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Shira Weidenbaum comes to Quest University Canada from Yale University, where she completed a Ph.D. in French literature. She received her B.A. in French, with a minor in German, from Carleton College in Minnesota and did additional graduate work at Middlebury College's Summer Language Institute. She spent two years in Paris while researching her dissertation, and she has also lived and studied in Avignon, Le Mans, Lindau, and Nuremberg. Shira's scholarship and pedagogy are unified by an overarching interest in dialogue and communication. She studies written dialogue as a form of persuasion in the context of the wars of religion in sixteenth-century France, combining literary, historical and religious perspectives. Her teaching is driven by the goal of helping students to communicate with each other and with other points of view. Her emphasis on active participation and total immersion within the classroom is influenced by her early experiences learning, and later teaching, French at Concordia Language Villages. Shira enjoys singing, playing oboe, piano, and classical guitar, and discovering new music of all sorts. Shira's future goals include learning to identify bird calls, to communicate in sign language, and to write an historical novel. |
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