Personnages - Softcover

Michael Oates was a professor of French at the University of Northern Iowa from 1967 to 2003. He received his Ph.D. in French from Georgetown University and was certified as an ACTFL Oral Proficiency Tester in French. In 1989, he won the ACTFL Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture. He is a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Jacques Dubois, a native of France, has been an assistant professor of French at University of Northern Iowa since 1966. With a B.S. from Kearney State University and an M.A. from the University of Nebraska, he is ABD from the University of Iowa. Currently he is director of the UNI Summer Institute for Teachers of French in Angers, France.