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France: Language, Community, and Social Change
Faculty and Staff
Isabelle Jaffé, Academic Director
Isabelle Jaffé, a resident of Toulouse with American and French citizenship, received her Licence (BA) in French and philosophy and her Master's degree in literature from the University of Paris - La Sorbonne. She has been on the teaching staff of Marymount College (New York) and at the Alliance Française in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Jaffé has taught French and English at several institutes and colleges in Toulouse and Avignon, including working as Supervisory Director for the Centre International d'Etudes et de Loisirs, overseeing the pedagogy of the French language programs, and later for language and culture programs at the Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques d'Avignon. In addition to her academic positions, Ms. Jaffé has worked as a cross-cultural consultant for several firms in the Toulouse area, including Aerospatiale. She has published short stories in literary journals in France and has written and produced plays in theaters in Toulouse. Ms. Jaffé was employed as a language instructor and as Assistant Academic Director for the SIT Toulouse Program in the 1997-1998 academic year. She has been working as Academic Director in Toulouse since 1998.
Julia Carnine, Program Coordinator
Julia Carnine earned a BA in French Studies with Honors at Lewis and Clark Collegeand an MA from Long Island University. She began her French experience as a 14-year-old student in a Parisian middle school when her mother, a French teacher, was awarded a Fulbright in 1984-85. Francophone studies, including a senior thesis involving independent field work in Martinique, the French West Indies, brought her to enroll in the Université Laval in Quebec City and to a four-year French advanced level teaching position at a college preparatory high school in the Bay Area, CA. Ms. Carnine has had extensive international trip-leading experiences including Canada's Arctic Circle, China, Tibet, India, Mexico and several language immersion trips to France. Her Masters work, completed at Long Island University in 2000, involved her growing interest in experiential, cross-cultural educational experiences facilitated by technology. From 1998 to 2001, Julia was the Director of Long Island University’s overseas study program in Hangzhou, China. There she facilitated intensive Mandarin Chinese immersion language courses as well as advising independent field based research by students. Julia took on the directorship in Toulouse in January 2002.