Professor Mann joined the faculty of North Georgia College & State University in August, 1999.  He has been teaching French since the fall of 1984, and Spanish since the fall of 1989.  His area of academic specialization is 20th-century French narrative, and his dissertation, which he defended at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in July of 1999, is entitled "Constructive Criticism; the Poetics of Space and Enclosure in Selected Novels of Raymond Queneau." Professor Mann received his M.A. from the University of North Texas in French literature, with minor concentrations in Spanish and foreign-language pedagogy, in 1986.  He received his B.A. in French, Spanish, and secondary-school pedagogy, also from the UNT, in 1983.  His other domains of study and interest include music, philosophy, gastronomy, food science, cooking, physics, engineering, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and meteorology.

Dr. Mann teaches all levels of French and lower-division Spanish for the Department of Language and Literature, has served as its Interim Department Head, and in the Fall of 2006, will Head the new Department of Modern Languages. He has published articles, workshops, and book reviews on French literature and pedagogy, as well as in sociology. He directs the activities for Foreign Language Day in the spring and National French Week in the fall, and is the Unit Web Coordinator for the Language & Literature website. He offers a course in Conversational French through the Department of Continuing Education.

He has chaired of the Computer/Information Technology Literacy, Child Care, Discussion Forum, and Security & Access Committees, and currently serves on the Academic Activities Committee, the Institutional Research Board, the Discipline Committee, the Faculty Evaluation Committee, the Gender Studies Council, the Leadership Curriculum Committee, and the Department Head Retention Committee. He completed a two-year term as a departmental representative on the Faculty Senate in 2003, where he also served as Secretary, and has been elected to the at-large senate seat for the 2005-2007 term. He is the campus director for NGCSU's study-abroad program in Toulouse, France, and teaches French Culture & Civilization I for the University System of Georgia's French Distance-Learning Collaborative.  

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