University of Southern Maine

Lucia A. DiBenedetto is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Southern Maine.  She received her B.A. from Emmanuel College.  She attended the New England Conservatory of Music and the Institut de Professorat à l'Etranger at the University of Paris.  Professor Di Benedetto holds an M.A. degree in French from Middlebury College and a Doctorate from New York University.  She is the recipient of a French government scholarship, a Quebec government grant, and four National Endowment for the Humanities grants.  Her areas of academic interest are eighteenth-century French studies and the twentieth-century French novel.  She is a regular contributor to the French Review.
E-mail:  lucia@usm.maine.edu

Nancy Erickson is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Southern Maine.  She received her M.A. from the University of Minnesota and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.  The recipient of a French Government Scholarship, four National Endowment for the Humanities Grants, and a Fulbright Exchange Teacher Grant, Professor Erickson's main areas of interest are Renaissance Literature, French civilization, the relationship between literature and maps of the Renaissance, and foreign language pedagogy, and most recently the use of the internet as a teaching tool.  Her most recent publications include 8 plays of Marguerite de Navarre which she co-edited with Catherine Masson (Wellesley College) for the book Théâtres de femmes de l'ancien régime.  XVIe (Dir. Aurore Evain, Perry Gethner & Henriette Goldwyn, Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Université, collection ALa cité des dames@ n. 5, 2006, 568 p).
E-mail:  nerickson@usm.maine.edu

Jean Fouchereaux is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Southern Maine.  He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.  His field of expertise is Francophone studies in North America and implementation of new teaching strategies through technology.  He is the author of numerous articles and book reviews.  Professor Fouchereaux is a recipient of grants from the Quebec Government, the Lilly Grant and the French Cultural Services.  He is a former vice-president of the Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (C.I.E.F.).  In 1991, Professor Fouchereaux was awarded the Chevalier des Palmes Academiques (a prestigious French government award given for the promotion of French/Francophones cultures in the United States).
E-mail: jeanf@usm.maine.edu