Bonjour! After living in Montpellier, France where I taught English for a year at the Université Paul Valéry, I am building a neighborhood language school in Chapel Hill, the Village du Sud School of French.
Concurrently, I am a doctoral candidate in French language and literature at UNC Chapel Hill, where I have taught elementary and intermediate French courses (French 101, 102, 105, and 203). My academic interests position my work at the intersection of sixteenth-century French religious and political thought, and postcolonial Francophone Caribbean literature, through the lens of anachronic intertextuality, focusing on the notions of dissent, mutability, literary cannibalism, utopianism, and supremacism.
I particularly enjoy creating semi-staged musical productions of French songs with my students.
As a former member of NY City Opera Associate Chorus, my previous professional work as a singer included many seasons with the New York Philharmonic, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the NY Choral Artists, the Mostly Mozart Festival, Bard Summerscape Opera, numerous NY choral ensembles, and a NY Philharmonic role debut as a Hen in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen in 2011. Roles included Venus in L'Amour et la Folie (Grant Herreid) (NY Continuo Collective); Agricola in Strauss's Eine Nacht in Venedig (Hellenic Music Foundation); Paride in Gluck's Paride ed Elena (One World Symphony); Nicklausse/The Muse with Regina Opera; and Wanda in Friml's operetta
Rose Marie (Light Opera NY).