Laurie Anne RAMSEY
Associate Professor of French and French Studies, Chair
Gailor 215
French 419: Introduction to French Linguistics
Education:
Ph.D. French Linguistics, 1996, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Major: French Linguistics
Minor: General Linguistics
M.A. French Linguistics, 1988, Indiana University, Bloomington.
B.A. French, Minor in Music, 1984, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
Profile:
Laurie Ramsey attended the College of William and Mary, where she majored in French and minored in Music, participating in many musical events. She was Concertmaster of the College-Community Orchestra. She spent did her junior year abroad in Montpellier, France and lived in the French House at the College for two years. Professor Ramsey then went to Indiana University having been offered a position as Associate Instructor as she pursued her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Linguistics. Her dissertation, The Acquisition of French Intonation by American Learners, combined her interests in second language acquisition and prosody, the music of language. She was on the IU faculty for two years before moving to Sewanee in 1992. Apart from her teaching in the Department of French and French Studies, Professor Ramsey enjoys playing violin in the University Orchestra and the Trio ma non troppo, walking, traveling, and participating in interdisciplinary activities on campus. Her current research project is entitled A Teacher’s Guide to Alsace.
