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: DEPARTMENT FACULTY Prof. Debra Ames Prof. Karen Berrier Prof. Jennifer Bjornstad Prof. Sarah DeMaris Prof. Randa Duvick Prof. Mark Farmer Prof. Hoult-Saros Prof. Frederick Kavanagh Prof. Michael Kumpf Prof. Timothy Malchow Prof. Jianyun Meng Prof. Carlos Miguel-Pueyo Prof. Sally Ochoa Prof. Benjamin Ridgway Prof. Rachel Rivers Parroquin Prof. Angela Taraskiewicz Prof. Timothy Tomasik Prof. Nelly Zamora-Breckenridge

FACULTY PROFILE

Prof. Randa Duvick, Ph.D.

Department Chair & Professor of French

Meier 113
219.464.5169
Randa.Duvick@valpo.edu

Biography

EDUCATION
Ph.D. - University of Chicago

RESEARCH INTERESTS: JOSEPH BAILLY DE MESSEIN
Professor Duvick's most recent research project involves transcribing and translating from French the business journal of Joseph Bailly de Messein, the first non-native American to settle in Porter County, Indiana. The journal dates from 1799 to 1807 and paints an interesting picture of the upper Midwest during the time of fur trappers and voyageurs.

PROFESSION ACTIVITIES, PRESENTATIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS
• Professor Duvick serves on the national Executive Council of the American Association of Teachers of French as Regional Representative. She represents chapters from Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. She serves as Chair of the AATF Strategic Planning Committee.

• Professor Duvick spoke on Indiana's French heritage at the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers' Conference in November, 2006. Her talk was named "Best of Indiana" and she will present a revised version at the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Dearborn, Michigan, in March 2008.

• Professor Duvick gave a presentation on French-US Cultural Relations at the AATF National Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July 2006. She gave a talk on voyageur history at the 2005 AATF conference in Québec City.

• In December 2004, Professor Duvick presented a paper on Maupassant's fiction at the Modern Language Association meetings in Washington, D.C.

• In 2003, Professor Duvick was named Indiana State French Teacher of the Year--Post-Secondary Level by the Indiana AATF Chapter and the Indiana State Foreign Language Teachers Association.

• Professor Duvick has spoken at a variety of community events on the topic of French-Canadian fur trader Joseph Bailly and his connections with Indiana and Porter County. She has presented at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as well as various area historical societies.

• Professor Duvick's article "Sustaining Foreign Language Enrollments through Collaboration: An Interdisciplinary Major" was published in the Winter 2002 Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages.

• In May 2002, Professor Duvick delivered a paper entitled "Language and Social Climbing at the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Linguistics.