Margot M. Steinhart

Margot M. Steinhart (Ph.D., French Literature, Northwestern), Adjunct Lecturer in French, is a frequent conference presenter and has served the profession in various leadership roles. She is president of the American Society of the French Academic Palms, president of the Alliance Française du North Shore, and past president of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF).
She coordinates the French Language Advocacy Kit initiative, supported by the American Association of Teachers of French, the French Embassy, and the Quebec Ministry of International Relations.  Her article on “French in Fashion,” an article on the reasons French is a relevant language today, was published in Language Magazine in 2009. She has served as review editor for "Course Materials and Methodology" in The French Review and co-chair of the task force for the French national student standards in Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century (Rev. 2006). She has written book reviews, published in The French Review, and was invited in 2006 -2007 to submit an article on curriculum in the Modern Language Journal, essays in teacher and student textbook editions for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, a vignette in Breakthrough Essays and Vignettes in Honor of John A. Rassias, and a web article on using the archives to support national French student standards in Picpus, Walled Garden of Memory: A Digital Archive (Digital archives on Picpus Cemetery, Lafayette, and Rothschild Hospital during the Vichy Government, Northwestern University, NEH Project).
She is the recipient of the 2009 ACTFL Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education K-12, awarded by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.  She has received the AATF Dorothy S. Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award (2002) and from the Chicago/Northern Illinois AATF Chapter, the Prix du Chapitre for Excellence in Teaching (1998). She was promoted to Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Education (2007).

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