University of Southern Maine

Lucia A. DiBenedetto is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Southern Maine. She received her B.A. from Emmanuel College. She attended the New England Conservatory of Music and the Institut de Professorat à l'Etranger at the University of Paris. Professor Di Benedetto holds an M.A. degree in French from Middlebury College and a Doctorate from New York University. She is the recipient of a French government scholarship, a Quebec government grant, and four National Endowment for the Humanities grants. Her areas of academic interest are eighteenth-century French studies and the twentieth-century French novel. She is a regular contributor to the French Review.
E-mail:  lucia@usm.maine.edu, Telephone: (207) 780-4337

Nancy Erickson is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Southern Maine. She received her M.A. from the University of Minnesota and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. The recipient of a French Government Scholarship, four National Endowment for the Humanities Grants, and a Fulbright Exchange Teacher Grant, Professor Erickson's main areas of interest are Renaissance Literature, French civilization, the relationship between literature and maps of the Renaissance, and foreign language pedagogy. She co-edited 8 plays of Marguerite de Navarre with Catherine Masson (Wellesley College) for the book Théâtres de femmes de l'ancien régime. XVIe (Dir. Aurore Evain, Perry Gethner & Henriette Goldwyn, Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Université, collection “La Cité des dames” n. 5, 2006, 568 p). With Tom Conley (Harvard University), she wrote “Maps and Literature in the French Renaissance,” History of Cartography, Vol. 3 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Most recently, she presented a paper entitled “All Children Left Behind: Reading & Learning Online” at the Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education organized by the American Association of University Professors in Washington, D.C.
E-mail:  nerickson@usm.maine.edu, Telephone: (207) 780-4327