Marie-Simone Pavlovich

Marie-Simone Pavlovich (M.A.Education, Geneva, Switzerland; Ph.D.French literature, Northwestern University). As coordinator of the 300-level language classes, she teaches advanced grammar, phonetics, business French; as Freshman Advisor for the past 3 years, she has taught a Freshman Seminar on the topic of the psychology of the meal in French literature and film. She is a Faculty Fellow at Willard Residential College. Being very interested in language pedagogy, she produced, with the help of a Hewlett Grant, a web interface entitled Français à Dire et à Chanter used in the phonetics class. However, her primary interests lie in "gastro-literature" (food in literature from a psycho-sociological point of view), and literature of Switzerland, particularly by women. As a member of the Executive Committee of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), she is involved in the coordination of programs such as the Enrichment Day for High School Teachers of French, and is also the Director of the Grande Dictée de la Francophonie, a spelling competition open to all Francophiles and Francophones in Illinois that takes place at Northwestern the last Saturday in February. She lectures on that topic at various meetings and conventions.

She is the recipient of the AATF Dorothy B.Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award -post secondary (AATF/National)- and of the Prix du Chapitre for Excellence in Teaching (niveau universitaire); she was named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Education in 1998.

Her current projects include the publication of an interview with Henriette Walter, a well-known professor of linguistics, and the study on an aspect of gastro-literature.

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