Spencer
cited as outstanding language teacher
 Samia
Spencer, the Castanoli Professor of French at Auburn University,
has won the 2004 Outstanding Language Teacher Award- Post-Secondary
presented by the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers.
The
award was presented at the Southern
Conference on Language Teaching and AAFLT Conference.
Spencer
is also executive director of the Women's Leadership Institute
at AU.
In
1991, she was knighted as a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes
Académiques by the Government of France, and has since
been promoted to the rank of Officier.
Spencer
holds a bachelor's degree in French from Alexandria University
and a master's and a doctorate in French from the University
of Illinois.
As
a scholar, Spencer has published widely on 18th-century French
literature and culture, women and politics and contemporary
French and Francophone cultures and institutions. One of her
books, French Women and the Age of Enlightenment, continues
to be widely used and quoted.
She
was the 18th-century editor for The Feminist Encyclopedia
of French Literature and is completing work on an edited
encyclopedia on The French Enlightenment.
Spencer
is editor of XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century,
a new journal sponsored by the Southeastern American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and is a member of the editorial
boards of The National Bulletin of the American Association
of Teachers of French and Women in French Studies.
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