Katharine Harrington
Assistant Professor of French
katharine.harrington@maine.edu
ext. 7629

B.A., St. Lawrence University, 1993
M.A., Texas Tech University, 1998
M.A., Brown University, 2000
Ph.D., Brown University, 2005

Professor Katharine Harrington teaches courses in French language, literature, cinema and culture, as well as French teaching methods. Her research interests include 20^th and 21^st century French writers, Québécois literature and immigrant writers of Québec, film, and the teaching of French to heritage speakers.

Originally from Beverly, Massachusetts, she has always been passionate about foreign languages. She received her B.A. from St. Lawrence University in 1993 with a double major in French and Government. Upon graduating from college she traveled to Ecuador for a year where she learned Spanish and taught English to middle school students.

After working in Boston for two years as a bilingual paralegal, she decided to pursue a graduate degree in French. She spent two years at Texas Tech University as a graduate teaching assistant and received her Master?s degree from TTU in 1998.

She then went on to pursue her doctorate degree in French Studies at Brown University. While a doctoral candidate at Brown she spent two years as a Lecturer in English at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France. There she met her husband Pierre-Yves.

Her doctoral dissertation entitled "Writing Outside the Box: Exploring a Nomadic Alternative in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature" explores the writing of authors who are shared between several languages and cultures. She has published articles in the journals Romance Review and Sites: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, and has a forthcoming article in Québec Studies.

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Gilbert J. Albert
Assistant Professor of Education
galbert@maine.edu
ext. 7583

Education
B.S., University of Maine at Fort Kent, 1967
M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1972
Certificate of Advanced Studies in Teaching, University of Maine at Orono, 1980
Certificate of Advanced Studies in Language Arts, University of Maine at Orono, 1986