Alumni News

Julia Osman ('04) returns to campus... to teach!
Julia Osman ('04) will be returning to campus in November to meet with the students currently enrolled in Prof.Pacini's senior seminar.

French student
Cybelle McFadden Wilkens '97 has just defended her PhD in Romance Studies at Duke University. While at William & Mary, Cybelle wrote an honors thesis in French entitled “Imagining the Impossible: Alternative Visions and Representations of Women and Their Desire in Films By Kurys, Varda, and Akerman." For next year, Cybelle has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professorship of French at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

French and History Student
In a letter from Niger, Katie Leach-Kemon '04 reflects upon the ongoing relevance of her senior thesis research on women in the French eighteenth-century public sphere.

French student
Clara Odell '04 has spent the past year working as a teaching assistant in Albi, France. She is now about to start a Masters program in Francophone literature at the Université de Paris IV.

French student writes from La Réunion
Drew Johnston ('05) is spending seven months in 2005 and 2006 as an "Assistant de Langue Vivante" in the French overseas department of Réunion, a tropical island located 500 miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

French student teaches in Guyane
Monica Loveley ('05) sends news from Guyane, where she is currently teaching English to students ages 10-21.

French student, class of 1981
Joe Zaccaria ('81) shares his thoughts about where French studies at W&M ultimately took him:

Five French students receive teaching assistantships from the French government
Our warmest congratulations to our graduating French majors who have been awarded teaching assistantship by the French Ministry of Education and the office of Cultural Services at the French Embassy.

French Alumni Information Center
Looking for that email address that you somehow lost over the summer? Read on for contact information for friends who majored in French.