Congratulations to Professor Aurore Mroz who has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian with indefinite tenure, beginning August 16, 2025. Professor Mroz joined our French program as Assistant Professor in 2015, following a similar position at Colby College (2012-2015) and the defense of her doctoral dissertation (2012) at the University of Iowa. She has been the French SLATE graduate advisor since her arrival, advising students in multiple areas of specialization, such as 21st-century curriculum for the world-language classroom, teaching and learning L2 culture, integration of pronunciation and proficiency in the L2 classroom, acquisition of L2 critical thinking and negotiation of meaning, computer-assisted and -mediated language teaching and learning, virtual language learning environments, critical digital L2 literacy, and mixed-methods and process-oriented research in SLATE. We are grateful that her outstanding scholarship has been duly recognized and are looking forward to many more creative initiatives and fruitful collaborations with her in the coming years.
Félicitations, Professeure Mroz!