• Ph.D., French Studies, Brown University 2005
• M.A., Romance Languages, Texas Tech University 1998
• B.A., Government and French, St. Lawrence University 1993

Contemporary French and Quebecois Literature, Teaching of French to Heritage Speakers, North American Francophone Communities, French Teaching Methods, Technology in Foreign Language Teaching.

• French Heritage Council – Chair, 2005-Present
• Student Success and Academic Advising Committee
• French club advisor
• Academic Computing Committee
• Council for Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment, 2005-2006
• Student Conduct Committee, 2005-2006
• Project Maine/France/Québec (University of Maine system-wide committee), 2005-Present
• Maine Franco-American Studies Alliance
• Joint Master’s of Art in Teaching French Advisory Council (Univ. of Maine System-wide committee)
• Chair, Search Committee, Director of Acadian Archives, Fall 2007
• Search Committee, Direction of University Relations, Springs 2006
• Search Committee, Art Faculty, Spring 2005

• Recipes for Success in Foreign Language Teaching: Ready-Made Activities for the L2 Classroom. Eds. Katharine Harrington and Tina Ware. Munich: Lincom Europa, 2007
• “Bienvenue à l’O.N.U.: Teaching Prepositions with place names” Recipes for Success in Foreign Language Teaching: Read-Made Activities for the L2 Classroom. Eds. Katharine Harrington and Tina Ware. Munich: Lincom Europa, 2007.
• “Writing Between Borders: Nomadism and its Implications for Contemporary French and Francophone Literature” Sites: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 10.2 (April 2006): 117-125.
• “Transcribing Nomadism:” The Use of Collage and the Internet in the Autofictional Writing of Régine Robin” Québec Studies 40 (Fall 2005/Winter 2006): 79-96.
• “Linguistic and Cultural Nomadism: Nancy Huston and the Case of the Bilingual Subject” Romance Review 8 (Fall 2003): 69-78.
• Gaz Bar Blues: A Changing Québec in a Changing World. Presented at Northeast Modern Language Association 39th Annual convention, Buffalo, NY. April 12, 2008
• Co-organizer of American Association of Teachers of French-Maine chapter’s 2007 Fall Conference: “Comment enseigner l’heritage franco-américain du Maine” Bates College, Lewistion, ME. October 2007
• “Piecing Together our Stories: Collage and the Internet in the Autofiction of Régine Robin” American Council for Québec Studies Biennial Conference, Cambridge, MA. October 2006.

Most recently, Dr. Harrington presented a paper on Québécois cinema and globalization at the American Council for Quebec Studies conference in Quebec City.

Dr. Katharine N. Harrington, Assistant Professor of French, has co-authored a foreign language reference book, Recipes for Success in Foreign Language Teaching: Ready-Made Activities for the L2 Classroom, which provides classroom teachers with successful teaching strategies for foreign language instruction.