LAST YEAR Lecturer in French Keith A. Sprouse served as the president of the Multicultural Literature in the Classroom section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA). As part of his duties, he organized a panel on the topic of teaching literature at the MMLA annual convention in Chicago in 2006. At the same conference, he also organized the International Francophone Studies section panel, and as part of another panel, he presented a paper entitled “The Politics of Ambivalence: Colonial Discourse and the Limits of Postcolonial Theory.”

Sprouse’s review of Gillian Dooley’s V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer [Columbia: University of South Carolina Press (2006)] is currently being prepared for publication in an upcoming issue of the West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West- Indische Gids, the longest-running scholarly journal devoted to Caribbean Studies.

Sprouse earned his B.A. and M.A. from Illinois State University and has taught at the Hampden-Sydney since 1999.

BEYOND THE Classroom FOR THE Classroom
Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
A report by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty