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Dr. Boubakary Diakite Assistant Professor Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge French for beginners Intermediate French II Introduction To The Francophone World Francophone Literatures Francophone Poetry Immigration in France: Les Identités Francophopériques Francophone African Cinema Ethnicity in black literatures
Dr. Sarah Gendron Associate Professor Ph.D. 2001; University of Wisconsin-Madison 20th Century Literature and Literary Theory 18th Century Literature and Philosophy Poststructuralist Theory, Women's Studies Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge in the Works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze
Dr. Jeanette Kraemer Associate Professor Ph.D. 1974; University of Minnesota Second Language Education French Quebecois and Acadien Culture and Literature French Language Film Contemporary French Drama
Dr. Jean-Pierre Lafouge Associate Professor Ph.D. 1986; Indiana University Language All levels French Art and Culture 16-17th-Century French Literature 19th-Century French Literature Orientalism and Spirituality in Literatures, Cultures and Art "Étude sur l'orientalisme d'Eugène Fromentin dans ses récits algériens".
Dr. Steven Millen Taylor Professor Emeritus May 2011 Ph.D. 1976; Wayne State University Medieval French Language and Literature French for Business African Francophone Cinema The Trial of Womankind: A Rhyming Translation of Book IV of the Fifteenth-Century Le Champion des Dames Martin Le Franc Edited and translated by Steven Millen Taylor The Conception of Mary- A Rhyming Translation of Book V of Le Champion Des Dames by Martin Le Franc (1410-1461). Martin Le Franc Edited and translated by Steven MillenTaylor http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=8248&pc=9
Dr. Jennifer Vanderheyden Assistant Professor Ph.D. 1999; University of Washington XVIIIth century French Literature, Diderot, Theory of Theatrical and Artistic Representation The Function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot's Works Peter Lang Publishing 2004
Mr. David J. Wyatt Instructor MA 1990 University Illinois-Urbana Elementary French "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." These words by Saint Augustine explain how I have lived my life. I have been blessed to have spent time in many Francophone and non-Francophone countries. I studied Contemporary French Literature at the Sorbonne in 1986-1987. In 1999 I participated in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange, teaching English at the Lycée Ibn Khaldoun in Safi, Morocco. I participated in the Rotary Group Study Exchange in Osaka, Japan. In 2011, I traveled to Haiti with a group from the Milwaukee School of Engineering as aninterpreter on a volunteer mission to Jacmel, Haiti. My research interests include historical and comparative linguistics and dialectology. Research interests include historical and comparative linguistics and dialectology.

Dr. Boubakary Diakite

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

French for beginners
Intermediate French II
Introduction To The Francophone World
Francophone Literatures
Francophone Poetry
Immigration in France: Les Identités Francophopériques
Francophone African Cinema
Ethnicity in black literatures

Dr. Sarah Gendron

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2001; University of Wisconsin-Madison

20th Century Literature and Literary Theory
18th Century Literature and Philosophy
Poststructuralist Theory, Women's Studies

Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge in the Works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze

Dr. Jeanette Kraemer

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1974; University of Minnesota

Second Language Education
French Quebecois and Acadien Culture and Literature
French Language Film Contemporary French Drama

Dr. Jean-Pierre Lafouge

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1986; Indiana University

Language All levels
French Art and Culture
16-17th-Century French Literature
19th-Century French Literature
Orientalism and Spirituality in Literatures, Cultures and Art

"Étude sur l'orientalisme d'Eugène Fromentin dans ses récits algériens".

Dr. Steven Millen Taylor

Professor Emeritus May 2011
Ph.D. 1976; Wayne State University

Medieval French Language and Literature
French for Business
African Francophone Cinema

The Trial of Womankind: A Rhyming Translation of Book IV of the Fifteenth-Century Le Champion des Dames
Martin Le Franc Edited and translated by Steven Millen Taylor

The Conception of Mary- A Rhyming Translation of Book V of Le Champion Des Dames by Martin Le Franc (1410-1461). Martin Le Franc Edited and translated by Steven MillenTaylor

http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=8248&pc=9

Dr. Jennifer Vanderheyden

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1999; University of Washington

XVIIIth century French Literature, Diderot,
Theory of Theatrical and Artistic Representation

The Function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot's Works
Peter Lang Publishing 2004

Mr. David J. Wyatt

Instructor
MA 1990 University Illinois-Urbana

Elementary French

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." These words by Saint Augustine explain how I have lived my life. I have been blessed to have spent time in many Francophone and non-Francophone countries. I studied Contemporary French Literature at the Sorbonne in 1986-1987. In 1999 I participated in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange, teaching English at the Lycée Ibn Khaldoun in Safi, Morocco. I participated in the Rotary Group Study Exchange in Osaka, Japan. In 2011, I traveled to Haiti with a group from the Milwaukee School of Engineering as aninterpreter on a volunteer mission to Jacmel, Haiti.

My research interests include historical and comparative linguistics and dialectology.

Research interests include historical and comparative linguistics and dialectology.

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