FABIENNEBAIDER
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ABOUT

PERSONAL DETAILS

BIO

ABOUT ME

Fabienne Baider holds a MBA from the Ecole Supérieure de commerce de Lille – Skema Business School, a B. A. Honours in French language and literature (UNISA, South Africa), a Master in French language and literature (UBC, Canada ) thanks to the UGF fellowship at UBC, a Ph. D. in Linguistics and Gender Studies (Univ. of Toronto, Canada) supported by the OGS and the SSHRC fellowships. Holding a tuition waiver for her Ph. D. at the University of California at Berkeley she did her Ph. D. courses there with Suzanne Fleischman as her supervisor. Having to go back to Canada for medical reasons, she finished her Ph. D. at the University of Toronto, having the honor to keep Susanne Fleischman on her Ph. D. committee (then supervised by P. Bhatt and A. M. Brousseau).

TEACHING

In South Africa and more precisely in Cape Town she taught French as a Foreign Language (FFL) in the German School and at Abbotts College for the Baccalauréat (final high school year). At the University of the Western Cape, as a lecturer she taught Universal Generative Grammar (at the time) and medieval literature, to students coming from the nearby townships. She was also part of a pilot project organized by the Alliance française in South Africa and taught French (FFL) in the Mitchell’s Plain Township in the primary and secondary schools.

In Canada as a Graduate Student, she was a teaching assistant in Phonetics at UBC(Vancouver), in Literature at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), and in FFL courses at the University of California at Berkeley. She also worked in Berkeley in Text to Speech Technologies (at the BST Company) for French phonetics.

As a Ph. D. Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto, she taught general linguistics and FFL courses in the French department as well as at Ryerson University. She was part of a team organized by the provincial government in Ontario to teach seminars on administrative and business writing, and she worked as well as a translator with F. Lachance for Medical Internet sites. She received two best paper awards during her Ph. D., the first one was granted by the CIEF (Conseil International des Etudes Francophones) and the other by the ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing).

After her Ph. D. she was an Assistant Professor at the Scarborough campus (U. of T. campus) where she taught phonetics, general linguistics and FFL courses.

Since the year 2001 she has been teaching at the University of Cyprus where she has been an Associate professor since 2009.

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

RESEARCH

Her fields of research include semantics within a cognitive and intercultural framework (see ECC Research programme and publications on this site), Language and gender (and more broadly language and identity within a constructionist perspective, see the publication list on this site). Her broad experience in teaching French as a Foreign Language encouraged her to develop an expertise in Applied Linguistics as far as interculturality and teaching the lexicon are concerned (see Fos-Mo project, Publications and Mentoring on this site).

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RESUME

EDUCATION
  • 1992
    1999
    TORONTO, CANADA

    Ph.D. in Collaborative Program French Linguistics and Gender Studies

    University of Toronto, Canada

    With the following scholarships: University Scholarship: 1992-1993: Open Graduate Scholarship Provincial Scholarship 1993-1995: Ontario Graduate Scholarship National-level Scholarship 1995-1998: SHRCC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Thesis: Linguistic Collocations and Semantic Contamination First Ph.D. in the collaborative program of Gender Studies
  • 1990
    1992
    VANCOUVER, CANADA

    Master in French Language and Literature

    U.B.C. (University of British Columbia)

    With the following scholarship: University Graduate fellowship 1990-1992 Thesis: Lexical borrowing from Germanic languages and German
  • 1985
    1989
    SOUTH AFRICA

    B.A. Honours cum laude in French linguistics

    UNISA (University of South Africa)

    Nominated for Best Honors essay
ACHIEVEMENTS
  • 2005
    2005

    Best Graduate Paper

    Nominated for carrying out assessment/evaluations of European Science Foundation proposals/report in the field of Linguistics.
  • 1998
    1998

    Best Graduate Paper

    Association for Computing in Linguistics

    The best Graduate Paper, the Association for Computing in Linguistics (ACL).
  • 1998
    1998

    Best Graduate Student Paper

    CONGRESS OF INTERNATIONAL FRANCOPHONE STUDIES

    The best Graduate Student Paper, the Congress of International Francophone Studies (CIEF)
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TEACHING

TEACHING HISTORY
  • 2020
    NOW
    CYPRUS

    Full Professor

    University of Cyprus

  • 2009
    NOW
    CYPRUS

    Assistant Professor

    University of Cyprus

    (Committee: Prof. Quereuil, Univ. Blaise Pascal; Prof. Houdebine-Gravaud, Univ. Paris-Descartes; Prof. Kibee, Univ. of Chicago)
  • 2001
    2009
    CYPRUS

    Assistant Professor

    University of Cyprus

    French Linguistics
  • 2000
    2001
    CYPRUS

    Visiting Lecturer

    University of Cyprus

    French Linguistics
  • 1999
    2000
    Toronto, Canada

    Assistant Professor

    University of Toronto

    Introduction to linguistics. Theoretical and practical phonetics
  • 1998
    2000
    Toronto, Canada

    Teaching Assistant

    Ryerson University

    Department of French and Spanish, Language courses (all levels)
  • 1996
    1999
    Toronto, Canada

    Teaching Assistant

    University of Toronto

    FRE 272: Introductory Linguistic Course JFI 225: Teaching and Learning a Second/Foreign Language - All Levels Language Courses.
  • 1992
    1993
    United States of America

    Teaching Assistant

    University of Berkeley

    Ph.D. Program and Intensive Summer Program Teaching Fellow
  • 1991
    1992
    British Columbia, Canada

    Visiting and Part Time Lecturer

    Simon Fraser University

    Introduction to French Literature
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PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS LIST
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10 Jan 2018

Online Hate Speech in the European Union

Offers unique insights on online hate speech by combining discourse analytic and corpus linguistics methods
Books and Special Issues F. Baider, S. Millar, S. Assimakopoulos

Online Hate Speech in the European Union

F. Baider, S. Millar, S. Assimakopoulos
Books and Special Issues
15 Nov 2016

Gender, Language and the Periphery

This volume aims to demonstrate that the centre/periphery tension allows for a theory of gender understood as a power relationship with implications for a political analysis of language structures, language uses and linguistic resistances.
Books and Special Issues F. Baider, J.Abbou

Gender, Language and the Periphery

F. Baider, J.Abbou
Books and Special Issues
08 Sep 2015

Affects, Apprentissage et Enseignement

The issue addresses several questions at the interface of affects and language learning, articulates theoretical reflections and teaching experiences. It aims to contribute to the development of new didactic strategies and to raise new questions.
Books and Special Issues F. Baider, G. Cislaru, Simon Coffey

Affects, Apprentissage et Enseignement

F. Baider, G. Cislaru, Simon Coffey
Books and Special Issues
08 Apr 2015

ACTS OF THE 30TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE

This volume brings together the contributions presented at the 30th International Colloquium on Functional Linguistics held in Cyprus in October 2006. The International Society of Functional Linguistics - created in 1976 by André Martinet and his disciples - celebrated its thirtieth anniversary on this occasion
Books and Special Issues F.Baider, M. Karyolemou, M. Katsoyannou

ACTS OF THE 30TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE

F.Baider, M. Karyolemou, M. Katsoyannou
Books and Special Issues
13 Mar 2014

Linguistic Approaches to Emotions

This book presents new issues in the study of the interface of emotions and language, and their use in social context. Two fundamental questions are tackled: the way different languages encode emotional information and the core role emotions play in languages' structure, use and learning.
Books and Special Issues F. Baider, G.Cislaru

Linguistic Approaches to Emotions

F. Baider, G.Cislaru
Books and Special Issues
07 May 2012

Intersexion. Langues romanes, langue et genre

The field of research which lies at the crossroads between language and gender is particularly fruitful: not only because it allows the exploration of the different 'genres' that prove to be relevant in the study of social relations expressed through speech (gender grammatical, sex and social gender of the people involved in speaking or referred to in a text, etc.), but also because it highlights the multiple power relations that are reflected in language.
Books and Special Issues F. Baider, D. Elmiger

Intersexion. Langues romanes, langue et genre

F. Baider, D. Elmiger
Books and Special Issues
05 Aug 2011

Labels and Features in Dictionaries

The first part, devoted to semantics, deals with lexicographical descriptions and equivalence problems in language dictionaries, including with regard to translation. The second part, of a sociolinguistic order, examines the diastratic marking carried out by arg., Fam. and pop. and the diatopic marking of the Belgian, Cypriot, Quebecois and Swiss varieties of French. Are such geolinguistic classifications founded? What is the status of the notion of "variant"? More generally, does the marking of the “unconventional” lexicon respond to current linguistic realities? How are reported values ​​marked, described and distributed in an electronic dictionary? Methodological proposals based on new theoretical frameworks are presented at the end of the volume.
Books and Special Issues F.Baider, M. Burston, E. Lamprou

Labels and Features in Dictionaries

F.Baider, M. Burston, E. Lamprou
Books and Special Issues
13 Nov 2007

La parité linguistique, Nouvelles Questions Féministes 26/3, 10

Social symbolism being conveyed and structured by language, it is a whole conception of the world that is involved in this question. The use of the so-called “generic” masculine is not called into question, although it systematically skews the social representation of women. Thus linguistic parity, the construction of non-discriminatory knowledge systems, the use of the feminine and the masculine for all human denominations, the effective recognition of women in social discourse, are indispensable instruments in the conquest of real equality
Books and Special Issues F. Baider, E. Khaznadar, T. Moreau

La parité linguistique, Nouvelles Questions Féministes 26/3, 10

F. Baider, E. Khaznadar, T. Moreau
Books and Special Issues
01 Apr 2007

Emprunts Linguistiques, Empreintes Culturelles

Resulting from the meeting of researchers from countries brought into contact by history, such as France, Morocco and Lebanon, Germany and Turkey, Turkey and Greece, and Cyprus, this collection focuses on the border between oneself and the other. Lines of questioning of a linguistic, sociolinguistic and communicational nature (through music) are open.
Books and Special Issues F. Baider, M. Karyolemou

Emprunts Linguistiques, Empreintes Culturelles

F. Baider, M. Karyolemou
Books and Special Issues
01 Jan 2004

Tourist Communication. Discursive Approaches to Identity and Otherness

This book deals with the role of speech in tourist communication. How does the discourse impose stereotypes and "tourist" ideologies? How does the construction of identity and otherness operate in discourse? A dozen authors lead in French and English an interdisciplinary reflection on the games and the challenges of the complexity of tourist communication. Three parts: gender, ethnicity and culture of tourist communication, analysis of communication discourse, semiotic and multimodal approaches
Books and Special Issues F. Baider, Marcel Burger, Dionysis Goutsos

Tourist Communication. Discursive Approaches to Identity and Otherness

F. Baider, Marcel Burger, Dionysis Goutsos
Books and Special Issues
01 Jan 2002

Language, History and Society, Women in French Studies 10

WOMEN IN FRENCH exists to promote the study of women writers and women in civilization in the French-speaking world. An additional purpose of the organization is to share information and concerns about the status of women in Francophone countries and in higher education in North America. WOMEN IN FRENCH is an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association and a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Books and Special Issues F. Chevillot, F. Baider

Language, History and Society, Women in French Studies 10

F. Chevillot, F. Baider
Books and Special Issues
01 Jan 2005

La communication touristique: Approches discursives de l’identité et de l’altérité

This book deals with the role of speech in tourist communication. How does the discourse impose stereotypes and "tourist" ideologies? How does the construction of identity and otherness operate in discourse? A dozen authors lead in French and English an interdisciplinary reflection on the games and challenges of the complexity of tourist communication. Three parts: gender, ethnicity and culture of tourist communication, analysis of communication discourse, semiotic and multimodal approaches.
Books and Special Issues F. Baider, M. Burger, D. Goutsos

La communication touristique: Approches discursives de l’identité et de l’altérité

F. Baider, M. Burger, D. Goutsos
Books and Special Issues
01 Dec 2004

Hommes galants, femmes faciles: Etude socio-sémantique et diachronique

This book retraces the stages of the socio-cultural construction of the male / female opposition from a large body of computerized texts. We discover how the pejoration that affects the feminine paradigm is dependent on the institutional role of linguistic use and norms. By its subject and its methodology, this work is intended for all those interested in the history of the language, sociolinguistics, lexicology and semantics of French.
Books and Special Issues F. Baider

Hommes galants, femmes faciles: Etude socio-sémantique et diachronique

F. Baider
Books and Special Issues
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RESEARCH

RESEARCH PROJECTS

MIGDISCY

Project research director

Internal Research Programme UCY University of Cyprus 35. 000 Euros

Discourse analysis on migration representations in press and social comments in CY

IMsyPP

Project partner

EU co-funded research – action program, within the framework Rights, Equality and Citizenship DG Justice
  • For UCY: 67 000 euros
  • For the consortium: 450 560 euros
  • Automatic Detection of Triggers of Hate speech
  • Tagging data collected by other teams
  • Creating a counter speech proposal
  • Creating a database of state of the

Hate Speech on/off line vs. Promoting Empathy, H.O.P.E

Project Leader

Internal Research Programme UCY University of Cyprus 51. 000 euros

An interdisciplinary project combining discourse analysis and psychology analysis as well as tools. The objective is to test the impact of contextualized counter and alternative narratives to hate speech.

Support and advice through health system for hate crime victims, SHELTER

Project partner

EU cofounded project within the framework Rights, Equality and Citizenship DG Justice REC-RRAC-RACI-AG-2017 For UCY: 38 000 euros For the consortium: 325. 650 Euros

Leader : Universitad de Castilla- La Mancha 7 partners (4 NGOS and 3 universities) A research action project which focuses of mapping the interactions between health staff and victims of hate crime. Data analysis involves interviews and questionnaires of staff and victims. We as team organise as well training for students and staff related to legal knowledge about rights of hate crime victims and to ways of detecting potential hate crime victims. One Master student hired for administration help

Dénominations et catégorisations de la personne dans le monde du travail (NHUM)

PROJECT PARTNER

Project MISHA:Some traveling expenses paid for each research events

Leaders: Univ. Strasbourg (France) & Univ. of Bochum (Germany)

Ongoing project in creating a data basis of human nouns (a sequel of the ANR, see below), organization of panels and symposiums on semantics of human nouns I worked with Amalia Todirescu on the semantics of the words statut and function for the last two years.

Creating an Online Network To Counteract hate speech Tactics (C.O.N.T.A.C.T.)

PROJECT LEADER

EU co-funded research –Action project within the framework Rights, Equality and Citizenship DG Justice JUST/2014RRAC/AG/HATE/6706, C.O.N.T.A.C.T 810.000 Euros, 175.000 euros for UCY Univ of Cyprus leader (12 teams, 10 countries, 7 NGOs 5 universities) in cooperation with Greece, Spain, Italy, Malta, Denmark, United Kingdom, Poland, Lithuania, Serbia. It was the first time UCY was coordinating a Social Justice program

The project gathered 7 NGOs and 5 universities. It combined research on hate speech via social media and social actions. Social actions included media events, round tables and training for law enforcement, media and the youth. The training were carried out with one Cypriot NGO.

We carried out the research part of online data and of interviews. We also organized media events publicly attended whether at the University, at the EU house, or at different NGOs events A final conference allowed to disseminate the results and have major publications such as the Springer volume available on line

Two Master students were hired in the programme to help in the administration and to carry out research (we published in the Springer book 2 chapters as a team)

LogXR, Discourse of the Extreme right (Greece, Cyprus and France)

PROJECT LEADER

Building of a extreme right discourse data basis with video, articles in press, online comments etc.

The data basis is trilingual Greek and French. It covers Golden dawn in Greece, Elam in Cyprus and the Front national in France.

  • Post doc (€15 000 Jan. 2013- 2014)
  • Research Assistant Sept. 2014 - March 2015 (€5 500)

Univ. of Cyprus and Cypriot Government

Teaching French as a Second Language and Communicative Practices (FOS-MO)

PROJECT LEADER

This project gathered material so as to teach French as a foreign language in Business as well as in Medicine within the Middle East context. The approach is intercultural and sociolinguistic. One Master student and one PhD were hired for collecting data

Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)

€20 000 (May 2012 – May 2014)

F. Baider organizer and coordinator.

Partners included

  • Univ. Libanaise (Lebanon)
  • Univ. of Mansourah (Egypt)
  • Univ. of Damascus (Syria)

Emotion, communication, teaching a foreign language (ECLE)

PROJECT PARTNER

Leader : Univ. of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 8 different European univ. in the UK, France, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland

Yearly financial support from Belgium national research center

Creation of an international network for researchers working on creativity and affects in teaching and learning (5 different countries with yearly meeting).

So far we have organized 4 panels in international conferences and one conference. We have published four volumes (3 special issues and one book)

This network allowed one PhD student to co-author 3 articles

Semantics of the Human Nouns

PROJECT PARTNER

Leaders: Univ. Strasbourg (France) & Univ. of Bochum (Germany)

Association nationale de la recherche (ANR), €120 000 (Jan. 2012-Jan. 2014)

I was invited as plenary of one of their symposium and then was responsible for the feminization of the nouns

Gender and voice (la voix troublée)

PROJECT PARTNER

Leaders: Univ. Aix-en-Provence (France) and Univ. St Joseph (Lebanon)

P.E.P.S. €4000 (Janv. 2012 – Dec. 2012)

Contrastive Semantics and Intercultural Communication

PROJECT LEADER

Organizer and Coordinator

The 2 year program investigated and recorded testimonies, narratives and interviews as well as questionnaires related to 5 emotions within the Cypriot society and the French society.

Outputs

  • One international conference
  • A contrastive data basis spoken and written
  • 1 volume, John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam
  • 1 volume at the Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, France
  • 1 special issue with a Scopus referred journal: Langage et l’homme

Internal Research Programme,University of Cyprus

€68 000 (April 2010- March 2012)

Results: Network Affect Teaching and Learning (8 universities)

Réseau Interdisciplinaire de recherches sur les manuels scolaires et leur environnement (RIME)

PROJECT PARTNER

Coordinator M. Verdelhan, Leader: University of Montpellier.

Research on Gender representations in the textbooks used in FLE classes

One PhD student collected data and co-authored two chapters.

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ADMINISTRATION

TEACHING HISTORY
  • 2002
    NOW

    Erasmus program

    In this role I initiated and established our department’s Erasmus program in 2002, securing bilateral contracts with 15 French-speaking universities in Europe. Since the launch of the European studies programme, we have also signed bilateral contracts with a number of German-speaking universities. On average we send 10 students for the Erasmus exchange and receive 7. In 2019 we sent 12 students and received 11 (mainly from France, Belgium and Germany ). We have on average 2 students in each of our Master seminars.
  • 2017
    NOW
    CYPRUS

    Erasmus ad hoc committee

    An Erasmus ad hoc committee has been created in order to facilitate the student exchanges at all levels, Master and Bachelor degrees. Within the Erasmus framework I have also organized a number of bilateral conventions for professors and students, the most recent being with Bar Ilan University.
  • 2010
    NOW

    Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie

    I represent UCY at the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, a responsibility that entails my participation in their meetings and my dissemination of any information regarding the possibilities they offer for exchanges and funding. I also monitor the communication with the CONFREMO, which is the association of all Rectors in the Middle East - AUF. We plan to have the CONFREMO general meeting in 2020 at UCY
  • 2011
    2014
    Cyprus

    Campus Europae

    University of Cyprus

    I am the Campus Europae officer for UCY (section Humanities), https://campuseuropae.org/ this is a European organisation similar to but less well-known than the Erasmus program. It was established to enhance student mobility, to develop new concepts and solutions that will improve the quality and the experience of studying abroad. One such example is the platform Speak Up!, an online platform with language courses, developed by partner universities to help student integration. I have also held several positions in which I act as representative of my department or of the Faculty of Humanities, at the faculty, at the senate and on several senate committees: Department Representative at the Senate, 2016-2018 Department representative, Faculty Board of the Humanities, 2010 – 2015 and 2019- present
  • 2016
    2018
    Cyprus

    Department Representative

    Department Representative at the Senate
Senate Comitees
  • 2019
    NOW

    Senate committee - Representative

    Ryerson University

    Representative for the Faculty of Humanities on the Committee for a Green university
  • 2015
    2017

    Senate Commitee

    Representative for the Faculty of Humanities on the Committee for International Relations
  • 2005
    2007

    Senate Commitee

    Representative for the Faculty of Humanities on the Committee for national relations
  • 2015
    2017

    Senate Commitee

    Representative for the Faculty of Humanities on the Committee for International Relations
  • 2009
    2010

    Senate Commitee

    Representative on the Research Committee for the Faculty of Humanities
Department representatives
  • 2019
    NOW

    Language Centre Representative

    Also from 2004 until 2009
  • 2010
    2013
    Cyprus

    Vice president of Department

    University of Cyprus

    Also on 2019
  • 2018
    NOW
    Cyprus

    Library Coordinator

    University of Cyprus

    Also from 2000 until 2008
  • 2013
    2015

    Chair of French and European Studies Department

    During the renewal of the launch of the new programme as well as during the move to the new campus
  • 2010
    NOW
    Cyprus

    Graduate studies coordinator for the Department

    University of Cyprus

    I worked together with E. Lamprou and A. Lampropoulos to establish the first regulations and texts for the Master and PhD studies.
  • 2012
    NOW
    Cyprus

    Member of the Graduate committee for Gender Studies

    University of Cyprus

    Evaluation of new students for Master and PhD
  • 2006
    NOW
    Cyprus

    Member

    University of Cyprus

    Member of many committees, e.g., for hiring temporary staff in all disciplines of the department, for hiring permanent staff for the department and the Language centre, president of the committee for the promotion of a colleague to Assistant professor
  • 2017
    NOW
    Cyprus

    Member of the Graduate studies committee

    University of Cyprus

    Also from 2010 until 2014
  • 2001
    2005
    Cyprus

    Organiser

    University of Cyprus

    Organised all committees for hiring temporary teaching staff in linguistics track
  • 2000
    2010
    Cyprus

    Coordinator

    University of Cyprus

    Coordinator of the undergraduate program, Linguistics Section
  • 2000
    2004
    Cyprus

    Web Page Creator and Administrator

    University of Cyprus

    knowledge of HTML and XGML
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CONTACT

Get in touch!

University of Cyprus,
Department of French Studies and Modern Languages
Po Box 20537, CY 1678 Nicosia | Tel: +357 22 89 43 88 | Fax: +357 22 89 43 87
Email: fabienne@ucy.ac.cy | helenfab@yahoo.fr