Education and Academic Degrees:

Harvard University, M.Ed. in French; Université René Descartes, M.A. in Clinical and Developmental Psychology; University of Dayton, B.A. Psychology, Minor in French.

Areas of Specialization:

Foreign language pedagogy, Caribbean Francophone literature

Representative Presentations:

"Learning to Read While Reading to Learn." With Emmanuelle Vanborre and Debbie Rusch, Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York City, NY, March 29, 2008.

"Incorporating Authentic Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom", North Quincy High, Quincy, MA, 2006.

“Littérature et film antillais à tous les niveaux”, Northeast Conference, New York City. Co-presented with Emmanuelle Vanborre, doctoral candidate at Boston College, 2004.

“Télumée nous parle, Euzhan Palcy nous montre : littérature et film comme points de départ pour un dialogue sur l’esclavage, la colonisation et leurs répercussions”, Fourth Annual Conference on Carribbean Literature, Freeport, Bahamas, 2003.

“Promoting Cross-Cultural Understanding”, SWCOLT(Southwest Conference on Language Teaching), San Francisco. Co-presented with Nathalie Drouglazet, doctoral candidate at Boston College,. 2001.

“Using Technology to Enhance a Communicative Methodology”, A.C.T.F.L.(American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), Boston. Co-presented with Debbie Rusch of Boston College and Marcela Dominguez of Pepperdine University, 2000.

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