The Next Leader of the American Association of Teachers of French

Catherine Danielou, associate professor of French, interim chair of the department of foreign languages and literatures, and senior associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama Birmingham, is the new president-elect of the American Association of Teachers of French. The association, founded in 1927, has nearly 10,000 members. Dr. Danielou will serve one-year as president-elect and than will have a two-year term as president of the association.

Dr. Danielou is a native of France. Her research is focused on seventeenth-century French literature. After graduating from the University of Paris, she came to the United States and earned a Ph.D. at Michigan State University.