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| Born | June 17, 1948 |
| Occupation(s) | 9th President of Brooklyn College, City University of New York |
| Awards | Governor General’s Award for Canadian Studies 2003 Donner Medal in Canadian Studies 2005 |
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Karen L. Gould (born June 17, 1948) is a scholar of French-Canadian literature, and an academic administrator who has been a dean at Old Dominion University and the University of Cincinnati, provost and senior vice president at California State University, Long Beach, and the ninth president of Brooklyn College, the first woman to hold that position. [1] [2]
Gould was born in San Francisco, California, in 1948. She spent her junior year of high school as an exchange student in Southern France, the foundation of her interest in French culture and literature. She received a diploma from the Sorbonne in 1969, a B.A. degree in French from Occidental College in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Oregon in 1975. While her dissertation and early research focused on native French writers, she was among a small group in the 1970s who recognized the legitimacy, importance, and relevance of looking critically at the francophone periphery, literature produced in the French language outside France.
Gould began her teaching career at Bucknell University in 1973. She also taught at Virginia Polytechnic University from 1980 to 1985, and Bowling Green State University from 1985 to 1996. She served as dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Old Dominion University from 1996 to 2001, dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati from 2001 to 2007, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at California State University, Long Beach from 2007 to 2009. She was named the ninth president of Brooklyn College (a campus of the City University of New York) in June 2009. [2]
Gould has written or co-edited six books and over 50 articles on contemporary Quebec literature, francophone women writers, and the modern French novel. Beginning her scholarly work with a book on French novelist Claude Simon, she shifted her attention to Québec women writers in the 1980s. Using feminist theory, she explained difficult experimental texts in clear and accessible language. She has interpreted feminist poetry and prose in the context of Québec intellectual history. In journal articles and book chapters Gould has discussed such writers as Louky Bersianik, Marie-Claire Blais, Nicole Brossard, Madeleine Gagnon, Anne Hébert, Suzanne Lamy, Monique LaRue, Madeleine Monette, France Théoret, Élise Turcotte, and Ying Chen. [3]
She was awarded the Governor General's Award for Canadian Studies in 2003, and the Donner Medal in Canadian Studies in 2005. She is a former editor of the journal Québec Studies. She has served as president of the International Council for Canadian Studies, and president of the American Association for Canadian Studies. [4]
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