Margaret Dempster

Lecturer in French, Ph.D. Indiana University. She earned her B.S. in French and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and her M.A. in French literature from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled: "Writing, Punishment, and the Self: A Study of Five Twentieth-century French Novels." She has studied with the Council in Educational Exchange Critical Studies Program as well as at the University of Paris VII-Jussieu in Paris. Margaret has also worked in France as an interpreter and culinary aide at the Ecole de Gastronomie Française in Paris and has taught English at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris and at the Université de Pau in Pau, France. She has taught French at the University of Illinois, Iowa State University and Indiana University as well as at a Montessori school in Indiana. Her interests are in eighteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, twentieth-century women writers and autobiography.

Margaret is currently responsible for the New Teaching Assistant orientation and training as well as the coordination of First-year French. She has taught one Freshman Seminar and served as a Freshman advisor. Margaret is also an International Studies Residence College (ISRC) fellow and along with her colleague, Aude Raymond, is the co-sponsor of the Table Française and the Cercle Francophone. For two years, Margaret served as the Advertising Manager for the French Review, the main publication of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF).

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