Leanne
B. Wierenga, Associate Professor of Languages, teaches courses in French
conversation, civilization and culture, phonetics, French literature, and
French literature in translation. She is the author of French Diction
for the Singer. She has been a Fellow in Residence at Indiana University
and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar participant
to study fiction and biography at the University of California, Berkeley,
and to study semiotics and medieval French literature at the University
of Illinois. Wierenga's professional articles and chapters in books have
examined models for listening comprehension and teaching foreign languages.
Her research and numerous professional papers have centered on such topics
as role-playing and creative story-telling in elementary French, vocal
diction in the foreign language curriculum, the Romantic hero and his heirs,
fictional heroes in French Romanticism and symbolism, socialism in France,
and the works of Stendhal. Wierenga's current research is on semiotics
and La Vie de Henry Brulard and French fairy tales. She earned her
B.A. at Calvin College and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University
of Illinois. She joined the Wittenberg faculty in 1980. Click
here to contact her via e-mail. Tel.: (937) 327-6337. Office: 220 Hollenbeck Hall.
Timothy
L. Wilkerson, Associate Professor of Languages, teaches French
language and literature, literary theory, and second language teaching
methodology. His scholarly interests include 19th-century French novel,
literary history, and most recently, the relationship between ideology,
cultural identity, and poetry in Quebec. His recent publications have appeared
in 19th-Century French Studies, George Sand Studies, George Sand et
l'écriture du roman, and
Le Siècle de George Sand.
Wilkerson earned his B.A. at Indiana
University, his M.A. at the University
of Iowa, and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. He joined the Wittenberg
faculty in 1992. Click
here to contact him via e-mail. Tel.: (937) 327-6357. Office: 228 Hollenbeck Hall.