Ms. Jennifer Lefevre

Jennifer Lefevre Jennifer Lefevre earned a Diplôme Supérieur in French Civilization from the University of Paris (Sorbonne), a B.A. in English and French with secondary teaching certification from Central College in Pella, Iowa, an M.A. in French (with honors) from Arizona State University, and a Licence spéciale Certificate in International Business from the University of Mons-Hainaut in Belgium. She also attended Bryn Mawr College's Institut des Études françaises in Avignon, France, where she played the lead female role in the student production of Jean Tardieu's Les amants du métro. Before coming to ASMSA in 2005, she taught English and foreign languages in Iowa, Arizona, France, Belgium and England, as well as working in journalism and corporate communications. She attended an intensive, residential program in Holocaust Studies at Royal Holloway University of London in 2005, and is currently finalizing her doctoral dissertation on The ersatz Comœdia 1941-1944: Writing between the Lines in Occupied Paris. Her creative writing was published in undergraduate and postgraduate literary magazines, and her book review "Men of Ideas, Men of Action: French Intellectuals' Impact on Post-War Politics" was published in 2003 in the Journal of European Studies.
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published in the Fall 2006 Bulletin of the Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association, Ms. Lefevre called for the use of real American Sign Language to replace made-up Total Physical Response (TPR) Storytelling gestures. She teaches French, German, and Genocide & Human Rights Studies at ASMSA, and served on the Arkansas Department of Education's Foreign Language Framework Revision Committee in 2007. Thanks to a nomination by ASMSA alumnus Marquez Staples, who is currently attending Yale University, Ms. Lefevre received the Yale Teaching Award in 2007 from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions of Yale University.

- Jennifer Lefevre, Humanities Representative