L.M. "Pat" and Mildred Harrison Professorship
Denise Egéa-Kuehne is L.M. "Pat" and Mildred Harrison Professor and Director of the French Education Project in the Department of Educational Theory, Policy and Practice, College of Education, Louisiana State University. She is a Fellow in the Philosophy of Education Society, and a Phi Kappa Phi scholar. Her primary areas of scholarship are theory and philosophy of education, curriculum studies, gender studies, and culture and language studies with a focus on human, cultural, linguistic, and educational rights, ethics, diversity and social justice, especially in their relationship with education and democracy. She has made major contributions to the educational interpretation of key theorists and philosophers (Bachelard, Cixous, Derrida, Freire, Irigaray, Kant, Kristeva, Levinas, Serres).
Her work is recognized abroad and she was a guest lecturer and keynote speaker at University of Ottawa, Canada; University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; University of Sofia, Bulgaria; University of Malta, Msida, Malta; University of Tampere, Finland; University of Auckland, New Zealand; University of Wales, Aberyswyth, Wales; University of Dundee, Scotland; University of Oxford, England; Adam Mickiewicz Universiteit, Poznan, Poland; University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; and the universities of Lyon, Paris X-Nanterre, Paris 7-Jussieu, and La Sorbonne in France. Locally, she provides multiple professional development opportunities for teachers of foreign languages, via pre-service and in-service education, summer institutes, workshops, colloquia and conferences, including videoconferences.
Through the French Education Project, she endeavors to support, enhance and improve the teaching of French and francophone cultures with special emphasis on Louisiana's francophone heritage.
LSU College of Education Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, 2010
Outstanding Faculty Contribution to Women’s and Gender Studies
LSU Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service
American Association of State and Local History National Award
Association of Colleges and Schools of Education National Award for Outstanding Scholarship
Named Chevalier then Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Education and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Trophées FEMMES 3000” award for outstanding achievement in social and cultural action outside France.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. (contributing editor) (2008; 2011 paperback edition) Levinas and Education: At the Intersection of Faith and Reason. London and New York: Routledge.
Biesta, G.J.J. and Egéa-Kuehne, D. (contributing editors) (2001; 2011 paperback edition) Derrida & Education. London: Routledge.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. (2011) "Facing the Veil in Education: Todd and the ‘Veiling’ Question.” In Philosophy of Education 2010, Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. p. 357-359.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. (2010) “Understanding the European Identity through Derrida,” in H. Frendo (ed.) The European Mind: Narrative and Identity, Malta: Malta University Press. Vol.II, Part 4. pp. 221-227.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. (2010) “Levinas’s Ideal of Justice and Education,” in H. Frendo (ed.) The European Mind: Narrative and Identity, Malta: Malta University Press. Vol. I, Part 3. pp. 667-673.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. (2010) “Serres’s New Landscape for Knowledge,” in G. Bottà and M. Harmanmaa (Eds.), Language and the Scientific Imagination, Helsinki, Finland: University of Helsinki Carhu. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/15210. No page numbers.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. (2010) "Subjectification: Biesta’s Strong Link to Education.” Response to Gert Biesta’s “On the Weakness of Education,” in D. Kerdeman (ed.), Philosophy of Education 2009, Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. pp. 363-366.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. (2009) “Response to Katz: Levinas’s Life and Work at the Intersection of Faith and Reason,” Studies in Philosophy and Education (SPED). pp. 383-386.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. (2009) “Current Debates and Contemporary Issues in French Curriculum Studies,” in E. Ropo and T. Autio (Eds), International Conversations on Curriculum Studies: Subject, Society and Curriculum. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. pp. 391-398
Egéa-Kuehne, D. (2009) “Curriculum and Serres's ‘New Organization of Knowledge’,” in E. Ropo and T. Autio (Eds), International Conversations on Curriculum Studies: Subject, Society and Curriculum. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. pp. 133-146.
Selected Presentations
Egéa-Kuehne, D. “Writing With Multiple Literacies: Three Authors’ Struggle for Identity,” American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS), New Orleans, April 6-8, 2011.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. “Research in Minority and Indigenous Settings: A Quest for Autonomy,” International Conference on Education Research, New Orleans, LA, September 26-28, 2010.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. “FL Immersion in Louisiana: Opportunities and Challenges,” American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), San Diego, November 20-22, 2009.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. “Content and Technology Power: Professional Development Via Videoconferences,” American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), San Diego, November 20-22, 2009.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. “The Gordian Knot: Curriculum in a ‘Time out of Joint’”, International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS), 3rd World Curriculum Studies Conference (WCSC), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, September 7-10, 2009.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. “Rethinking Curriculum Studies Today with Levinas's Ideal of Justice,” International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS), 3rd World Curriculum Studies Conference (WCSC), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, September 7-10, 2009.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. “Teaching French in Louisiana: Opportunities and Challenges,” Sixteenth International Conference on Learning, University of Barcelona, Spain, July 3-5, 2009.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. “Linguistic Diversity and inguistic Educational Rights,” Ninth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, University of Riga, Latvia, June 16-19, 2009.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. “Kant, Derrida, and the (Im-)possible Education,” Seventh International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Beijing, China, June 2-5, 2009.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. (In abstentia, read by Nancy Nelson) “Kant, Derrida, and the (Im-)possible Curriculum,” American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS), San Diego, California, April 10-14, 2009.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. “Levinas’s Impossible Ideal of Education,” Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB), The University of Oxford, England, April 3-5, 2009.
Egéa-Kuehne, D. "Subjectification: Biesta’s Strong Link to Education.” Response to Gert Biesta’s “On the Weakness of Education,” The Philosophy of Education Society (PES) Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, March 20-23, 2009.
Selected Grants/Funded Projects
Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Printing and distribution: Artéfacts et tumulus de LSU: Étudions ensemble la culture des indiens de la Louisiane. S. Warny, PI/PD, Co-Pi, D. Egéa-Kuehne. 2009.
French and American Cultural Exchange Foundation (FACE). Washington, D.C.
Purchase of a five-unit Multimedia Mobile Computer Laboratory to be used off campus for teacher professional development projects. D. Egéa-Kuehne, PI/PD, Co-PI, A. Sgambato. 2007-2010.
Embassy of France in Washington D.C. and Consulate General of France in New Orleans, Louisiana
Communauté de Pratique - Organisational meetings at LSU, Baton Rouge (Dec 13, 2010); School Board, Lafayette (Dec 14, 2010); Alliance Française, New Orleans (Dec 16, 2010); and Consulat Général de France, New Orelans (Dec 17, 2010).
“PRO FLE: professionalization in teaching French as a foreign language,” for teachers of French as a foreign or second language who wish to strengthen their skills as part of a continuing training plan. Training method taught by distance learning which comprises 3 modules. In cooperation with the International Center for Pedagogical Studies, Paris, France. D. Egéa-Kuehne, PI/PD, Co-PI, A. Sgambato. 2009-2010.
Workshops and professional development of teachers of French. D. Egéa-Kuehne, PI, Co-PI, A. Sgambato. 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010.
Sustained development of the FEP online National Resource Center for the teaching of French as a second language and French immersion. D. Egéa-Kuehne, PI/PD, Co-PI, A. Sgambato. 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010.