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Cynthia T. Hahn > Biographical Sketch

Dr. Cynthia T. Hahn, native of Chicago, received her PhD in French Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana, her MA in French Literature from Purdue University, and her BA in French with a minor in Business from Dominican University. She has also studied at L'Université de Besançøn, France, and L'Université Laval, Québec and holds a Certificat de français économique et commercial from the Paris Chamber of Commerce. Cynthia has taught full-time at Lake Forest College since 1990, serving as Associate Dean of Faculty for 3 years and becoming Full Professor of French in 2003. She currently chairs the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. She has published widely in the fields of French-Canadian literature, literary translation and North African women's studies. Major literary translations include 3 novels: "Poppy From the Massacre" (on the Lebanese civil war, 2006), "Lost Song From a Rediscovered Country" (on Algerian identity, 1999) and "Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia" (on the Tunisian women's movement, 1996). She published a critical overview of French-Canadian literature in "Profiles of Canada"(1998) and has authored many critical articles on French-Canadian author Gabrielle Roy as well as Lebanese author Evelyne Accad.