About the Author

Edward Ousselin taught at the Institut de Touraine in France before moving to the United States and earning his Ph.D. at Ohio State University. He teaches French grammar review and composition courses at Western Washington University. He has written 30 articles on French culture, film, and literature, served as a contributing author for the textbook Liaisons: An Introduction to French, and translated and annotated a dual-language version of Marcel Proust's Les Plaisirs et les Jours. He is the author of La France: histoire, société, culture and the editor in chief of the French Review, a scholarly journal published by the American Association of Teachers of French.