Associate Professor of French

PhD, University of Minnesota 1986
MA, Colorado State University
BA, Colorado State University

Email - kmurphy@mail1.vcu.edu
Phone - 804.827.3420
Fax - 804.828.0127

Office - Lafayette Hall, Rm 310
            312 N. Shafer St.
            Richmond, VA 23220

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Kathryn Murphy-Judy began her work in academe in French language and literature studies.  Her dissertation focused on the Roman de Flamenca, a Provençal romance of the XIII Century.  At the same time as she became more and more interested in how language and culture function to create meaning, she simultaneously discovered the intrigue of language learning and teaching: how people go from being ignorant of another language to being able to communicate effectively in new idioms. Upon completion of her dissertation, there were no jobs for medievalists. There were, however, increasing numbers of openings for PhD's with a background in second language acquisition, especially if it connected to new technologies. Since Dr. Murphy-Judy had been programming computers since high school, had created a concordance of the Roman de Flamenca...

 

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