Clare Tufts received her Ph.D. in French literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. She is professor of the practice emerita in the Departments of Romance Studies and Linguistics at Duke University, where she served as director of the French language program for thirty-one years. She has published articles and book chapters on language acquisition and pedagogy, the modern political theatre in France, Alfred Jarry and political propaganda in French cartoons. She authored one of the first computerized grammar tutorials (Micro-Review in French), which was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1990. Dr Tufts' current research interests include second-language acquisition and French comic art.


Hannelore Jarausch received her Ph.D. in eighteenth-century French literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is teaching professor emerita in French and was director of the French language program at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she taught courses in methodology, language and literature. Dr. Jarausch has been named Foreign Language Teacher of the Year (Higher Education) in 2009-2010 by the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina. Dr. Jarausch's research interests focus on language teaching and teaching assistant training. She has presented at ACTFL, Central States and the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina.