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Prof. Karen Berrier, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Arts and Sciences, ASB 252
219.464.6847
Karen.Berrier@valpo.eduBiography
EDUCATION
M.A. and Ph.D. Indiana University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Intercultural Communication, French Business, French Art History, Translating and Interpreting, Language Teaching in the Elementary Schools.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS
• Member and Past President, American Association of Teachers of French, Northwest Indiana Chapter.
• Member and Scholarship Chair, Zeta Mu Tri Kappa (Indiana Women’s Sorority)
• Former President and Director of JumpStart Languages (teaching French K-8 in parochial schools)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
• Jerome Coignard, Dream Palaces: The Last Royal Courts of Europe, Paris: Vendome, 2004.
• Jean-Marie Perouse de Montclos, Paris, City of Art, Paris: Vendome, 2003. (Chapters 8 and 9)
TEACHING
Professor Berrier has had experience French teaching at all levels, including Introductory and Advanced courses in literature, conversational French, professional French and the French media. She has also taught the Global Perspectives course and in the Core program at Valparaiso University.
AWARDS
2009 State of Indiana Teacher of the Year, presented by Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association