Post-Francophile: Stories from the Professional French Masters Program

Deitz, Ritt; Bousquet, Gilles; Ganim, Russell; Durand, Alain-Philippe; Edwards, Erin; Kiel, Annique; Suilebhan, Maura; Koprowski, Christine; Thor, Khou Catherine; Beaver, Christopher

ISBN 10: 1453832548 / ISBN 13: 9781453832547

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Post-Francophile: Stories from the Professional French Masters Program
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1453832548
• ISBN 13: 9781453832547
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Americans have studied French for centuries. Some of them become teachers. Others become professors, teaching and writing about the language and its attendant literatures and cultures. Some become translators. Thousands of French majors graduate from¬ American colleges and universities each year, but most of them will not become teachers, translators or academics. How many will find fulfilling ways to use their fluency in French, as professionals? How many will find those hidden geographies where French is a daily feature of the landscape? How may will simply give up, letting their French rust away into their personal past? Ritt Deitz, who directs the University of Wisconsin-Madison Professional French Masters Program, has assembled writers who tackle these questions and others, Post-Francophiles who represent that large and diverse community of adult Americans committed to using French in ways that deepen both their careers and their lives as a whole. They are well past simply loving the language. Their stories suggest that, behind the shimmering pathway to sophistication that French long seemed to represent, there lies a set of useful professional tools.

About the Author

Ritt Deitz is Executive Director of the UW-Madison Professional French Masters Program, where he gives regular courses in professional communication, research methods, and Francophone culture and society. A graduate of the University of Virginia (B.A. 1988) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 1994), he has also taught French, francophone literature and cinema at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, and writing, professional communication and language at the Wisconsin English as a Second Language Institute. He is also the author of "La Colonie," a French-language musical comedy about a Québécois invasion of Wisconsin, and is a recording acoustic musician on the Uvulittle Records label.