Scott Juall

Professor Juall is a specialist of early modern European travel narratives and imperialism, and he also works on French immigration and public art and modernist artistic movements in Paris. His most recent research includes the human rights of unidentified deceased migrants and a translation of Henri Raczymow’s second-generation Holocaust survivor travelogue-memoir Dix jours “polonais”.

He is highly dedicated to supporting student research and applied learning. He has directed 10 Departmental Honors Theses on French Immigration, French Linguistics, Seventeenth-century Politics, Religion, and Ethnography, and French and Chemistry: He has also supervised 40 Directed Independent Studies and 8 Internships.

His support of international education includes organizing, directing, and teaching for 13 study abroad programs in Dijon and Paris, France, where he taught Explorations in Paris: Culture and Civilization and Portraying Paris in Writing, Cinema, and Visual Arts. He has also taught several courses on campus that include travel components, such as an Honors Enrichment Course: Travel Writing in Paris and an e-TEAL funded course: Experiential Learning in Florida: Travels to Early Modern French Colonial Sites in South Carolina and Florida (student blog by Erin Gallagher: http://lafloridelivredebord.tumblr.com ).

In his teaching, research, and service, he draws extensively on his experiences with transnational encounters, cross-cultural exchanges, and ethnography while working as a disease control specialist, village health instructor, and high school biology teacher during his 2.5 years serving as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo and Bénin, West Africa.

Education

Ph.D. in French, University of Colorado
M.A. in French, University of Colorado
B.A. in French, Michigan State University
B.S. in Physiology, Michigan State University

Specialization in Teaching

French Linguistics: Phonetics, Phonology, and Second-Language Acquisition
French Immigrant Narratives
French Travel Writing & Ethnography
New France in the New World: Early Modern French Imperialism
Travel Writing in Twentieth-Century Paris

Research Interests

French Immigration: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Human Rights of Undocumented Migrants in Western Europe
Narratives of Second-Generation Holocaust Survivors Living in France
Empire, Nation, and Ideology in Early Modern Travel Literature, Cartography, and Visual Culture
Early Modern Cartography, Atlases, and Map making: History, Politics, and Ideology
Polemical Literature of the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation
Modernist Artistic Movements in Early Twentieth-Century France, Italy, and Spain
Public Art in Twentieth-Century Paris

Professional Service

Member of the Editorial Board for Mediterranean Studies, A Journal of Scholarship on the Mediterranean Region and its Influences

Honors & Awards

UNCW Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award
UNCW Honors College Outstanding Mentor Award
UNCW Discere Aude Award for Outstanding Student Mentoring (awarded 3 times)
UNCW College of Arts & Sciences Exemplary Post-Tenure Review