I graduated from Amherst College in 2000 with a BA in French and am now a PhD student in the French Department at Vanderbilt University.  I have completed a minor in Spanish and am also pursuing a certificate in Latin American Studies through the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, as well as a certificate in teaching through the Center for Teaching. In the summer of 2006 I completed two graduate-level courses at the Universidad de Costa Rica in San José.

My literary interests include postcolonial and Jewish literature written in French and Spanish.  I also do research in second-language acquisition on varying topics, such as multilingual students in the foreign language classroom and the idea generation phase during the L2 writing process.  

SCHOLARSHIP:

• Co-editor for the 2009 AAUSC volume, "Principles and Practices of the Standards in College Foreign Language Education" (working title), under the direction of Prof. Virginia Scott (Present)
• Graduate research assistant at the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies (2006-2007); created a finding aid for a donation made to the Center by professor Felix Leakey.
• Fellow at the Center for the Americas.
• Member of the Applied Linguistics Association(ALA); treasurer and web master (2007-2008).
• Participant in the Circum-Atlantic Studies Work Group funded by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
• Contributer to the Les Fleurs du Mal: Selections from the W.T. Bandy Center exhibition in the Central Library (open from March 21st, 2006- April 21st 2006).

PEDAGOGY:

• Teaching Affiliate at the Center for Teaching (2007-Present).
• Participant in the  "Teaching Difficult Texts" seminar run by the Center for Ethics (Summer 2008).
• Participant in "The Pedagogy of the Difficult" seminar run by the Center for Ethics (Summer 2007).

TECHNOLOGY:

• Language Lab Assistant (Present).
• Webmaster for various Blackboard sites for French Department (French 101, 102, 103). 

• Moderator of panel at Vanderbilt's Graduate Student Research Day (2007)
• Member of the Graduate Student Council; Community Service Committe (2005-2006)
• Member of the Buttrick Students' Organization (2005-2006)
• Co-facilitator of Co-errance, a monthly graduate student meeting in the Department of French and Italian (2005-2006)
• Co-facilitator of the table francaise (2005-2006)