French & Italian

           Adjunct Professors:  

Jon M. Lord is a Swahili instructor. He has a B.A. from Louisiana College and a Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary in Louisville. He completed an intensive, six month study of Swahili at the Baptist Language School in Limuru, Kenya using the Foreign Service Institute materials. Tanzania is the best place to learn Swahili, and Jon lived there, with his wife Lisa, from 1987-1994. Other Africa service was a three year stint in Johannesburg from 2003-2006. Jon is a U.S. Navy veteran, holds a private pilot's license, and is an elder in the United Methodist Church, presently serving as the minister at the Carrollton U.M.C.

Marie Ensie Paul is doing her Ph.D at the University of Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle in the field of Sciences of language. She has published in 2005 : « Langue et exclusion sociale en Haïti » - in Recherches Haïtiano-Antillaises, N°1 et 2, Paris éditions l’Harmattan and « Quelle politique linguistique pour Haïti ? » – in Revue du Ministère de l’Education Nationale Haïtien and in Le Nouvelliste 27/04/05. In 2007, she published : Créolisation linguistique et sciences humaines : actes du colloque, Paris, Editions P.U.H.A. Forthcoming : « Le pays en dehors et les politiques linguistiques » in Actes du colloque : La Démocratie du dehors, organisé par le réseau Etat de droit saisi par la philosophie; « Ressemblances et dissemblances entre le créole haïtien et le créole Guadeloupéen » – in Etudes Créoles; Quel avenir pour les langues créoles ? (éd.) in Recherches Haïtiano-Antillaises N°7. Paris, éditions l’Harmattan.

Mialy Rajaonson received her Ph.D in French from Tulane University. A specialist in Francophone literature, Ms. Rajaonson's dissertation was titled "Les fonctions du paysage dans le récit littéraire francophone: les démarches d'une représentation."  

Nicole Verdan is a French native. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Modern French Literature and her Masters in Science of Language and in French as a Foreign Language from the University of Lyon 2. She is currently enrolled in an Interdisciplinary Ph. D at Tulane. Her areas of interests are Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition and Intercultural Communication. She has taught French at Universities (Lyon, France: Geneva, Switzerland, Bielefeld, Germany), in Schools of Languages (Alliance Française, American Center of Provence, French Scandinavian Institute) and International Organizations (CERN,Who and United Nations) in Geneva.