I completed my Ph.D. in French at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL after studying at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, l'Université de Lyon, France, and Appalachian State University. I came to Boone, NC in 1978, first in the Interdisciplinary Studies residential college program (Watauga College) and then moved, in 1990, to the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures where I served as Chairperson from 1990 to 1996. I became Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University, July 1, 2003. My interests range from 19th-century French literature to the use of computers in second language acquisition and teaching. (See Publications above.) Please contact me by e-mail for additional information.