After spending a year as lecteur d'anglais in the Service Commun d'Étude des Langues Vivantes Appliquées (SCELVA) of l'Université de Rennes I, I received my formal training in the Dept. of French and Italian at The Ohio State University. During my graduate studies, I taught French language and literature at both Ohio State and at Brown University (Dept. of French Studies) and I taught English as a Second Language at English Language Center in Boston, MA during summer vacations. Upon completing my doctorate, I took a one-year position at the University of Rhode Island (Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures), taught at the University of Missouri (Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures) for two years and then came to Villanova (Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures) in 2003. When possible, my upper-level courses are cross-listed with the Honors Program, the Gender and Women's Studies Program, and the Africana Studies Program.

courses taught in past semesters (please see my c.v. for courses I taught before coming to Villanova)
FRE 1111 (Introductory French I). fall 2003.
FRE 1121 (Intermediate French I). fall 2007, fall 2004 (two sections), fall 2003 (two sections).
FRE 1122 (Intermediate French II). spring 2005 (two sections), spring 2004 (two sections).
FRE 1131 (Conversation and Composition I). spring 2010 (two sections), spring 2009, spring 2008, fall 2007, fall 2006 (two sections), spring 2006, summer 2005.
FRE 1132 (Conversation and Composition II, writing intensive). spring 2007 (two sections).
FRE 1133 (Advanced Grammar). fall 2006, spring 2005.
FRE 1136 and 1137 (Contemporary French Language I and II). Part of Villanova's summer program in Rennes and Paris, France. summer 2010, summer 2007, summer 2006.
FRE 2143 (Contemporary France). Part of Villanova's summer program in Rennes and Paris, France. summer 2010, summer 2007, summer 2006.
FRE 3211 (La chanson française depuis 1950, cross-listed with Africana Studies starting 2007). fall 2007, spring 2004. This course has produced the following interviews between students and music professionals.
FRE 3212 (Le Tour de France). summer 2008, summer 2005.
FRE 3412 (Special Topics):
   Arthur Rimbaud, poète maudit; writing intensive, spring 2006.
FRE 3512 (Paris, Capitale du XIXe siècle, writing enriched), spring 2010, fall 2004 (cross-listed with Honors)
FRE 3820 (Le vers libre). fall 2008.
Research Seminar; required course for French majors; writing intensive). spring 2008 (FRE 3412), spring 2006 (ML 2100 [taught in English to majors in FRE, GER, ITA])

teaching schedule, spring 2010:
FRE 1131 (Conversation and Composition I; two sections)
FRE 3512 (Paris, Capitale du XIXe siècle)

teaching schedule, summer 2010:
FRE 1136 and 1137 (Contemporary French Language I and II) and FRE 2143 (Contemporary France). Part of Villanova's summer program in Rennes and Paris, France.

teaching schedule, fall 2010:
FRE 1131 (Conversation and Composition I; two sections)
FRE 3718 (French poetry from 1789 to the present)

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.