Professor of French and Russian
Foreign Language and Literature Department
Fournier Hall, 2nd flr., Room 25A
215.248.7124
Educational Background:
- B.A., Chestnut Hill College, 1955
- M.A. in Russian, Fordham University, 1964
- D.M.L. in French and Russian, Middlebury College, 1971
Courses Taught:
- Russian (all levels)
- French Literature ( 17th, 18th, 19th centuries; Senior Seminar and Tutorial); Elementary and Intermidiate French Grammar and Composition
- FL 317: Special Methods in the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- ISP 315-316: Tradition and Risk - Educating Women
- Interdisiplinary Honors courses
Scholarly Interests:
- Russian and French Literature of 19th and 20th centuries
- Foreign Language Pedagogy
- History of SSJ in 17th century; College History, especially Chestnut Hill; Women's education
Awards:
- Fulbright Grant to France, 1967-1968
- IREX Grant to Soviet Union, Moscow and (Former) Leningrad, 1973, 1985.
- Palmes Academiques, from the French Government in recognition of outstanding efforts for the promotion of the study of French
Selected Publications:
- Tradition and Risk: Chestnut Hill College, 1924-1999. (Donning, 1999)
- Articles in L'Amitie Charles Peguy(Paris, France)
- Articles in Research Guide to Popular Fiction, Research Guide to Biography and Criticism, (Research Publishing), on French and Russian Authors
- Articles in Critical Survey of Drama, Critical Survey of Poetry, Critical Survey of Long Fiction (Salem Publishing), on French and Russian Authors
- Articles on Camus, The Plague, and Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, in MLA Approaches on Teaching series
