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Summary

Currently back to school, at ESSEC Business School (french n°2 top business school) Master of Science in Management.

Former teacher in University of Brest (faculty of literature), and a specialist of japanese comics (manga) industry.

 

I wrote the handbook "Grapholexique du Manga" about japanese comics graphic symbols in 2006. I was also a former specialized journalist for french japanese comics and animation review Animeland, and a professional translator of japanese comic-books in french langage.

 

As a teacher, I offered the first regular academic course about japanese comics in a western public University.

Objective

I want to bring value in the marketing world, particularly in online marketing, by applying new models and ways to build strong relationships with customer audiences.

Work History

University of Western Brittany

Brest, France
2006 - 2010
Teacher 

Technics for French as Second Language (graduate level) : epistemology of language teaching, modern language teaching, grammar teaching, phonetics teaching.

French grammar (undergraduate level), french language for foreign students (european Erasmus program, chinese students).

Introduction to japanese comics (historic, aesthetical, and narrative aspects).

International Center for Pedagogic Studies

Sèvres, France
2005 - 2007
DELF french language international exam building Team member 

As a member of the "DELF scolaire" team (official french Ministery of Education diploma of elementary level in french language for foreigners), I built complete exams items using European Common Framework for Languages.

Ministère de l'Education nationale

France
2001 - 2006
Teacher 

Teacher in Highscool and Junior Highschool in Paris region. I trained highschool pupils to the french Baccalaureat french exams. I also organized foreign pupils french section in junior highschool.

Education

Sorbonne University

Paris, France
Master's degree, Linguistics

D.E.A. en Sciences du Langage.

Certifications

Japanese Language Profiency Test

(Foundation of Japan)

Level 2 reached in 2002.

Description : "The examinee has mastered grammar to a relatively high level, knows around 1,000 kanji and 6,000 words, and has the ability to converse, read, and write about matters of a general nature. This level is normally reached after studying Japanese for around 600 hours and after completion of an intermediate course".

Premier prix - 1997 Japanese speech constest

(Université d'Aix-en-Provence)

Premier Prix of 1997 japanese speech contest open for South of France students.

My Book

Grapholexique du Manga

grapholexique

A "visual lexicon" for graphical symbols that readers can find in japanese comics, published in 2006 (Eyrolles Publisher). I wrote the text, supervised all original illustrations and all copyrighted material.

I also wrote a blog (now discontinued) about how I built it.

Teaching

Students analysing manga pages

Manga course

This is a photograph taken in 2008 during my introduction course to japanese comics, by local journalist of Le Telegramme de Brest.

You can read the story here.

Icon_pdf_16 Dossier de didactique de la grammaire

Graduate level exam : instructions to build an unit to learn a particular french grammar skill.

Blogging

A l'assaut du XXIème siècle

My Blog

Personal site and blog, publishing news about "Tsutaetai" online manga project and other subjects I care.

Narrative engineering

Icon_doc_16 Le Héros est arrivé - Un stratagème narratif japonais

This is an short essay, originally published in french review Animeland, wich consists in a narrative analysis of a very often used scene pattern in japanese stories. French language.