Department of Foreign Languages 
 
 
 

University of New Orleans 
 
 
 

NEWSLETTER 
 
 
 
 

Vol. VIII, 2005-2006 
 
 
 
 
 

Welcome to the UNO Department of Foreign Languages Newsletter.  We are pleased to share again some of our news and goings-on with the interested public, local schools and universities, our alumni, as well as with the larger UNO community. 
 

The present edition of the “Newsletter” covers events that unfolded between 5/05 and 12/06. 
 
 

The Department of Foreign Languages confronted the historic Fall 2005 semester (the “Katrina” semester) with great determination and team spirit.  All the members of the faculty reported to duty electronically from wherever they had evacuated by 9/10/06.  Dr. Elaine Brooks, Associate Professor of Spanish, appointed Acting Chair by Dean Susan Krantz while Dr. Eliza Ghil was still stranded in her apartment in the French Quarter post-Katrina, deftly reconstructed the schedule for “Katrina Fall 2005” semester that was about to open on 10/10/06.  UNO was the only university in the New Orleans area to attempt to re-launch the Fall 2005 semester after the hurricane, and that attempt turned out to be a success. 7, 000 students registered for that semester, and our department came through with courses in French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish, with some of them offered on-site in UNO’s satellite locations-the main campus reopened only in 12/05-and with most of them offered on-line.  The faculty raised to the occasion of teaching “on-line” with gusto, and the students’ determination to salvage something from their ravaged lives, i.e., their education made that semester a labor of love for all concerned (see also “Special Feature”). 
 
 
 

Important personnel changes occurred in Foreign Languages since May 2005, both on the faculty’s side and on the staff’s side. 
 

Retirements 

Dr. Rayford Shaw, Assistant Professor of Classics-in 5/2005.  He retired after 37 years of delighting students with declensions, conjugations and etymologies. 

Dr. Victor Santi, Professor of Italian and former Chair of the department-in 12/05.  An internationally renowned Machiavelli scholar, he was the pillar of strength for our Italian offerings (undergraduate) and Romance Cultures offerings (graduate). 

Dr. John Perret, Associate Professor of French-in 8/06. He was one of the founders of our French major and of our graduate program, and retired with distinction after 40 years at UNO. 

Resignations 

Faculty

Dr. Tony Beld, Assistant Professor of French-in 8/06.

Ms. Elena Casillas, Instructor in Spanish-in 8/06. 

Staff

Mr. Ernest Mackey, Administrative Specialist II-in 7/06. He moved to the Department of Political Science at UNO, and remains our friend and occasional collaborator. 

New Hirings 

Full-time 

Mrs. Celeste Conefry, Instructor in French (MA in Romance Languages-French, UNO, 8/00; and ABD in French, Tulane University at present). 

Mr. James McAllister, Instructor in Spanish (MA in Romance Languages-Spanish, UNO, 5/00 and in French, UNO, 12/04). 

Mrs. Valérie Steinmetz –Weeks (MA in Romance Languages-French, UNO, 12/05) as Executive Associate for Academic and Office Management and Instructor in French. 

Part-time 

Mr. Christian Carlsen, Fulbright Fellow from Austria as part-time Instructor of German(with degrees from Pädagogische Akademie des Bundes in Salzburg, 5/2006). Mr. Carlsen’s presence at UNO was entirely financed by the Fulbright Commission of Austria for 2006-2007, a gift for which we are very grateful. 

Mr. Raúl Alvarez, part-time Instructor in Spanish (M.A in Romance Languages-Spanish, UNO, 12/03). 

We said a fond goodbye to our retirees who are in touch with us and remain our friends.  We wished “good luck” to our colleagues and staff members who resigned from the department last summer.   

In memoriam 

We learned with sadness of the passing on of two of our retired colleagues in hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: Dr. Donald Tappan, Professor Emeritus of French in 10/05 and Mr. David Sandberg, Assistant Professor of German in 12/05.  They were valuable members of our department for many years; we honor their memory and miss them greatly. 
 
 

Retired Faculty 

Our retired faculty who stayed in touch with us post-Katrina appear to have fared reasonably well during the hurricane and its aftermath: Drs. Jerry Nash, James O’Leary, Kathryn Wildgen and John Williams (French); Drs. Allen Chappel and Marvin Bragg (German); Drs. Alicia Aldaya, Dorothy Bratsas and Dolores Walker (O’Connor) (Spanish).  As for the latter professor emeritus, she braved all vicissitudes, and went on with her scholarly endeavors: she published two articles in the scholarly journal “Wadabagei: A Journal of Diasporas”, in 2005 and 2006, respectively; and her book manuscript tentatively entitled “ “Let the Poor and the Rich Go!” Spanish Women and War, Class and Conscription in the Late Nineteenth Century” will be published by the LSU Press.  

Enrollments

The department maintained acceptable enrollment numbers in all foreign languages in Spring 2006, under the circumstances of the post-Katrina recovery. Approximately 1,700 students were enrolled in our courses, all languages and levels combined.  While UNO’s enrollment remained stationary between 1/06 and 8/06, i.e., at the level of 11,700 approximately, or about 67% of our pre-Katrina public, our department experienced a 10% increase in the Fall of 2006, all languages and levels combined.  Some languages fared better than others in the new set of circumstances created by the recovery.  French, Italian and Spanish went up in 8/06 compared to 1/06, while Chinese, German and Japanese were stationary.  We were gratified to see that, after a year of interruption, Latin 1011 and 1012 could be offered again, and with respectable enrollments. 

The department continued to maintain a healthy presence in the university’s programs abroad, as had been our tradition for many years.  Several colleagues served as Academic Directors or as instructors in such programs in the summers of 2005 and 2006, e.g., Dulce Menes, Instructor in Spanish-as Academic Director of UNO-Costa Rica Summer Program in San Ramón, Costa Rica(both summers); Ms. Pia Köstner, Instructor in German-as Instructor in the UNO-Innsbruck Summer School, in Innsbruck, Austria(both summers); Dr. Elaine Brooks-as Academic Director and Dr. Denis Augier-as Instructor in UNO’s “Glories of France” program in Montpellier, France (both summers); Ms. Elena Casillas, Instructor of Spanish -as Instructor in the “UNO in Madrid” program (7-8/06) and Dr. Julie Jones as its Academic Director the previous summer (2005). 
 

We had slightly under 20 majors in French and slightly above 20 majors in Spanish in 2006.  As for our graduate program, our M.A. in Romance Languages: after a severe enrollment drop experienced in the French option in 1/06, our figures stabilized in 8/06 (10 students); the Spanish option held its ground well throughout 2006 (17 students in 8/06). 

Research 

On the research front, we mention as a highlight Dr. Maria del Carmen Artigas’s book “Segunda antología sefaradí: Continuidad cultural (1600-1730)”, Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2005, 350 pp. This volume came out during the “Katrina” semester.  

Other Accomplishments 

The Department weathered the SACS Accreditation review of 2005 without any requests for adjustments in our Mission Statement and Institutional Effectiveness Plan (IE).  The members of the Ad-Hoc Committee on SACS Accreditation matters- Drs. Artigas, Augier, Brooks, Cranmer and Ms. Dulce Menes- deserve the department’s heartfelt thanks. 

The Faculty 

Professors 

Dr. Eliza Ghil (French and Chair) gave an interview on UNO and the “Katrina” semester published in the cultural magazine Conexiuni,  that appears in Romanian with a wide circulation in New York City(11/05).  She read a paper on the troubadour Gaucelm Faidit at the 40^th International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI (5/6/05). She conducted research on the troubadours and their legal imagery at Columbia University in New York (Fall ’05), and taught three courses on-line, in French and Italian, during the “Katrina” semester.  She took over the courses on “Comparative Romance Cultures” previously taught by Dr. Victor Santi (ROML 6205 and 6207), and she is teaching them now on-line.  She was re-appointed Chair of Foreign Languages for 3 years starting 8/06.  She continued to serve as a Vice-president of the UNO Federation of Teachers, our union affiliated with AFL-CIO. 

Dr. Maria del Carmen Artigas (Spanish) saw her book project on Sephardic poetry brought to completion in the Fall of 2005 (see above).  She also published an article on Yaacob Yeuda Aryeh Léon in “Maguén” (July-September, 2005) a scholarly publication that appears in  Caracas, Venezuela. She read a paper on Cervantes at the State University of West Georgia in Atlanta where she conducted research as well (October-November, 2005).  She also conducted research on her many projects in Barcelona, Spain (1/06), in Buenos Aires, Argentina (5/06), and at the University of Tucumán, Argentina where she also read a paper (5/06).  She continued to serve as our very efficient Graduate Coordinator for Spanish, and her recruiting skills have become legendary.  She also chairs our Public Relations Committee. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dr. Manuel García-Castellón (Spanish)spent his sabbatical leave that coincided with the “Katrina” semester at Baylor University in Waco, Texas where he also read three papers: on New Orleans in the 18^th century, on Spain in the Philippines and Mariana Islands, and on “Guaman Poma: an Indian Chronicler”. In 2006, he had his article on the poet Luis Silva Cuti reprinted in “Palara”, a special volume published by the Afro-Latin American Research Association.  An article of his on Teodoro M. Kalaw was published in “Revista Filipina” that appears on-line, in the summer of 2005.  He read three papers at scholarly conferences between March and May 2006: at the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain (on Junot Diaz), at the University of North Texas, Denton (on Teodoro Kalaw and orientalism), and at the LASA Conference in San Juan de Puerto Rico, 3/26/06(on the Spanish abolitionism of the XIX-th century).  He held a research appointment at Baylor University during his sabbatical leave (Fall’05).  He is an elected member of the departmental Advisory Committee at present, and has served on the departmental Scholarship Committee for many years. 
 

Dr. Julie Jones (Spanish) published an article on Buñuel’s movie “Los olvidados” in the “Journal of Film and Video" (Winter 2005-2006), and has in press another article on Carlos Saura, to appear in the “Quarterly Review of Film and Video”. She read papers on Buñuel at the conference on “Visual Synergies: Fictional and Documentary Film in Latin America”, at the Royal Holloway College, London, and at another conference in Cambridge, England (6/23-26/06).  She also read a paper on related subjects in New York City in 11/06.  Dr. Jones has served on the departmental Scholarship Committee in 2005, and serves in our Courses and Curricula Committee at present.  She has been the departmental representative on the Courses and Curricula Committee of the College of Liberal Arts since 2004, and was elected a member of UNO’s Hearings Committee in Spring 2006. 

Associate Professors 

Dr. Denis Augier (French) spent his sabbatical leave (Spring’06) working on an ambitious book project on alchemy in the works of Maurice Scève (“Délie” and “Microcosme”).  He is preparing a session on “Italianism and the Seventeenth Century” (chairing and reading a paper) for the convention of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature to take place in Lincoln, NE (4/07).  He continued to serve as our Graduate Coordinator for French (since 8/03), and was appointed by our dean to the newly constituted Liberal Arts Graduate Committee in 10/06.  He taught for “Glories of France”, both in the summer of 2005 and in the summer of 2006. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dr. Elaine Brooks (Spanish) published “ Basic and Intermediate Spanish for students of UNO”.  Fall 2005/Spring 2006 edition of Dicho y Hecho (Wiley & Sons), with help from Dulce Menes.  She participated in the review conference dedicated to the textbook ¡Anda! (Burrston House Publishers), held in New Orleans(3/17-19/06). She rose beautifully to the occasion of being Acting Chair in Fall ’05, and lead the department from Sacramento, California, with assistance from Dr. Eliza Ghil who was based in New York City, in an experiment in academic leadership unprecedented in the annals of UNO.  She continued to serve as our most efficient Undergraduate Coordinator in Spanish, as the chair’s appointee on our Advisory Committee, and as an elected member of our Undergraduate Grade Appeals Committee. She was Academic Director of “Glories of France” (Summers of 2005 and 2006), and a team member for the Latin-American Recruitment Initiative (Fall’06). 
 

Dr. Jean Cranmer  (French)continued through the Summer of 2005 as co-producer and co-anchor of the French radio broadcast “Rendez-vous”, that used to air weekly on WRBH, 88.3 FM in New Orleans and other adjacent areas.  Discontinued because of the hurricane, the program is expected to be re-launched in the near future.  She continued to serve as a UNO senator from the College of Liberal Arts (since 8/05).  She also continued to serve on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the International Studies Major.  She has been our Undergraduate Coordinator for French since 8/04, and is the chair of our Scholarship Committee.  Outside UNO, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the French American Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana.  On the personal side, 2006 was a momentous year for Dr. Cranmer: she suffered the heartbreak of losing her mother in June 2006; but she also experienced the joy of getting married in October 2006, to the delight of her friends and colleagues. 
 

Assistant Professors 

Dr. Joke Mondada (Spanish and French) read five papers at scholarly conferences between 10/05 and 11/06.  She has been concentrating on discourse analysis of trickster stories and spider stories from Brazil of late, a country in which she conducted research in the past two summers (2005 and 2006). On the service side, 2006 was a vintage year for her: she is now chair of both the Advisory Committee and the Undergraduate Grade Appeals Committee after having been elected to both committees and both positions.  She is also fast becoming one of our “Blackboard” experts in both French and Spanish. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dr. Juliana Starr (French) joined our department in 8/05 and had been our colleague for 10 days when Katrina struck.  She rose to the occasion of teaching in a deserted city with aplomb (10/10/06 on), and continued with an unusual level of energy and success ever since.  She has one article submitted for publication at present.  She read four papers at scholarly conferences between 10/05 and 11/06, with authors such as Flaubert and Zola as objects of her study.  She was elected to two important departmental committees in 8/06: the Advisory Committee and the Undergraduate Grade Appeals Committee, a sign of the respect that she earned from her colleagues in a very short time. Outside UNO, Dr. Starr is a member of the New Orleans Opera chorus and sang in the Gala featuring Placido Domingo last March, and in other performances. 

Instructors 

Retained Instructors 

Ms. Dulce Menes (Spanish) has continued as our Foreign Languages Lab Director uninterruptedly, and administered Placement Tests in 12/05 while commuting from Houston, TX where she had evacuated post-Katrina.  In 2006, we established a temporary Foreign Languages Lab in LA 243 (her office) since our usual location (LA 350) was still under repair through the fall of 2006.  She is teaching on-line with great vigor and is a leader (together with Dr. Brooks) in the drafting of the “protocol” for on-line language courses (1001,1002, 2001) that we hope to adopt as a departmental tool next term for all language courses offered on-line.  She collaborated with Dr. Brooks on the customized syllabi for UNO students of the textbook Dicho y Hecho  (see Dr. Brooks’s entry, above). She is at present our departmental representative on the committee on technology of the College of Liberal Arts (STPIG).  Together with Dr. Tony Beld, she had won for our department an important grant from that entity in 5/05.  She is also a member of the departmental Scholarship Committee at present.  She was Academic Director of the UNO Costa Rica Summer Program in San Ramón, Costa Rica (both summers of 2005 and 2006). 
 
 

Lisbeth Philip (Spanish and French) read a paper on “Social Network and Bilingualism” for the LSU Linguistic Association in Baton Rouge, LA, during her presence in that city to which she had evacuated post-Katrina.  She lectured on “Bilingualism and Bilinguality in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica” for the UNO Honors Program (Spring 2006). She is one of our foremost experts in distance learning at present, and conducted several Blackboard workshops for our faculty starting with December 2005.  She teaches regularly both French and Spanish on-line. She has conducted research on phenomena of bilingualism in Costa Rica (6-7/06), and may do so again in the near future.  She is an ABD in Applied Linguistics from Tulane University where she hopes to earn her Ph.D. in the coming years.  She is a member of our Public Relations Committee. 
 
 

Full-time Instructors 

Valeria Hallett (Spanish) is one of our experts on distance learning at present.  She is teaching on-line sections of 1001 and 1002 regularly, and has helped training our newly hired instructors in Blackboard use in July-August 2006, thus earning the gratitude of the chair and the coordinators.  She participated in the first UNO Blackboard workshop and earned the UCC Blackboard Certification Training Diploma in 10/06. She represented us with flair in the “Get to Know UNO” recruitment fair (11/11/06). Outside UNO, she has been volunteering for the cleaning of the City Park and other urban areas ravaged by Katrina in New Orleans.  She is a member of our Public Relations Committee. 
 

Pia Köstner (German) taught on-line sections of 1001 and 1002 with great success since 10/05.  She was the team leader for Foreign Languages in the “Get to Know UNO” recruitment fair (11/11/06). She was an instructor in the UNO-Innsbruck Summer School both in 2005 and in 2006.  At the departmental level, she is an elected member of the Advisory Committee and of the Undergraduate Grade Appeals Committee, and a member of our Programs Abroad Committee as well.  She pursues a doctoral degree in Applied Linguistics at Tulane University at present. 

Clifton Meynard (Spanish, French, Italian, Latin) is the winner of the unofficial “Versatility Award” in our department, and taught three languages for us in 2006 (Italian, Latin, Spanish) with great success. He was elected a member of the Advisory Committee and of the Undergraduate Grade Appeals Committee in 8/06, and was subsequently elected also secretary of the former committee. 

Part-Time Instructors 

Asian Languages 

We acknowledge the contribution to UNO’s Foreign Languages Department made by our continuing part-time colleagues in Asian Languages: Mrs. Noriko Lastrapes (Japanese) and Mrs. Qing Yang (Chinese). Mrs. Lastrapes has acquired considerable skill in teaching Basic Japanese on-line of late, an activity undertaken successfully during the “Katrina” semester, during our Intersession of January 2006, and then throughout 2006.  Mrs. Lastrapes was the lead faculty member in a grant application submitted by us to the Japan Foundation in November 2006.  We thank both colleagues for their generosity in agreeing to teach for us courses at the intermediate level with an “Independent study” format in order to help those few students in need of a 2001 course to be able to graduate. 

Other languages: 

Mr . Raúl Alvarez taught two sections of Spanish 1001 for us with great aplomb this fall while also being employed by Tulane University.  He may return to UNO in the near future. 
 

Mr. Javier Cortés de Jorge, also an alumnus of ours, taught for us with great competence one section of Spanish 1001 on-line in Spring 2006, from Chicago, where he had relocated post-Katrina. He holds college teaching jobs in the Chicago area as well.  We are glad to witness the success in College teaching of the alumni of our M.A program, both in Louisiana and nationwide. 

The Students 

In excess of 1,700 students (Spring) and 1,900 students (Fall) enrolled in our Foreign Languages courses, all languages combined, in 2006.  The administration of the Exit Test resumed regularly with the Spring 2006 semester in all languages.  Our goals of satisfactory performance were by and large achieved in Chinese, French, German, Italian (1001/1002) and Spanish, with some adjustments to be made for Japanese.  Data are not yet available for Italian 2001 and Latin 1011 and 1012, courses reoffered with a regular format only this fall. The change of textbook and approaches with respect to Spanish implemented since 8/05 proved to be a resounding success. The written Exit Exams for Majors (French 3500 and Spanish 3500) adopted since 1/04 continued to be administered in the appropriate cases, with great success. The revised “Graduate Student Handbook” and the new “Reading Lists for the Comprehensive Exams” were tools for success for all our M.A. candidates who approached the end of their studies at UNO (see below). 

The Foreign Languages Awards 

The department renamed our traditional “Outstanding Achievement” awards in 2006, to acknowledge the donations made by, or in the memory of, individuals whose contribution to UNO and Foreign Languages deserved special recognition.  Thus, our undergraduate and graduate awards in French were named for James Whitlow , a former faculty member who had passed away in early 2005, and whose friends and colleagues honored his memory with donations made to Foreign Languages.  The awards now carry a monetary component that was lacking before.  Our undergraduate and graduate awards in Spanish were named for our long-time benefactor Dr. Robert Cartmill, a some-time visiting faculty member in Geography and perennial friend of Foreign Languages and the College of Liberal Arts.  The awards now carry a monetary component that was lacking before. 
 

The Undergraduate Majors 

The following Foreign Languages majors won the newly renamed Outstanding Achievements Awards in 2006: Forouzan Tassouji (French) and Katherine Marie Johnson (Spanish).  The tradionnal “ William Y. Lobdell, Jr. Foreign Languages Faculty Scholarship” went to Natasha Rebecca Overell (French) in 2006. The prize acknowledges the best major in the department of that year. 
 
 

The Graduate Students 

Award Winners 

The following candidate for our M.A. in Romance Languages won the Whitlow Award in 2006: Stacy Demoran Allbritton.  Mrs. Allbritton was a “Katrina” graduate who completed her MA- French option in 12/05, under unprecedented conditions.  She had evacuated to Monroe, LA and enrolled in courses at the local university there while also taking our graduate courses offered on-line at UNO.  The equivalent award in the Spanish option was not granted in 2006. 

The “George Wolf Prize for Excellence in Linguistics” was not awarded in 2006.  In 4/2005, it had been won by Mrs. Beatriz Saigal (Spanish Option). 

Graduate Assistants 

The following graduate assistants were with us in 2006: 

French: Elsie Bouchette, Gisèle Schexnider, Jacinta Asale (Spring 2006 only); and Daniel de Leon (Fall 2006 only). 

Spanish: Elizabeth Pasquier 

M.A degrees granted since 5/05 

French option: 

May 2005: Whitney Lakin, Gregory Hamilton, Celeste Spencer. 

August 2005: Ghazi Assali. 

December 2005: Stacy D. Allbritton, Valérie Steinmetz-Weeks 

August 2006: Jacinta Asale 

Spanish option: 

May 2005: Beatriz Saigal, Bredio Gonzalez. 

August 2005: Celia Josefina Nougués. 

December 2005: Marta Gastanaduy. 

May 2006: Julio Bernal. 

December 2006: Sheridan Tanner, Alfonso del Valle. 
 
 

SPECIAL FEATURE 

A salute to the Foreign Languages Faculty 

The reader of this “Newsletter” would have gleaned from its previous pages many details about our faculty’s extraordinary performance during the unprecedented events that unfolded in Louisiana, New Orleans and UNO since 8/29/05.  While those details will not be repeated here, let us highlight, in conclusion, some of the collective attitudes and endeavors that made the last 16 months a historic time for the Department of Foreign Languages. 

1. Overcoming Heartbreak and Carrying on

We salute the faculty members who, by sheer force of will, triumphed over the heartbreak caused by heavy losses of home and property, and carried on with courage and professionalism all their departmental duties: Dr. Denis Augier, Dr. Manuel García Castellón, and Ms. Dulce Menes. 
 

2. Undertaking New Teaching Duties

We salute the faculty members who readily agreed to the adoption of new teaching methods, e.g., those related to distance learning.  Those methods were adopted at first under duress in October-December 2005, but they were then refined and perfected, an endeavor that continues to the present day.  As a result, 25% of all our courses, all languages and levels combined, are now being offered on-line. The colleagues most active in that respect were: Ms. Valeria Hallett, Ms. Pia Köstner, Mrs. Noriko Lastrapes, Ms. Dulce Menes and Dr. Joke Mondada (undergraduate courses)- Ms. Hallett, and Drs. Brooks and Mondada were the first to earn the UCC Blackboard Certification Training Diploma of UNO in10/06; Drs. Elaine Brooks, Jean Cranmer, Eliza Ghil, Julie Jones and Mrs. Lisbeth Philip (undergraduate and graduate courses); and Dr. Maria del Carmen Artigas (graduate courses). 

We also salute the faculty members who most willingly switched partial allegiance to languages other than those of their main field of expertise, thus saving our department from the potential loss of instruction in languages important to us in general and to our graduate program in particular: Dr. Manuel García Castellón and Mr. Clifton Meynard, who now teach regularly Italian and Latin in addition to Spanish; and Dr. Eliza Ghil who teaches Italian, in addition to the regular French. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3. Carrying on in Research and Publications

We salute the faculty members who undauntingly continued to pursue their intellectual endeavors in which they had excelled and built a national and international reputation in pre-Katrina times: Dr. Maria del Carmen Artigas (Sephardic poetry and Spanish Golden Age); Dr. Denis Augier (Hermetic poetry and the Seventeenth Century French Literature); Dr. Elaine Brooks(Pedagogical research on language acquisition and Spanish Cancionero poetry); Dr. Jean Cranmer (“fin de siècle” French civilization and modern French poetry); Dr. Manuel García Castellón (Spanish colonial literature); Dr. Eliza Ghil (Courtly poetry in Romance Languages, especially the troubadours); Dr. Julie Jones( Spanish and Latin-American film); Dr. Joke Mondada (Sociolinguistics and Discourse analysis); and Dr. Juliana Starr (The Nineteenth-Century French Literature, especially Flaubert and Zola). 

We beg our readers to indulge us in this self-congratulatory note.  We hope that they will agree with us on the many reasons for pride in the Department of Foreign Languages in 2005-2006. 

Happy Holidays to all and a Wonderful New Year 2007! 
 

                                                     Dr. Eliza Ghil,

              Chair of Foreign Languages;

                         and the Public Relation Committee:

                             Dr. Maria del Carmen Artigas(Chair),                                                     

       Ms. Valeria Hallett & Mrs. Lisbeth Philip (members) 
 
 
 

December 2006

                                                          
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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               Attention: Valérie S. Weeks

               Department of Foreign Languages

               New Orleans, LA, 70148 
 
 
 
 

Phone: (504) 280-6658                         Fax: (504) 280-6965