Faculty
E. Nicole Meyer. 
Professor of French, Humanistic Studies and Women's Studies.
Coordinator of French Program
French program adviser.
Office: SA 265.
Phone: (920) 465-2098.
E-mail: meyern@uwgb.edu.
Professor Meyer earned her B. A. in French from University of Wisconsin--Madison, an M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and her M. A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of numerous publications on Flaubert, French and Francophone women’s autobiography, twentieth-century French literature, Descartes and Business French. Her book, The Questioning of Origins and Authority in Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet (Editions Rodopi B. V.), will appear in 2007. Her reviews appear in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, World Literature Today, Contemporary French Civilization and the French Review. She has earned over 40 Scholarly and other grants and has presented over 70 scholarly and pedagogical presentations at national and international conferences. She is the 1999 recipient of the University of Wisconsin--Green Bay Founder's Association Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship.
Professor Meyer was a 2004-2005 University of Wisconsin system Wisconsin Teaching Scholar as well as a member of a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee funded Scholarship on Teaching and Learning Women’s Studies Research Group. She was a University of Wisconsin--Green Bay Wisconsin Teaching Scholar II, 2005-2006.
Professor Meyer teaches all levels of French language, literature and culture (especially Business French) as well as literature in translation and other interdisciplinary literature courses for the Humanistic Studies Unit. She regularly teaches a January in Paris course. Professor Meyer recently received a “Teaching at Its Best” Award as well as the “Creative Approaches to Teaching” award, both at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay.
She serves on a variety of Board of Directors in the Green Bay and wider area. In addition, she is a member of the University of Wisconsin System French Placement Test Committee and of the American Association of Teachers of French FLES* Commission, she has enjoyed arranging a variety of conferences and conference panels here, in the Midwest and a national conference in New Hampshire. She has very much enjoyed volunteer teaching in the Green Bay Public School District. Most recently she has taught critical thinking (through the reading of short stories) as well as French language and culture in a local elementary school.
In Summer 2007, Professor Meyer is teaching Introduction to Humanities II. In the Fall of 2007, Professor Meyer will teach Intermediate French I, French Conversation and Composition, Advanced French Grammar and Translation and Literary Themes: L'Autobiographie feminine. In Spring 2008, she will teach Intermediate French II, Representative French Authors, Le Monde Francophone and January in Paris. She also directs a teaching internship in the local schools and leads a zen-reading seminar.
For the Cercle Français she has helped coordinate three upcoming French concerts as well as other events. This year's concerts will be Kevin Soucie (October 26), Victoria Vox (November 16). Claudia Hommel will perform this Spring.
The UWGB French program was delighted to host the American Association of Teachers of French Concours oral in Spring 2007
Mary Elizabeth VonDras
Instructor of French
Office: SA 261
Phone: 465-2458
E-mail: vondrasm@uwgb.edu
Mrs. VonDras received a M.A. in French literature from Washington University as well as a M.A. in French Civilization / Culture from Syracuse University. Her previous studies include degrees and work at the Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France, Middlebury College and Wellesley College. Mrs. VonDras brings experience as a publisher and editor of a foreign language magazine series as well as a high school debate guide series in addition to free lance writing and editing experience to the French program. Her French teaching experience is extensive (in Wisconsin, Missouri and New York).
Mrs. VonDras VonDras very much looks forward to teaching French 101 and HUS 202 this Fall. In Spring 2008, she will teach French 102 and French 325.
Professor Emeriti of French and Humanistic Studies (former faculty)
Ken Fleurant
Professor Emeritus of French and Humanistic Studies
E-mail fleurank@uwgb.edu
Ken taught at UWGB from 1970-2006. He has a B.A. (French) from Holy Cross College in Massachusetts and M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in New Jersey. Among his areas of academic interest are French and Francophone cultural studies, the cultural and political history of Québec, European Renaissance and Enlightenment Studies, and all aspects of French language and literature. At the moment, his principal areas or research are in francophone studies, especially the work of Moroccan-born poet and novelist, Tahar Ben Jelloun, who lives in Paris and writes in French; contemporary Quebec socio-political history; and applications of technology to teaching and learning. His reviews of contemporary literature appear regularly in The French Review, the publication of the American Association of Teachers of French. He has taught on television and has been a radio commentator. In addition to teaching all levels of French language, literature and civilization, he also taught interdisciplinary Humanities courses for the Humanistic 
Studies Program, and has frequently taken students to France. He has received the University of Wisconsin--Green Bay Founders' Award for Excellence in Teaching and a "Teaching at its best award."
Ken lives in Green Bay with his wife, Paula. His two children, Christine and Paul, studied languages in Milwaukee and Paris, and now live and work in Colorado and Wisconsin Ken enjoys listening to music, thinking, reading, cooking, playing with computers, fishing, photography, golfing and, especially, playing with his five grandchildren.
In the past few years he has spent a good deal of time constructing a Web site to commemorate the presence of French and Francophone people in Wisconsin. It has won a couple of awards, and has been discussed at national meetings in Dallas, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. Take a look at Wisconsin's French Connections.
Dr. Louise Witherell
Professor Emeritus of French and Humanistic Studies
Dr. Witherell now resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and continues her research.