Faith W. Beane
Assistant Professor of Russian & French
B.A. English, Stanford University, 1972
Diplôme unilingue (Bulgarian), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris, 1976
M.A. (Slavic Linguistics), Université de Paris, Sorbonne, l978
Graduate study-ABD (Slavic Linguistics), University of Chicago, l978-l979

Professor Beane’s special interests include Slavic sociolinguistics, the history of the Slavic languages, and Old Church Slavic. She has lived and studied for 16 years in Europe: seven in Bulgaria, five in Poland, one in Russia, and three in France. She has worked as an occasional contract interpreter of Bulgarian for the U.S. Department of State since 1986. At Truman she teaches French language classes, as well as Russian language and linguistics.

Sana Camara
Associate Professor of French
Graduate Study, Ohio State University
M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.A., University of Dakar, Senegal

Sana Camara began his teaching career as French Instructor at Truman State University in 1989. He received his Master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He's now Assistant Professor of French and has recently completed his Ph. D. degree at Ohio State University. Sana has taught almost all levels of French courses Truman offers, ranging from Elementary French to Topics in French and Francophone literature.

Andrea B. Davis
Instructor in French and German
B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (French, German)
M.A., University of Missouri, Columbia (French)
Teaching interests: French and German grammar, conversation, culture.

Andrea Davis is a native of Austria and has resided in Kirksville since l991 with her husband (also teaching at Truman) and her four children. She teaches both French and German. She has traveled in France, Switzerland, Germany, England and Italy. Frequent visits to Europe allow her to update the students’ perspective on the ever-changing, globalizing European community---reminding them of their duty, as educated citizens, to be aware of and open to these changes. She loves and enjoys her students and the classroom. Her greatest goal is to instill in them a love for foreign language---be it French or German---as well as developing in them a sense that above all, they are citizens of a global community. To obtain this goal she tries to create a lively and stimulating classroom atmosphere, using methods to support different learning styles.

Timothy Farley
Professor of French
Ph.D. in Language Education from Indiana University

Timothy Farley, Professor of French, holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University and has been at Truman since l990. He teaches courses in first and second year French, French Conversation and Composition, and Stylistics and Translation. He is on the faculty of the Division of Education for which he trains K-12 Spanish and French teachers for Truman’s Master of Arts in Education program. He is also director for Truman's French Immersion Weekend and Director of Le Coin Français, Truman's French language wing. His interests include cycling and kayaking. (tfarley@truman.edu)

Since 2003, he has served as Faculty Liaison for the Truman-China English Teaching Partnership, a program in Guangdong Province. Truman students teach listening and speaking in the Wu Hua County Public Schools and receive 12 hours of internship credit. For more information on this program, click here: China 2005 PowerPoint Presentation.

Patrick Lecaque
Professor of French
Ph.D., Paris-Sorbonne (1985)
M.A., Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales, Paris (France)
B.A, Orléans (France)

Dr. Patrick Lecaque, a native of France, earned his doctorate in art history at the Sorbonne in Paris; he also holds degrees in Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croatian) and Religious Studies from the Institute National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He lived in Russia, Poland and Bulgaria before coming to the U.S. in 1986. At Truman State University, he is a Professor of French, teaching French Civilization and the Director of the Center for International Education Abroad, developing and administering study abroad and exchange programs.

Patrick Lobert
Professor of French
Ph.D., The University of Michigan

Dr. Lobert holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has been at Truman since 1992. He currently teaches courses in Intermediate French Language, French Conversation and Composition, and French Phonology and Advanced Grammar. Over the last ten years, he has staged numerous French plays involving Truman students and faculty (see www2.truman.edu/~plobert”). His academic interests lie in the areas of History and Theory of French Literature and Theater, Textuality and Performance Theory, and French Language Studies. He has published articles and presented papers on theater and literature, specifically on Jarry, Claudel, Balzac, Beaumont and Tocqueville. He recently completed a study of Molière’s theater.

Ronald K. Manning
Assistant Professor of French
Graduate Study, Louisiana State University, University of Marseille
B.S., Idaho State University (French & Pol. Sci)

Professor Manning attended Idaho State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Political Science. During his Junior year he studied abroad in Strasbourg, France at the Université de Strasbourg. After graduation in December of 1983 he moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he worked as an Electrician for three years. In 1986 he enrolled at Louisiana State University in a Ph.D. program in Foreign Language Education. He taught French as a Teaching Assistant during his graduate studies and in 1987 he received a fellowship to study in Aix-en Provence, France.
In 1991 he moved to Kirksville, Missouri and started work as an Assistant Professor of French and Director of the Foreign Language Learning Center, the technology based lab at Truman State University. During the past 10 years he has lived here expanding the facilities, training faculty on the use of technology in foreign language learning and teaching French courses.
His interests outside of academia include playing the guitar and skydiving.

Betty L. McLane-Iles
Professor of French
B.A. and M.A. University of Arizona, Tucson
l’Université de Montréal (l972)
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (l982)
Princeton Fellow, (summer 1986)

On the undergraduate level, Dr. McLane-Iles teaches intermediate and advanced French language courses and French literature survey. In addition she also teaches undergraduate and graduate studies in French Existentialism, Québec and French-Canadian Literature, and, on occasion, Francophone Cinema. Playwright, author of fiction and published works on French-speaking women philosophers, historical leaders and writers, including Simone Weil, Gisèle Halimi, Anne of Brittany, Ying Chen, as well as papers presented on writers of Québec and film directors of France, Québec, Algeria and Africa. Hobbies are swimming, reading, traveling, and painting.

Gregg Siewert
Professor of French
M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa
B.A., Doane College

Dr. Siewert is a Midwesterner who has studied French since 1968. He did undergraduate training in French and education at Doane College in Nebraska, including a student teaching internship in a suburban Omaha high school. His M.A. and Ph. D. are from the University of Iowa, where he also studied Spanish, Italian, and film. His dissertation examined proverbs and epigrammatic language in Rabelais. He has held three AATF summer scholarships in France and two NEH summer study grants at the University of Iowa and at Harvard University. He has attended classes in France at universities in Nantes, Poitiers, Clermont-Ferrand, and Montpellier, and has traveled throughout France. At Truman since 1991, Dr. Siewert has taught all levels of language and specialized courses in film, contemporary civilization, translation, French business, and medieval and Renaissance literature. Several of his advisees have gone on to graduate studies in fields such as French, education, law, and art history. In 2000, his work on new cultural spaces in France was published by Summa, and he continues work on an edition of a 1564 dictionary of French proverbs.