External Grants National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations grant (2012-14) Primary Grant Writer: Albert Rabil, Ph.D. Project participant with Sharon Diane Nell. Multi-project title: “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: Writings by and about Women, 1400-1700--Eight Projects.” Wolfgang/Nell project title: L’Honnête Femme: The Respectable Woman in Society (Selections) and The New Collection of Letters by Contemporary Women. By Jacques du Bosc. ($20,000). National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (2001). “A Literature of their Own? Women Writing—Venice, London, Paris—1550-1700.” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ($2,800) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars (1999). One-year leave to complete my book Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782. ($30,000) Scholar-in-Residency Grant from the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation (1998). Fellowship provided a quarter-long residency in Brittany, France and stipend to pursue scholarly research. ($12,500) National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar (1996). “Women’s Place in Eighteenth-Century France.” Directors Carol Blum and Madelyn Gutwirth. State University of New York, Stony Brook. ($3,200) National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (1995). “Institutions of Enlightenment: The Invention of the Public Sphere in England and France.” Directors John Bender and Keith Baker. Stanford University. ($3,200) Internal Grants Professors Across Borders Grant (2009) to consult 12 editions (published between 1632 and 1766) of Jacques Du Bosc’s L’Honnête femme at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. Summer Research Fellowship (2009) to revise conference paper (“Theory and Practice of Honnêteté in Jacques Du Bosc’s L’Honnête femme and Nouveau recueil des lettres des dames de ce temps”) into an article. Teaching Resource Center (TRC) Course Development Grant (2008) to “Develop Multimedia Materials and Testing for Second-Year French Language Sequence." Professors Across Borders Grant (2008) to conduct research at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. Faculty Research Grant (2007) to work on translation and critical edition of Jacques Du Bosc’s 1635 Nouveau recueil des lettres des dames de ce temps. TRC Teaching Skills Study Award (2006) to attend CALICO (The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium), University of Hawai’i. 16-20 May 2006. Mini-Grant (2006) to conduct research at rare book libraries of University of CA, Irvine; Boston Public Library; and Houghton Library, Harvard University. Research Study Program (2006) to attend conference on “Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men,” University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Summer Research Fellowship (2005) to begin translation of Jacques Du Bosc’s 1635 Nouveau recueil des lettres des dames de ce temps. Mini-Grant (2005) for research project on “Madeleine de Scudéry’s Amorous Letters (1641): An Early Experimentation with the Epistolary Form." Funding of Assessment Activities (2003) to attend the CARLA Summer Institute workshop, “Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom,” 28 July-1 Aug. 2003. With Terri Nelson. Course Development Grant (2003) to develop course website for Intermediate Assessment and Senior Assessment. With Terri Nelson. Summer Research Fellowship (2003) to make book manuscript (Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782) camera-ready for publication. Research Study Program (2003) to attend annual conference, The Study for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies. CSU Institute of Teaching and Learning grant (2002) for “French Quarter-Campus Consortium Teaching Upper-Division Courses Online." Summer Research Fellowship (2002) to complete chapter revisions to my book manuscript, Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782. Strategic Language Initiative Grant (2000) to create online testing to be shared with the CSU French programs participating in the CSU French Consortium (5 campuses). TRC Teaching Skills Study Award (2000) to attend American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 13-19 Nov. 2000. Mini-Grant (2000) to revise book manuscript chapters to reflect recently published scholarship in my field. Affirmative Action Professional Development Grant (1997) to write grant for the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. CSU San Bernardino Learning Productivity Grant (1997) to restructure second-year French language courses and develop web-based materials to increase students’ French language skills. Professional Study Award (1997) to present at Réflexion et réflexivité dans les textes des femmes écrivains sous l’Ancien Régime, Montréal, Canada, May 15-17. Professional Development Research Grant (1996) for archival research at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. Research of five 18th-century French women writers included in Feminist Companion to French Literature (Greenwood, 1998) Young Scholar’s Grant (1995) to finish “La Duplicité d’un roman par lettres: Le Portefeuille de Mme de Villedieu” for publication in Cahiers du Dix-Septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7.1 (Spring 1997): 241-53 Professional Development Research Grant (1994) to conduct archival research at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. Young Scholar’s Grant to finish “Intertextual Conversations: The Love Letter and the Footnote in Madame de Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne,” for publication in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10.1 (Oct. 1997): 14-27. Affirmative Action Professional Development Grant (1992) to complete my dissertation. Awards CSU San Bernardino Diversity Award (2004). Outstanding Professional Growth Accomplishments, College of Arts and Letters, CSU San Bernardino (1999). Outstanding Professional Growth Accomplishments, College of Arts and Letters, CSU San Bernardino (1998). Honorable Mention: 1998 National Teaching Competition of American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: “Women and the French Enlightenment.”

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