Hugues St. Fort

Educator, Translator, Linguist

Email: Hugo274@aol.com

ACADEMIC DEGREES 

Doctorate in Linguistics

Université René Descartes
Sorbonne, Paris, FRANCE, 1982

Diplôme d'études approfondies in
French Applied Linguistics

Université de la Sorbonne
Nouvelle, Paris, FRANCE, 1977

Master's in Modern Letters

Université de la Sorbonne
Nouvelle, Paris, FRANCE, 1975

Bachelor's in French Language and Literature

Université de Besançon, 1974

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 

1984 to present

Springfield Gardens High School, New York
FRENCH TEACHER
Teach French at all levels, including Regents and Advanced Placement (AP)

1998 to present

Kingsborough Community College, New York
ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Teach French to undergraduate students

1990 to present

The State Education Department at Albany, NY
CONSULTANT
Translation of official examinations from English into Haitian Creole and French

1992-1998

Board of Education of the City of New York
HAITIAN CREOLE TEST ADAPTER
Adaptation of citywide test materials into Haitian Creole

1993-1997

City College of the City University of New York
HABETAC, School of Education
ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Taught course on Haitian Creole language to elementary and secondary Haitian bilingual teachers

1987-1992

City College of the City University of New York
School of Education
ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Taught a course on Language and Culture of Haiti

1990-1991

Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
Taught French to undergraduate students

1987-1989

Bank Street College of Education, New York
Center for Language Minority Education
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
Taught course on Creole Linguistics

1987-1988

City College of the City University of New York
School of Education
ADJUNCT LECTURER
Taught Linguistics to graduate and undergraduate students

1984-1986

Queens College of the City University of New York
Linguistics Department
ADJUNCT LECTURER
Taught Linguistics and Creole studies to graduate and undergraduate students

1982-1983

Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique
ERA 754, Paris, FRANCE
LINGUISTICS RESEARCHER

1980-1981

Institut africain et mauricien de bilinguisme
Curepipe, Mauritius
COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR
Taught French in a bilingual college to students from Mauritius and Seychelles

1978-1980

Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique
ERA 754, Paris, FRANCE
ASSISTANT RESEARCHER IN LINGUISTICS
Traveled for field work in Haiti

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS 

Ability to conduct and synthesize research works and to explain and teach clearly and effectively. Excellent translation skills and very good human relations skills. 

NEW YORK STATE PERMANENT CERTIFICATION 

Teaching-Secondary Certification in French (7-12) 

PUBLICATIONS

(to access some online publications, visit Hugues' Web Site) 

"Language Politics in Haiti" in Proceedings of the Second Annual Haitian Studies Association Conference,Tufts University, June 15-16, 1990, vol 1, #1.

Lexical Creation in Haitian Creole. Mimeographed manuscript. Presentation made at Marist College, NY, December 1987.

Review of Language choice, language use, language attitudes of the Haitian bilingual community by Flore Zéphir in: Etudes Créoles, Volume xvi, #2, 1993, Didier Erudition, Paris, France.

Ki jan kominote ayisyen yo te fòme lan Rockland. Haitian Creole translation of Haiti on the Hudson: The Formation of the Haitian Communities of Rockland County. By Morton Marks, The Historical Society of Rockland County, New City, New York 1993.

Situation linguistique de la communauté haitienne de New York. Paper presented at the 67^th annual Convention of the American Association of Teachers of French, Québec, CANADA, July 1994.

Perceptions et présence de la France et de la langue française dans la communauté linguistique haitienne de New York. Paper presented at the 69^th annual Convention of the American Association of Teachers of French, Lyon, FRANCE, July 1996.

How is Haitian Creole spoken in formal situations? Paper presented at the Fourth International Creole Language Workshop at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, March 19-21, 1998.

Is there a need for monolingual Haitian Creole dictionaries in Haitian Creole speech communities? Paper presented at the Fifth International Creole Language Workshop at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, March 30 through April 1, 2000.

Review of Language Creation and Language Change. Creolization, Diachrony, and Development. Edited by Michel DeGraff, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1999, 573 pp, in Journal of Haitian Studies. A special issue on Edwidge Danticat, Fall 2001, Volume 7, Number 2.

"Le 'français haïtien' dans Gouverneurs de la rosée de Jacques Roumain: analyse et classement des particularités lexicales du roman". Forthcoming in L'actualité de Jacques Roumain, edited by Frantz Leconte.

Vodou, érotisme et Jacmel dans Hadriana dans tous mes rêves de René Depestre. Paper presented in March 2002 at the sixth colloquium "Création et Réalité d'Expression Française" organized by La Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'Amérique, at Fordham University.

Book reviews (forthcoming, May 2003, December 2003) in The French Review, the Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French.

In addition, since January 2002, Hugues has been writing a regular literary and cultural column in French for the Haitian-American weekly newspaper The Haitian Times (see: Du côté de chez Hugues). 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 

Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics

Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics

American Association of Teachers of French

Haitian Studies Association

Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'Amérique (Chief Editor of the journal Francographies, since 2001). 

Hugues St. Fort
Email: Hugo274@aol.com

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Edited and Internet-published by Marilyn Mason, d/b/a The Creole Clearinghouse