Vis-a-vis: Beginning French

About the Author\nJudith A. Muyskens, Ph.D., Ohio State University, is Provost and Professor of French at Nebraska Wesleyan University. She was recently a Professor of Humanities at Colby-Sawyer College, New Hampshire, where she served as Vice President for Advancement. She continues to teach French language courses when time allows, especially first- and second-year language classes. For many years, she taught courses in methodology and French language and culture and supervised teaching assistants at the University of Cincinnati. She has contributed to various professional publications, including the Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, and the ACTFL Foreign Language Education Series. She is a coauthor of several other French textbooks, including Rendez-vous: An Invitation to French and À vous d’écrire.\nAlice C. Omaggio Hadley, Ph.D., Ohio State University, is a Professor Emerita of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a coauthor of the French text Rendez-vous: An Invitation to French and is the author of a language teaching methods text, Teaching Language in Context. Her publications have appeared in various professional journals, and she has given numerous workshops throughout the country.\nEvelyne Amon studied at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne. She holds a DEA in modern literature, a Diplôme de didactique des langues in French as a second language, and a CAPES in modern literature. She has taught French language and literature at the secondary and college levels, and for many years has led a training seminar in Switzerland for professors on advances in methodology and pedagogy. Lately, she has conducted several training sessions in teaching French as a second language for teachers at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in New York. As an author, she has written many reference volumes, textbooks, and academic studies for French publishers such as Larousse, Hatier, Magnard, and Bordas, and she is currently working on a project for Hachette. She is the author of the McGraw-Hill French reader C’est la vie! and has written for successive editions of Vis-à-vis. She lives in Paris and New York.\nScott Jamieson was born in St. John's, Newfoundlander and majored in French at Memorial University and went on to complete an M.A in études françaises at Université Laval. He studied translation and translation theory at the Sorbonne–Nouvelle where he received a Doctorat nouveau régime. He has co-authored the translation of a number of text-books currently used in French immersion classes. His current research interest is in French-Newfoundland studies and he has translated and edited A Voyage to Newfoundland by J. Thoulet (published by McGill-Queen’s, 2005) and is presently preparing a translation of Terre-Neuve : anthologie des voyageurs français 1814-1914. For over thirty years, he has been teaching introductory, intermediate and advanced French language and translation, first at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College and now at Memorial University of Newfoundland.\nBorn in Maniwaki (Québec) and raised in a bilingual family, Magessa O’Reilly studied French literature at the University of Ottawa where he specialised in stylistics and narratology. He has published numerous articles on the novels of Samuel Beckett, Anne Hébert, Marguerite Duras and others. In the field of genetic criticism and manuscript study, he has published an edition of Beckett's How it is (Faber & Faber, 2009) as well as a genetic edition of Beckett’s French- and English-language versions of the same novel, Comment c’est – How it is, (Routledge, 2001). He is currently involved in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (University of Reading), contributing work on the manuscripts of Molloy (both French- and English-language versions) and Comment c’est – How it is. A member of Memorial University's faculty since 1991, he teaches French language, French and Québécois literatures and Québécois culture.