DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Dominique Licops, Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies and French (Northwestern University), is Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University. She earned her Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies from Northwestern University, her M.A. in Literatures from Commonwealth Countries from Leeds University, UK and her B.A. in Germanic Philology and Teaching Certificate from Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Her teaching and research interests include French language and French-speaking cultures at all levels, Francophone literatures, and the pedagogy of French language literatures. Her publications include articles on French Caribbean writers Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé and Gisèle Pineau, as well as Algerian novelist Assia Djebar. Recently, she has published “An Integrated Pedagogy for Teaching Diversity and Inclusion in Introductory Literature Courses,” Teaching Diversity and Inclusion: Examples from a French-Speaking Classroom (Routledge, 2021) and “Tempests that Wreak Havoc? Teaching Césaire and Shakespeare in the 21^st Century” co-authored with Paul Breslin, Reading Communities: A Dialogic Approach to Classical and Contemporary. (CambridgeScholars Publishing, 2016).

She has served in several administrative and advising positions, among others, as Director of Undergraduate Studies for French (2009-2012), Director of the French Language Program (2012-2021), Administrator of the Paris Program in Critical Theory (2009-2025), French Placement Adviser and First-year Adviser. A long-term member of the Council on Language Instruction (NU) and various departmental, College and National committees, she regularly participates in professional development, such as the BELC Institute Les métiers du français dans le monde (2016), the Digital Humanities Summer Instituted at the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities (2018), several programs on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and new technologies in teaching. In partnership with the French Consulate, she led a series of workshops on ‘Developing Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom’ across the Midwest for Highschool teachers of French. She was awarded the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2019 and the Council on Language Instruction Excellence in Foreign Language Teaching Award in 2021.