Kaufman Hall 232
tomc@ou.edu
Profile
Christine Tomte earned her M.A. in French in 2018. She is currently a Doctoral student in French and Francophone Studies here at OU, on the Norman campus, in the department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, where she has been teaching undergraduate French courses as a Graduate Teaching Assistant since 2016 while serving concurrently the military community at Fort-Sill /Lawton as a French teacher at Lawton Public School (LPS) from 2016 until 2019. She has also taught overseas for the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) early childhood program as a Sure Start assistant teacher from 2011 until 2015.
In fall 2019 and in Spring 2020, she received the MLLL travel funds. In spring 2020, she received the French section’s award for Excellence in Teaching for a French Teaching Assistant, the MLLL recognition for high student-teacher evaluations along with the Besse A. Clement Scholarship she earned consecutively in fall 2020, spring 2021, fall 2021 and fall 2022. In Fall 2020, she received the Provost’s Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for an Outstanding Graduate Assistant for the 2020 Spring semester. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation and her director is Dr. Pamela Genova. Her tentative dissertation title is: Sociopoétique d’un malaise enchevêtré dans ‘le mal du siècle’ du XIXème siècle dans deux romans: “Je m’en vais” de Jean Echenoz et “Soumission” de Michel Houellebecq. She is interested in the essential dynamics of literature and culture, along with the political and ideological impacts, of 19th-century French Romanticism on modern French culture. Her fieldwork project focuses on psychoanalysis and French literature, particularly in the novels of the late 20th and early 21st centuries by two celebrated French authors, Jean Echenoz and Michel Houellebecq, and their relationship to the 19th-century notion of “malaise.”
She has regularly taught both in-person and synchronously FR 1115, "Beginning French," FR 1225, "Beginning French II," FR 2113, "Intermediate French I ,"and FR 2223, "Intermediate French II". As a graduate student, Christine has volunteeered to serve as the vice-chair and chair of the Human Diversity Committee in the Graduate Student Senate (GSS). She has also served as a representative attendee for MLLL faculty meetings for Kappa Gamma Epsilon, the Modern Languages Honor Society. As a military spouse, she has volunteered as well to serve (for more than a decade) the military community abroad and here in the U.S. earning among several awards the prestigious Volunteer of the year award, the Outstanding Field Artillery Honorable order of Molly Pitcher, and the highly distinguished Public Service commendation medal from the U.S. Army 434th Field Artillery Brigade & 1-79 DB.
Selected Publications
Mabanckou, Alain. “Tant que les arbres s’enracineront dans la terre.” World Literature Today. 90.5 (2016): 67. Translation from French to English by Christine Tomte.
Education
M.A. French University of Oklahoma 2018, Norman, Oklahoma.
B.A. International Languages Cameron University 2016, Lawton/Ft-Sill, Oklahoma.
Teaching Schedule for FALL 2023
FR 1115-003 Beginning French, SYNC, M/T/W/R/F 11:30-12:20
