About Connexions francophones

Patricia J Kyle, Phd

LAITS University of Texas at Austin

Director of Online Language Learning in the Department of French and Italian, Senior Coordinator for Languages Online for the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services, and Affiliated Faculty for the Center for European Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, leads a highly-skilled team of language professionals in the development of innovative language curricula designed for use in online, hybrid, blended, and traditional environments.

She holds the PhD in French Linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington where she specialized in second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy, as well as the Master of Business Administration and the Master of Arts in Information and Learning Technologies from the University of Colorado.

Yazz Fawaz, Phd

LAITS University of Texas at Austin

Research Associate for the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services and Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin.

She holds a PhD in French Studies from the University of Texas at Austin where she specialized in Postcolonial Ecocriticism and African literature, as well as an MA in French literature from the University of Georgia. Yasmina has taught French language and culture at the undergraduate level. She specializes in media coordination and management of graphic design, video and audio production, and development of online language courses.

Fanny Macé, Phd

LAITS University of Texas at Austin

Research Associate for the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin.

She holds a PhD in French Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in computer-mediated discourse and critical discourse analysis, as well as a Master of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Tours in France. Fanny is native French speaker with over a decade of experience teaching French at the college level, including a one-year lectureship at Harvard University.

Laurie A. Ramsey, PhD

Contributing Author

Associate Professor Emerita, Department of French and French Studies, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN.

Professor Ramsey holds the PhD in French Linguistics from Indiana University, Bloomington, with specializations in second language acquisition, French phonetics, and language pedagogy. After teaching for two years as Visiting Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at IU, she served on the faculty at Sewanee for 28 years, offering undergraduate courses in French language, conversation and composition, linguistics, and culture, including “Discovering Paris.” She also created and taught a variety of interdisciplinary topics courses – “The Sounds of World French,” “The Art of French-English Translation,” and “Crossroads of Europe: Strasbourg and its Region.”