Lecturer and Coordinator of the First-Year French Language Program
Teaching
I teach a range of language and literature courses here in the Department of French, where I also coordinate the first-year language program. In that role, I work closely with graduate student instructors in their first years of teaching. Since 2017, I've been the Program Director of our annual summer study abroad program in Paris. Come see me if you're interested in joining us!
In 2018 and 2024, I was a Teaching Fellow at the UC Center for Teaching and Learning. In 2021...
Director of The Lower Division. Coordinator of the Second-Year French Language Program
Vesna Rodic (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008) is the Director of The Lower Division as well as the coordinator of the second-year French language program. She serves as a Faculty Advisor at UC Berkeley's Center for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Rodic is the Faculty recipient of the Chancellor's Sustainability Award (2023) for her work in curricular innovation, teaching, and instructor training. In 2024, she has been awarded the campus Faculty Fellows Award.
Dr. Rodic's research and teaching interests include: language pedagogy; second language acquisition theory;...
Maya has been teaching as a lecturer in the department since the fall of 2016. She completed her PhD in French/Francophone Studies at Northwestern University.
Office Hours:Tu/Th 12pm- 1pm
Selected Publications
« Le regard actif de Faustine ». Nina Companeez : petit écran et grande histoire, édité par Aurore Renaut et Myriam Tsikounas, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2024, https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/132783
Since completing her Ph.D. in 2016, Margot has been a lecturer in the French department at UC Berkeley where she teaches a wide range of courses and materials. As a Berkeley Language Center fellow, Margot has developed curricula for lower division French language courses. She is a recipient of the campus-wide Teaching Effectiveness Award.
Office Hours: Mondays 12-1pm; and Thursdays 12-1pm in person (4216 Dwinelle Hall). Please note: additional office hours on zoom or in person are available upon request
Claire Tourmen is a French researcher in adult learning and she has been teaching French language and culture (1rst and 2nd years + French For Politics and Translation) at UC Berkeley for almost 5 years now. She is from Angers (Vallée de la Loire), and has been living in California since 2013 with her husband and their little girl. She has a passion for film photography (with her old Rolleiflex), cooking - especially pâtisserie -, reading, writing fiction and hiking.
