Martine GERONIMI, PhD
Department of Urban and tourist Studies (DEUT)
UQAM (University of Quebec in Montreal)
Case postale 8888
Succursale centre ville
Montréal H3C 3P8
Phone : (514) 987 3000 # 8741 (office); (819) 363-2310 (home)
Fax: (514) 987-7827 (dept/fax secretary)
E-mail : tourama2001@yahoo.com
Professional Profile
Dynamic, enthusiastic, proactive teacher, passionate with challenge, highly motivated and dedicated to Students.
Talented researcher in tourism and cultural geography, highly creative and innovative.
Desire to work as a cooperative team member
Proficient in windows and Macintosh environment; extensive experience with PowerPoint, MS word, MS Publisher and WebCt3 platform
Teaching Geography
Finishing Postdoctoral Fellowship, CELAT-UQAM (Interuniversity Centre on Literature, Arts and Traditions) and Canadian Research Chair in Urban Heritage.
Assistant Editor, TEOROS: An International Journal of Tourism research in French since 2001
Assistant Professor, UQAM, Department of Geography since 2002
*Ph.D., GEOGRAPHY, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada, 2001.
*MASTER OF ARTS, GEOGRAPHY, University of Laval, Quebec, CANADA 1996.
*Other schools attended: University of LYON III France, GEOGRAPHY Department, 1975-1978, Licence (BACHELOR OF ARTS), GEOGRAPHY; University of LYON II France, HISTORY Department, 1983.
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Professional Experience
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Geography Department
2002 Tourism Geography Course for Undergraduate Student
* Successfully realised experiment with WEBCT3 platform
* Developed complete web course
* Conceived special web design
* Elaborated and designed 20 PowerPoint presentations presented on campus and available for student on WEBCT platform
* Operated Internet and videos within classroom
* Elaborated electronic portfolios method in order to help students creating their own Website and collaborative portfolios
* Gave students opportunities to participate in course content by sharing their work in Class and on WebCt3 platform.
* Supervised 30 students' progress through WebCT attendance.
* Encouraged and gave support on-line to students at anytime, even on week end
2000-2001
Master Class: International tourism Culture
Prepared students to international environment
Undergraduate: tourist geography and European culture
Taught North-European Country, including Great Britain, Germany and Sweden
Geography department
2 sessions 1998, 1999
Introduced students to geographic fields, urban geography, landscape and tourism, the case of Quebec City
Conducted students to tourist-historic city visit in Vieux-Québec.
Prepared students for survey techniques with social actors (tourists, local tradesmen, city planners)
Organised meeting with Quebec city planner’s board for students
Made students aware of social impacts related to the alteration of central district by City planning, the case of Mail St-Roch in Quebec City
Geography department
2 sessions 1997, 1998
Taught History of Geographical Thought from Antiquity to now.
Introduced Students to the history and development of ideas in Geography,
Discussed some of the classic texts of geographical enquiry from the period 1500- 1900 exposed students to various schools of thought in the geographic discipline
assisted students to develop critical and analytical capability
Graduate teaching assistant, Prof. Guy Mercier, Geography department, 1994-1996.
1994
Teacher in tourism geography and French art and architecture,
Prepared undergraduate students to become professional guides.
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cultural geography, French people in America. American tourists, architecture and tourism, literature and myths, leisure society.
RESEARCH REALISATIONS
2001-2002 Postdoctoral Fellowship
with Luc Noppen and Lucie K. Morisset.
Research Project: Urban regeneration, Montreal Bohemian City, Le Plateau Mont-Royal. Culture for a better quality of life
Main researcher (Project responsible)
Research Project: Adaptation to Information Technologies at UQAM; Strategies emerging from Teachers' attitudes and behaviours at the University level.
Collaborative preparation (brainstorming)
Developed survey’s questions
Coordinated and supervised Interviews
Analyzed results and written final report
2000-2001 Doctoral research fellow, Geographic Institute Sorbonne- Paris I Pantheon and CNRS-ISIS (Tourism Strategies and Information), Marne la Vallée University, Georges Cazes supervisor
Conducted research on Leisure Park and Regional Development: Disneyland Paris’ New Deal. (Forthcoming paper)
1999 Doctoral research fellow, College of Urban and Public Affairs, UNO, Jane Brooks supervisor, professor in Urban Planning and Historic Preservation.
Conducted doctoral research in New Orleans for my thesis
1995-1997 research Assistant in History of Geographical Thought, Guy Mercier supervisor, FCAR subsidized Project: Vidal de la Blache, French Geographer.
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PUBLICATIONS
(*forthcoming)
*M. Geronimi " Imaginaire touristique et consommation des paysages culturels: le Vieux Carré et le Vieux-Québec", Cahiers de l'Imaginaire (en évaluation)
2002 " Géographie touristique et TIC, un mariage heureux". À venir
2003 Ouvrage collectif bilingue sur les Capitales Mondiales à publier chez Belin PARIS: plusieurs auteurs approchés lors de la réalisation du numéro de Téoros ont accepté (Gérard Beaudet notamment)(ARTICLE sur le Vieux Québec en cours)
2003 (M. Geronimi) " Géographie des lieux et Guides Internet les régions touristiques du Québec", Mappemonde PARIS(en préparation)
2003 (M. Geronimi) " Tourisme et Identité : la requalification urbaine du Quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve à Montréal", (en cours) TEOROS
To be published:
(M. Geronimi) "Entre patrimoine et tourisme, deux villes de mémoire française en Amérique, Québec et la Nouvelle-Orléans", (Publication chez Belin, éditeur collection Mappemonde)
To be published:
2002 Bédard F., Geronimi M., Final report on Adaptation to Information Technologies at UQAM; Strategies emerging from Teachers' attitudes and behaviours at the University level
Published:
2002 (M. Geronimi) " Québec et la Nouvelle-Orléans, villes de mémoire française en Amérique. Géographie comparative des paysages patrimoniaux et touristiques du Vieux-Québec et du Vieux Carré", Annales de Géographie
2002 (M. Geronimi) " Le French Market à la Nouvelle Orléans ; alibi patrimonial et mise en scène touristique d’un espace préservé", Ethnologies, 24 -1/2002, volume spécial intitulé Space/Espace
2001 Panorama du tourisme des jeunes en France, Téoros, vol 20, no 3 Automne 2001
2001 (M.Geronimi), "New Orleans's French Market, Preserved Past, Heritage Pretext and Commercial Glorification." Society for the study of architecture in Canada (SSAC), Automne 2001,
2001 (M.Geronimi), " Parade Zulu et carnaval indien, un mardi gras différent à La Nouvelle Orléans." volume 23, Dans Ethnologies volume spécial intitulé Festival/Non festival, 89-122
2001 (M.Geronimi), " Imaginaire français en Amérique du Nord : genèse d’un tourisme de distinction à Québec et la Nouvelle-Orléans, Anthropologie et Sociétés", volume 25, numéro 2, 151-170.
1999 (M.Geronimi), " Images du Vieux-Québec : construction d'un paysage de mémoire française et consommation touristique." Stadel, Christoph, dir. Themes and Issues of Canadian Geography III/Beitraege zur Geographie Kanadas III, Salzburger Geographische Arbeiten, vol. 35, Salzburg, 77-97
1996 (M.Geronimi), " Québec dans les discours des guides touristiques, 1830-1930. " Canadian Folklore Canadien 1996, volume 18, no2, volume spécial, Transactions identitaires, 70 90
1999 (M.Geronimi)- Permanence paysagère et consommation touristique : le cas du Vieux-Québec, Cazelais N., Nadeau R. et Beaudet G., dir. L’espace touristique, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec 199-212
2002 (M.Geronimi), Téoros, vol21, no 1 Janice Deledalle-Rhodes (2000), L’Orient représenté. Charles Montagu Doughty et les voyageurs anglais du XIXe siècle, Bruxelles, Peter Lang
2001 (M. Geronimi) Anthropologies et Sociétés, volume 25, no 2, Franck MICHEL (2000), Désirs d’Ailleurs. Paris, Armand Colin, pp.179-180.
2000 (M. Geronimi) Anthropologies et Sociétés, vol. 24, no 2, AMIROU, Rachid (1995) Imaginaire touristique et sociabilité du voyage. Paris, Puf (Coll. " Lle Sociologue ")
1999 (M.Geronimi), Canadian Folklore Canadien, (automne) NOPPEN LUC et MORISSET Lucie K. (1999) Québec de roc et de pierres. Québec, Éditions MultiMondes et Commission de la capitale nationale du Québec.
1999 (M.Geronimi), Cahiers de géographie du Québec, vol. 43, no120, BARBIER,B et ROSCISZEWSKI, M (1998) La Pologne. Paris, PUF (Collection "Que sais-je").
1999 (M. Geronimi) Ethnologies, vol. 21, no 2, LE MÉNESTREL, Sara, Tourisme et identité en Louisiane , Paris, Belin
1998 (M.Geronimi), Cahiers de géographie du Québec, vol. 42, no115, GRIGNON, Marc (1997) Loing du Soleil. Architectural Practice in Quebec City in the French Regime. New York, Peter Lang (Collection "American Universities Studies", vol. 165).
1998 (M.Geronimi), Cahiers de l'imaginaire, (automne) no 16, symposium : L’Ouest français et la Francophonie nord-américaine, Paris l’Harmattan.
2001 (M. Geronimi) Imaginaires français en Amérique du Nord, Position de Thèses, Inter-géo Bulletin, 2/2001, Paris Prodig, CNRS, pp. 53-55
2002 (M. Geronimi) Imaginary France in North America. Comparative geography of the heritage and tourist landscapes of the Vieux-Quebec in Quebec City and the Old Square in New Orleans. Tourism Geography, An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment, Routledge.
2002 (M.Geronimi), " Tourisme dans les villes Capitales ", Téoros, vol. 22, no 1, Spring 2002
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Selected Presentations
2001 " Imaginaire Français en Amérique du Nord, l'espace du Carnaval à la Nouvelle-Orléans ", CELAT, Uqam november 28
2001 " Urbanisme et Préservation dans deux villes de mémoire française en Amérique ", Institut d'urbanisme, Université de Montréal, november 20
2001 " Espace touristique, décor patrimonial, ambiance française : Le French Market à la Nouvelle Orléans ", Département Études urbaines et touristiques, UQAM, november 15
2001 " Tourisme et Aménagement urbain. Les cas de la Place Royale à Québec et du French Market à la Nouvelle-Orléans ". Département de Géographie, UQAM, november 8
2000 " Espace touristique, décor patrimonial, ambiance française : le Vieux Carré à la Nouvelle-Orléans Séminaire IFIS, Université Marne-la-Vallée, Groupe Stratégies Touristiques et Information, December 1st
2000 " Reinvented French traditions in North America: a comparative study of the space and time of Carnival in New Orleans, Quebec City, and Nice ", Cabildo Museum, New Orleans, Mardi Gras conference, March 3
1999 (M. Geronimi) " Image-makers of Old Quebec in the 19th century ", Conférence SWACS, New orleans, january, 30-31
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GRANTS:
2002 CIFORT (International Center for Tourism Training and Research), 10 000 $ can
2001-2002 CELAT Postdoctoral fellowship (Interuniversity Centre for Literature, Arts and Traditions), Montreal, , 10 000 $can
2001-2002 Canadian Research Chair in Urban Heritage, Montreal, 10 000 $can
2000 CELAT doctoral fellowship (Interuniversity Center for Literature, Arts and Traditions), Quebec city, 3000 $Can
1999 Louisiana State and CODOFIL (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana), 3000 US $
1998-1999 Desjardins Foundation, President Grant and Quebec Museum of Civilization, Funds for excellence 5000 Can $
1998-1999 Quebec Museum of Civilization and Faculty of literature university Laval, Doctoral fellowship, 3000 Can $
1997-1998 Quebec Museum of Civilization and Chair for the development of research on the culture of French expression in North America (CEFAN), 3000 Can $
1996-1999 Funds for excellence, Laval University Foundation, 10 000 can $/year (3 years)
1996-1998 Departmental research Grant, Geography Department, Laval University, 3500 $/year (3 years)
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LANGUAGES
French: Native speaker
English: Reading, writing, listening, speaking good.
Polish: Reading and writing good.
German: Reading and writing good.
FOREIGN RESIDENCE AND TRAVEL
1994-1999: Canada (Quebec City).
-1994: France
1983-1993: Travelled extensively in western and eastern Europe, Poland in particular.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Nationality: French.
Canadian residency: 1999 to present.