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GEORGIA LITERARY COMMUNITIES MEMBERSHIPS

Northeast Georgia Literary Society (NEGA), 2025-present. Board of Directors secretary, 2026.

The Atlanta Writers Club (AWC), 2021-present. Best Manuscript Sample award for The Architect’s Eye at the Atlanta Writers Conference, November 2021.

Founder of the AWC-sponsored Memoir Network Group, 2024-26. The group assists memoir and narrative nonfiction authors getting ready to publish. We meet in person monthly, taking turns to present on topics related to publishing and marketing. I also send out a newsletter that highlights upcoming topics, provides opportunities for involvement and cross-promotion, shares free resources, and updates our quickly growing email list.

AWC-sponsored Kelley Cody-Grimm Critique Group, 2022-26. The group meets online twice a month, members submitting up to 6,000 words and receiving oral and written feedback. The group focuses on fiction and non-fiction works of literary merit that push boundaries through unique perspectives and distinct voices.

SHORT FILMS on YouTube

Memoir Network: Identifying your Audience, 2025. Meet our Memoir Network writers as we share our book’s logline, highlight key selling points, and identify target audiences. https://youtu.be/HsG5mDfTOj0

Southbound on Peregrine, a 1986 Tashiba 40, 2019, 4.2K views. A cruise down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway aboard our Ta Shing 40 in Oct-Nov 2012, and a tribute to our son Stuart Manley Spangler, who died at age 18. https://youtu.be/V2kcNjxYCDE

Impressionist Architecture: The Tour Eiffel, 2019. The interdisciplinary approach identifies impressionist features such as the secularization of art, short brushstrokes of unmixed color painting technique, and painting outside in the plein air, and translates them into the architecture of the Eiffel Tower, also erected during the Belle Epoque. https://youtu.be/1BbkybEloX8.

Cubist Architecture: The Villa Savoye, 2017, 10K views.The interdisciplinary perspective portrays Le Corbusier’s 1931 house as a Cubist work, with the conceptual modernity of a “machine to live in,” light from multiple sources, and a “free plan” that creates an inside/outside ambiguity. Moving along the ramp invites visitors to engage in a Cubist experience. https://youtu.be/U7OVxyL-z68

Sv-peregrine.net. Blog on the trips we took on our Tashiba 40, Peregrine, and in particular, the cruise down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Oct.-Dec. 2012.

Peregrine, a 1986 Tashiba 40, 2015, 27K views. A video I made for my husband, Dickie. https://youtu.be/ndOtpEOZsTc

PUBLICATIONS: Short Stories and Literary Criticism Essays

“When you have an accent, people don’t see you as an individual but through the clichés they associate with your country. The prejudice is positive in my case. In the American eye, being from Paris makes me intelligent and sophisticated. Once, a guy asked me, ‘Are all French women like you?’ I nodded vigorously and replied, ‘Absolutely, just like all American men are like you.’ I saw in his eyes that my sarcasm only reinforced his prejudice that all Parisians are witty. How annoying.” —May Spangler, “Taking the Oath.”

“Taking the Oath,” short story, winner of the tales2Inspire contest, “Turning the Page.” Published in the Moonstone Collection, Book 2, February 2022. In the 2000s, emigrants to the United States could not take American nationality without “absolutely and entirely” renouncing their country of origin. My short story focuses on the moment I took the oath in 2006 and lost my French citizenship.
“What Makes Paris More Beautiful under the Rain,” critical essay, Peter Lang Blog, 2018. An article on “Midnight in Paris” (Woody Allen, 2011). What makes Paris more beautiful under the rain?
“Postmodern Anthropomorphism in Birga’s Beaubourg,” critical essay, Academia.edu, 2015. Sergio Birga’s 1976 painting, “Main basse sur la ville,” shows the developers’ failed attempt to fill in the “Trou” des Halles, and indicates the postmodern to be a condition rather than a style, with its center a self-engulfing hole, deconstructed from its threatening banlieue.
“Gavroche at the Bastille,” critical essay, Academia.edu, 2014.
“L’Hermaphrodisme monstrueux de Diderot,” critical essay, Études Françaises, vol. 39, No. 2, 2003, p. 109-21.
“Les Monstres textuels dans le transformisme de Diderot,” critical essay, Diderot Studies XXIX, 2003, p. 137-60.
“Paxos by Night,” short story, first prize in La Passion et autres nouvelles. Paris: Atelier Z, p. 9-19, May 2003.
“L’Utopie postcoloniale de L’Île mystérieuse,” critical essay, Francophonia vol. 44, Spring 2003, p. 77-98. L’Île mystérieuse
“Images of Paris: Big “C” Culture for the Non-Speaker of French,” critical essay. French Review, vol. 75, No. 4, March 2002, p. 756-69.
“Folie parisienne: le massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy,” critical essay. JAISA, vol. 7, No. 1-2, fall 2001-spring 2002, p. 1-14. Folie parisienne
“The Saint-Bartholomew’s Fragmentation.” A poster for the exhibition “Science and Art: shared Frontiers” in the Schatten Gallery, Emory University, January-May 2001.
“Mireille,” short story. The Prose Menagerie, Cara Swann ed., http://www.geocities.com/Sotto/Studios/5116/index.html, June 2000.
“Avenue des Ternes,” short story. The White Crow, Osric Publishing, July 2000.
“Un Portrait dans un coin de robe (Julie, lettre II-25),” critical essay. Littératures, vol. 42, printemps 2000, p. 75-84.
“Science, philosophie et littérature: le polype de Diderot,” critical essay. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’Encyclopédie, vol. 23, October 1997, p. 89-107.

BOOK SIGNINGS

Book signing for Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art. MLA Convention in Chicago, 2019. With my editor, Meagan Simpson, Acquisitions Editor at Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.

Book signing for Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art. AESA Conference in Greenville, Georgia, 2018. With fellow writer at Peter Lang, Virginia Lea.

Presentation and book signing for Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art, at Druid Hills Golf Club, Atlanta, September 2018. The Barnes and Noble bookstore at Emory University facilitated the sale of the forty books they had ordered, selling out. The presentation, titled “Impressionist Tour Eiffel: a Bridge to the Sky,” showed how the 300-meter-high tower reaches the low-level cloud layer of Stratus, Cumulus, and Stratocumulus. It brings its visitors up into the clouds like a vertical bridge between land and sky.

Presentation and book signing for Papa a dit, Maman aussi. at the art gallery of Atelier Z, June 2017, Paris, France.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT EMORY UNIVERSITY

Visiting Assistant Professor, 1996-2003, and Teaching Assistant, 1991-96:

French Language: grammar, composition, conversation, and writing skills
Fr170S Freshman Seminar: “Images of Paris” (in English)
Fr314 What is Interpretation?
Fr314 Reading Cultural Artifacts
Fr341 Studies in the Classical Period
Fr350 Readings in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Fr351 Studies in the Modern Period
Fr361 Topics in Translation: “Images of Paris” (in English)
Fr387 Visual Culture: “Images de Paris” (in French)
Fr387 Visual Culture: “Windows in the Modern Culture”
Fr478 Special Topics Literature Seminar: “Literary Monsters”

ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS IN PARIS AND ATLANTA

Renovation of an apartment building on the Avenue de la Grande Armée, Paris, 2002-20. It includes the creation of a 25m2 studio and a 40m2 apartment on the attic floor, and the renovation of the ground-floor entrance, stairway, three 66m2 apartments, and one 160m2 apartment.
Renovation and management of duplexes at Stillwood Dr. and Virginia Ave., Atlanta, 2006-15.
Renovation of houses in Atlanta. Self-employed, 1987-91.
Graduate Architect, Rabun and Hatch Architects, Inc. Atlanta, 1984. Designer for Houston’s Restaurants and project designer for the adaptation of modular construction system from European to American standards.
Intern Architect, Helfrich and Briles Architects, Atlanta, 1980-83. Designer for the Turner Broadcasting System offices on William Street, Atlanta, and the Turner Broadcasting Headquarters in Atlanta, New York and Dallas. Designer for condominiums and houses in Atlanta and Hilton Head.
Intern Architect, Atelier Remondet and Atelier Taieb, Paris, 1978-79. Design and preparation of drawings for the extension of a school. Renovation of apartments in Paris. Design and working drawings for a hotel.