Clare Tufts

Clare Tufts received her Ph.D. in French literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. She is professor of the practice emerita in the Departments of Romance Studies and Linguistics at Duke University, where she served as director of the French language program for thirty-one years. She has published articles and book chapters on language acquisition and pedagogy, the modern political theatre in France, Alfred Jarry and political propaganda in French cartoons. She...See more

Clare Tufts received her Ph.D. in French literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. She is professor of the practice emerita in the Departments of Romance Studies and Linguistics at Duke University, where she served as director of the French language program for thirty-one years. She has published articles and book chapters on language acquisition and pedagogy, the modern political theatre in France, Alfred Jarry and political propaganda in French cartoons. She authored one of the first computerized grammar tutorials (Micro-Review in French), which was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1990. Dr Tufts' current research interests include second-language acquisition and French comic art. See less