French & Italian

           Adjunct Professors:  

Elsie Bouchette received at first a B.A. degree in Business Administration at the University of Olive Harvey in Chicago, where I lived for many years.  I completed my Bachelor of Arts in Modern French Literature at the University of New Orleans, as well, as my Master in Romance Languages-French option.  I was appointed as Teaching Assistant for some years at the University of New Orleans.

Khedidja  R.Boudaba  worked as a journalist in Algeria for 11 years. She came to the US on a fullbright scholarship for mid-career journalists in 1993. Her  carreer as a journalists was  interrupted as a result of political turmoil in her home country. In  the US, She worked as a free lance journalist  and a free lance translator/interpreter  and taught French at Chapelle High School for several years before resuming her education.   She received her M.A  in Romance Languages from UNO University in 2004 and her Ph.D.  in Linguistics and Anthropology from Tulane University in 2010. Her research interest encompass issues related  to  language, power and Gender.

Claire Lebas-Jones is a French native. She received a Licence de Lettres Modernes from the University of Caen in 1985 and a PhD in XIX and XX French Literature from Tulane University in 2001. Beside teaching at Tulane, she is teaching at the Alliance Française. Her interests are Detective novels from the turn of the XX century -and especially the serie of Arsène Lupin- , plurilinguism and children's literature.

Merry  Toups received her MA in French from the University of Missouri in Columbia.  She has lived and taught in France and has also taught English as a Second Language to international students preparing for study at American universities.   She began teaching at Tulane in 2009.

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.