall 2021, University of Maryland).