I am a Senior Lecturing Fellow at
Duke University in Durham, NC. I coordinate a 3rd-year culture course, French for Current Affairs, that I teach along with French exchange teachers who come to Duke each year.
Teaching at Duke has been a wonderful experience in every way. I particularly appreciate the opportunity that it has given me to apply new technologies in the classroom.
Before teaching at Duke, I lived and worked in Strasbourg, France for two years. I worked as an English lectrice at Marc Bloch University and at Louis Pasteur University. I also taught two intensive courses in Business English at the ENA (École Nationale d’Administration). Additionally, in the Spring of 2006, I had the fortune of serving as Resident director for a study-abroad program sponsored by St. Joseph's University (Philadelphia). As well as coordinating the practical aspects of this program, I taught two intensive French courses.
My career as a French teacher began at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. I worked as a teaching assistant for 5 years while I completed my graduate coursework in Linguistics. I taught a wide variety of courses from elementary to advanced courses for French majors. At Indiana I was trained in Communicative Teaching, which I still practice today.
During my undergraduate studies at the University of Iowa, I was a double-major in French and Linguistics, which did not hinder my love-affair with France and French. I spent a semester studying in Pau, and a summer in Lyon. I spent another summer working at a Parisian cafe during the World Cup of '97. I have climbed the Alpes, skied the Pyrenées, and gone kayaking in the Ardèche.
At this time I am completing my doctoral dissertation in Second Language Acquisition. My thesis director is Dr. Laurent Dekydtspotter. I am expected to defend in May, 2009.
Before teaching at Duke, I lived and worked in Strasbourg, France for two years. I worked as an English lectrice at 
