French Language and Culture /
Business French
Faculty
Nicole Dufresne, program director, received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California in 1977, and has been a member of the French Department at UCLA since 1983. A French native, who has spent half her life in California, she has an insider's familiarity with both the French and American cultures. Her special interests focus on written and visual forms of communication, including the French and American cultures of business, the art and techniques of translation, and theatre and film.
Jean-Claude Carron. Professor of French, UCLA. Doctorat es Lettres (PhD), University of Geneva, Switzerland. Previously taught French at the Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne in Milan (Italy) and at St-John's and Queen's Colleges, Oxford University (UK). Specialist of Renaissance studies and poetry. Among his publications: Discours de l'errance amoureuse: Une lecture du 'canzoniere' de Pontus de Tyard (Paris: Vrin, 1986), (Editor) François Rabelais: Critical Assessments (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). Teaches French medieval and early modern studies at UCLA.
Kim Jansma received her MA (Teaching French as a Second Language) and Ph.D. (Applied Linguistics) at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a Lecturer in applied linguistics and phonetics in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA.