Dr. Karen L. Gould, Provost & SVP
Karen L. Gould
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of French
Dr. Karen Gould joined California State University, Long Beach as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs on March 1, 2007, after serving as dean of McMicken College of Arts and Sciences and professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Cincinnati from 2001 to 2007, and as dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia from 1996 to 2001.
Dr. Gould has also held tenured faculty positions and additional administrative appointments at Bowling Green State University, Virginia Polytechnic University, and Bucknell University. She received her BA., cum laude, from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1970, a diploma from the Sorbonne, and her Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Oregon in 1975.
As the chief academic officer of CSULB, Dr. Gould provides academic leadership for the university and promotes excellence in all aspects of the university's academic mission, including undergraduate and graduate education, research and creative activity, international education, service learning, community engagement, service to the profession, and faculty and academic staff development.
Dr. Gould also plays an active role with the other 22 CSU provosts on the Academic Council of the 23-campus California State University system. She is a member of the systemwide Central Management System Executive Group, the CSU Provosts' Technology Steering Committee, and the systemwide Academic Council Steering Committee.
An internationally known scholar in the field of French-Canadian literature and former editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Québec Studies, Dr. Gould is the author or co-editor of six books and more than 50 articles and essays on contemporary Quebec literature, francophone women writers, and the modern French novel.
She has received numerous grants, fellowships, and awards for her research and has been honored with the Canadian Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies in 2003 and the Donner Medal in Canadian Studies in 2005 for her research and professional contributions to the field of Canadian Studies.
Active in the profession, she has served as president of the International Council for Canadian Studies, president of the American Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and as a member of the executive board of the national Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences.
