FloMo East: Alondra, Cardenal, and Faisan

Centrally located on Mayfield Avenue, two minutes from Tresidder Memorial Union and five from the Quad, East Florence Moore Hall consists of three houses—Alondra, Cardenal and Faisan. With so many residents both living and learning together, life here is rich with opportunities to form tight bonds. Great student leaders remain tuned-in, emotionally open, and invested without getting embroiled themselves. East Flo offers the unique challenge and opportunity of working both locally (with individual house leaders and residents), and East Flo-wide (with East Flo student leaders and 100+ person events).

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Being a Student Leader

Being a student leader in the close community of East Flo requires empathy, energy, and lots of "flove." While SLE alums often come back to serve as student leaders, the East Flo student leader team as a whole has a mix of academic and residential backgrounds, just like our residents. The interactions among student leader groups, large and small, are highly collaborative and open: all student leaders, regardless of official position, are invited to bring their passions, perspectives, and talents to bear in providing excellent experiences for their residents.

Meet the FloMo East Resident Fellows

Resident Fellows, or RFs, are Stanford faculty and senior administrative staff who live in apartments or cottages adjacent to student residences and serve as leaders for their communities. Michaela Hulstyn is currently the Associate Director and lecturer in SLE and the author of Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness (University of Toronto Press, 2022) and Matt Callahan is an English Teacher at Castilleja School, a progressive independent school for girls in Palo Alto. Matt and Michaela met in an absurdist French literature class. They share two children (Hadley and Rowan), two dogs (Beckett and Kelby), and five bikes. They enjoy talking with students about all things outdoors (camping, cycling, trail running, hiking, rock climbing), education and its relationship to ethics, and of course, books!

Michaela current research explores the relationship between cognitive processes and aesthetic forms in the global French world, with a focus on decolonial and postcolonial world-making. Her writing has been published in Modern Language Notes, Philosophy and Literature, and Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, among other places. In SLE, she gives lectures on Augustine and autobiography, Frantz Fanon and decolonization in film. Michaela holds a Ph.D. in French from Stanford, and previously taught as an Assistant Professor of French at Florida State University and a VAP at Reed College. and in Stanford’s Hope House. She is also the Co-Coordinator and regular teacher in Stanford’s Hope House Scholars Program; please contact her if you would like to get involved!

Matt is a long-time educator with teaching experience from lower elementary through adult learners. He has taught in the US and abroad and is an advocate for transformational education. He holds degrees in Education, French, and History with a B.A. in History and French from UCLA, a M.A. in French and Francophone Studies from UCLA and a M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction from the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute, University of the Pacific. He also loves being the head coach of Castilleja’s Varsity and JV Flag Football teams.

About the Structured Liberal Education Theme

Structured Liberal Education (SLE) is a residence-based academic program housed in East Florence Moore Hall that encourages students to live a life of ideas in an atmosphere that emphasizes critical thinking and interpretation. Sometimes called “a liberal arts college experience” within the university, SLE focuses on great works of philosophy, religion, literature, art and painting, and film drawn largely, but not exclusively, from the Western tradition.

The SLE curriculum emphasizes artists and intellectuals who introduced new ways of thinking and new ways of creating to the world that have often overthrown or deeply changed tradition. Their contributions to intellectual history have redefined beauty, challenged the authority of conventional wisdom and institutions, and raised questions that remain important to us today. For good or ill, they helped create the world we live in.

Roland Greene, Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences; Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities; Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of the Stanford Humanities Center; Former Faculty Director of SLE
Alison McQueen, Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
Karla Oeler, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History; Faculty Director of ITALIC
Jeremy Sabol, Associate Director of SLE; Lecturer in SLE
Jas Wheeler, Upperclass SLE alumna
Elaine Treharne, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities; Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies; Robert K. Packard University Fellow in Undergraduate Education; Director, Stanford Text Technologies; Resident Fellow of Ng House
Greg Watkins, Former Resident Fellow of East Florence Moore Hall; Former Associate Director of SLE

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