Lise Hoy

Lise Hoy received her B.A. in French from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and then her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of specialization and research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, food studies, art and modern French literature, content-based language teaching, and the practice of interdisciplinarity in the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum. She has published and presented research on the modern French novel, the correlation between French literature and painting, the topic of gastronomy in French literature and culture, art, culture and communicative activities in the language classroom, and on various related interests such as the city of Paris and French women writers. Lise combines communicative and content-based language instruction in her French courses as an effective method of teaching the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in French as well as guiding students to a critical understanding of the reciprocal semantic relationship between language and culture. Lise has led several J-Term study abroad courses to Paris and to Martinique. She has taught French at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum at a number of other institutions including St. Olaf College and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and also in the first- and second-year French language program at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.