French and Francophone literature, the public humanities, and immigration in the Americas, taught and shared in more than one language.
Including writers from Francophone Africa and the Global South.
From Camus and Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Memmi, Miguel de Unamuno, and James Baldwin.
How migration and displacement shape communities, languages, and stories. She has worked on book projects with colleagues in the United States and Mexico.
History, literature, art, and language shared with the public, built with the communities they serve.
Selected published work. Article titles link to the publisher, DOI, or university record.
She teaches French and Spanish language, literature, and culture at USC Upstate, where she coordinates the French program. Her courses range from “French Cuisine and the Francophone World,” where students blog, cook, and explore food from France, North Africa, and Quebec, to global existentialist writers.
She builds service learning into her teaching, so students put what they learn to work in the community. She has also guided many student capstone projects, at USC Upstate and with students from other colleges.
Presbyterian College, September 29, 2026
At Presbyterian College's Hispanic Heritage Month convocation, she greeted the audience in French, Spanish, and English and invited students into the discussion. The conversation connected language and belonging with mentorship, volunteering, and leadership in everyday life.
She speaks about the public humanities, Latino communities in South Carolina, language and culture, and leadership, in English, Spanish, and French.