French Faculty

Eddy Cuisinier, FT Instructor
(MA University of Illinois at Chicago)
ML Media Center Coordinator
Office: 241 FAC
Phone: (270) 745-5076
E-mail: eddy.cuisinier@wku.edu

Bonjour! I am a full-time instructor here at WKU where I am teaching French. I was born in France and lived in Paris ' the most beautiful city in the world, if you ask me ' until I moved to the United States in 2001 with my B.A in English from l'Universit de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. I went on the West coast first, where I taught French at Spokane Falls Community College in Washington State. In 2003, I moved to Chicago to teach and get my Masters of Arts in French at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

My objective as an instructor at WKU is to help my students reach their full potential by engaging them in diverse activities that will help understand the global community we are living in.

Karin Egloff
Full Professor
(Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, French Literature)
Office: 274 FAC
Phone: (270) 745-5905
e-mail: Karin.Egloff@wku.edu

Dr. Egloff's area of specialization is contemporary French/French-Canadian Studies. She is currently completing a book length manuscript about female body image in recent Francophone literature and film. Dr. Egloff has published articles on French or French-Canadian literature, contemporary poetry, cinema and Women's Studies. She teaches courses on French language, literature, culture, film, translation, phonetics and conversation.

 

Dr. Nathan Love
Associate Professor
(PH.D. Indiana University, Bloomington)
Office: 282 FAC
Phone: (270) 745-5909
e-mail: nathan.love@wku.edu
http://edtech.tph.wku.edu/~nlove/

My trajectory through life included the following parentheses. The I.U. French & Italian Dept. sent me in 1973-74 as an assistant d'anglais in a high school/cole normale in Cachan, a suburb of Paris, and the home turf of Georges Marchais, the leader at the time of the French Communist Party. This was an exchange arrangement. I learned only upon my return to I.U. that my French counterpart was a fellow named Bernard Lamour, an obvious witticism on the part of some French Ministry of Education bureaucrat. The cole normale -- a sort of elite graduate school -- put me on the basketball team. On the team I learned French that wasn't in my dictionary, and traveled to London for the penultimate game of the season against a British school's team whose hospitality did not extend to losing the game to their guests.

I tore myself away from Bloomington, that fair, if not ideal, university town when I.U. saw fit to grant me a Ph.D. in French. I first taught at I.U. Northwest, in Gary, Indiana. After my family choked on smog for three years, I applied for an opening at WKU in Bowling Green, Kentucky in the early summer of 1985.  I had driven through on my way to Florida a year earlier and had made a mental note that Bowling Green might not be a bad place to watch the children grow up.
I have been teaching French language and literature at WKU for nineteen years. One of my supreme professional satisfactions to date has been to follow from afar several WKU French graduates who have done well at I.U. themselves.

Part-Time Instructors

Benedicte Bossut, PT Instructor
Office FAC 240
Phone: (270) 745-2250
e-mail: Benedicte.Bossut@wku.edu

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