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I studied at the University of Yaoundé, Cameroun and the Université de Dijon, France where I earned the Licence ès Lettres and the DIPLEG. I later attended the University of Oregon and graduated with an M.A. in French and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages with emphasis in francophone African Literature.
I enjoy teaching all levels of French. Recent upper level courses I have taught include “Le Roman québecois”, Le Théâtre négro-africain, “Black cultural nationalisms”, and Les Romancières noires d’expression française. I also teach Ethnic Studies as well as Freshman Studies.
My research interests include francophone literature, drama and cinema. My articles and book reviews in these areas have been published in journals such as Langues et Littérature, The French Review, Comparative Drama, Ufahamu Journal and Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.

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Over my combined careers as student and teacher, I have spent quite a bit of time in French-speaking countries. It has been important training for me personally, socially, and intellectually and I think our department prepares our students for exactly that kind of experience. I’m excited about our new curriculum, which gives me the opportunity to teach what I think are the most interesting moments in French history and culture through some of my favorite texts and films (and my tastes are wide-ranging: I love Marie de France and Montaigne, I love Diderot and Sand, and don’t even get me started on what I love about 20th and 21st century literature, art, and history). I hold the B.A. in English and French from Carroll College and the Ph.D. in French literature from the University of California, Berkeley. I have published mostly on autobiographies by late 20th and 21st century authors (my list includes Barthes, Beauvoir, Butor, Cardinal, Cixous, Kofman, Nimier, and Perec) and am currently experimenting with life writing to see what it’s like from the other side.

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I am grateful to be part of a department that has worked together on crafting an exciting array of courses in French and Francophone Studies.  We invite you to sample our courses that range from beginning French through the senior seminar, crafted by students and professors working together.  I love teaching about my current research on the novels, plays and cinema of the Nazi Occupation of France in WWII.  I’ve been privileged to teach at all levels and find that Lawrence students always make my time in the classroom an enjoyable learning experience.  My B.A. is from Knox College, where I majored in French and psychology.  I have an M.A.T. degree from Portland State and taught French at the secondary level before returning to school for my M.A. in French at University of Iowa and my P.hD. at University of Wisconsin—Madison.  I have edited a book on Marguerite Yourcenar and published articles on Yourcenar, Aimé Césaire, Louis Malle’s films on the Nazi Occupation, and yes, trauma and tattoo!

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I left my hometown of Madison WI in 1997 after completing a Bachelor’s degree in French at the University of Wisconsin. Since then, I have spent most of my time traveling, teaching, and studying, first earning an M.A. in French Studies from Middlebury College, then a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan. Therefore, joining the Lawrence faculty represents a sort of homecoming for me, and I feel extremely fortunate to work and share ideas with the engaged, motivated, and committed members of this unique learning community.

Several critical approaches and intellectual disciplines fuel my teaching and research interests. Any given course I teach will incorporate diverse genres and media (printed texts, lithographs, paintings, music, advertisements, films, etc.) taken from various centuries and francophone cultures. That said, my main passion lies in nineteenth-century French literary, revolutionary, and cultural studies. I am particularly inspired by the work of Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, and Jules Vallès, especially in relation to the 1848 Revolution and the Paris Commune of 1871. Currently, I am working on a book manuscript that uses Media Studies as a way to think about how nineteenth-century depictions of revolutionary action both positively and negatively influenced how revolutions were represented, judged, and enacted after 1848.

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I earned my BA in French and International Studies from Manhattanville College and an MA in French from UW-Madison where I am currently completing a Ph.D dissertation on festivity in texts and manuscript illuminations of late medieval French romance and chronicle.
I also earned a Swiss degree in French literature from the late middle ages through the seventeenth century at the University of Geneva, and I have also completed graduate studies in Belgium.
I love teaching French. I especially enjoy sharing the cultures of the Middle Ages and French-speaking countries with my students through the sampling of regional cuisines and via the wonderful latest computer technology available in the classroom.

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I received by BA in French and my BS in Microbiology, as well as my MA in French from the University of Oklahoma. Currently I am completing my PhD dissertation at the University of Wisconsin. My dissertation is entitled: “L’exil et la la quête d’une Humanité dans l’œuvre de Chedid et de Schehadé”.

Besides my interest in teaching French language and literature, I also enjoy teaching Arabic language. My research interests also includes modern Arabic novel with emphasis on contemporary Lebanese writers.