ARENBERG, NANCY
(B.A., Grinnell College, 1982; M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1989; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1996) came to the Department of Foreign Languages in 1996 as an Assistant Professor of French. She has published various articles of seventeeth- and eighteenth-century French literature. Her area of specialization focuses on epistolary fiction, feminist theory, and Francophone literature.
CHRISTIANSEN, HOPE
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(B.A., Kansas State University, 1979; M.A., Kansas State University, 1981; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1990) Hope joined the faculty in 1990 and is currently an Associate Professor of French. Her research areas are nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction. She contributed to the Romantic Movement Bibliography for several years. Since 2002, she has served as book review editor of the Literary Criticism & History rubric for the premier journal for French studies, French Review, editing 120 reviews per year and performing myriad related tasks. She has recently had three reviews on books treating nineteenth-century literature accepted for publication. In 1994 she received a Fulbright College Master Teacher award, and in 2006 was awarded the College’s outstanding undergraduate advisor award.
COMFORT, KATHY
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(B.A., Illinois State University, 1982; M.A., Illinois State University, 1983; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1997) joined the faculty in 2001. Her research focuses on French Naturalism and the French novel of the 19th- and 20th-centuries. She has given papers at national and international conferences and published articles on the representation of illness in Balzac, Zola, Gide, and Labro. In the past, she was a contributor to the "Romantic Movement Bibliography". Her current interests include the French regional novel, the roman noir, and the 19th century short story.
DAVIS, JAMES
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(B.A., Ouachita University; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., School for International Training; Ph.D., University of Minnesota) joined the University of Arkansas in 1993 and is currently an Associate Professor of French and coordinator/supervisor of lower-level French instruction. his area of research specialization is reading in a foreign langauge. He has authored two textbooks and a computer program for foreign language readers of French as well as numerous articles on the topic. Davis has lectured on foreign language acquisition in France, the former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and Niger. He is review editor for "Language Learning", a Field Service representative for the National Reading Conference and a member of the Standards and Culture Commissions of the American Association of Teachers of French.
EICHMANN, RAYMOND
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(B.A., Univeristy of Arkansas, 1965; M.A., University of Arkansas, 1967; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1973) joined the University of Arkansas in 1969. He is currently a Professor of French as has served as Department Chair (1988-2003). He is the co-author of four books on medieval French fabliaux and one on Old French drama. He has written over fifteen articles in national and international journals and has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences. He has served on several editorial boards and also served on the executive board of the South Central Modern Language Association. His research interests are medieval French fabliaux and drama, 20th-century French drama, and French culture.
JONES, LINDA
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(B.A., Northeast Louisiana University, 1983; M.A., University of Arizona, 1988; M.A., University of Arkansas, 1997; Ph.D. in Instructional Technology, University of New Mexico, 2001) joined the University of Arkansas in 1988 and is currently Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Language Learning Center. She has developed numerous multimedia applications in French and has assisted colleagues in French, German, and Spanish to develop their own applications. She has presented several workshops on languages and technology to colleagues in Arkansas and across the nation. She has written and received funding for numerous grants on language learning and technology. Her research and teaching interests are interactive multimedia design theories, spatial and verbal abilities and invested mental effort in computer-assisted language learning, video design and development, and translation and ethnohistoric analysis of colonial Arkansas French documents.
