Program Staff

Dr. Jacqueline Letzter
Resident Director
Academic Year 2008-2009

Jacqueline Letzter is a Associate Professor of French at the University of Maryland. She received Ph.D. in French from Harvard University in 1995. She specializes in the literature and culture of the Old Regime and the French Revolution, and is particularly interested in the literature of women; including novels, memoirs, essays, political tracts, theatre, and opera. In her book, Intellectual Tacking: Questions of Education in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998). Letzter examines Isabelle de Charrière's contribution to the debate over education. With musicologist Robert Adelson, Letzter has written Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), a book which examines the unprecedented success of women opera composers and librettists during the French revolutionary period. She has published articles in numerous journals, including Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge Opera Journal, Feminist Studies, Revue d'Histoire du Théâtre, Lettre de Zuylen, Nineteenth-Century French Studies , and Eighteenth-Century Women. She is currently working on a project about women and early modern cultural identity in Belgium. Professor Letzter served as Resident Director for the Maryland-in-Nice program in 2003-04 and 2005-7.

In addition to teaching the Resident Director course, Dr. Letzter serves as the in-country contact for students on the program. She organizes program activities and excursions, assists with housing and registration, and is available to advise students on academic and personal matters during their time in France.

Françoise Rosso
Instructor

During the spring semester, Françoise teaches one section of the Resident Director course. Françoise was a Teaching Assistant at the University of Maryland for ten years. She now lives permanently in Nice and has worked for the Maryland-in-Nice program since 1996.

Catherine Donohoe
Program Coordinator

Catherine coordinates all logistical aspects of the Maryland-in-Nice program and is responsible for program admissions. She works closely with accepted Nice students and is available to discuss the program with any interested applicants.

Shoshana Griffith
Program Assistant

Shoshana is a Program Assistant and Advisor in the Study Abroad Office. She assists in the administration of all aspects of the Maryland-in-Nice program. Shoshana works closely with accepted Nice students and is available to discuss the program with any interested applicants.