The Innocent Victim: A Franco-American Civil War Novel
Primary Translator, Dr. Margaret S. Langford is a professor of French at Keene State College. She is co-founder and present co-chair of the Pizza and Pedagogy Collaborative for language teachers in Southwestern New Hampshire. Her sabbatical leave projects in 1984 and 1992 focused on oral interviews and research on Franco-Americans. In 1999 her leave was devoted to Un Revenant/One Came Back. In 1992 the American Association of Academic Alliances honored her for outstanding contributions to the teaching and promotion of French as a second language. In 1994, the New Hampshire Association for the Teaching of Foreign Languages selected her as teacher of the year. In 1998, she received the New Hampshire Excellence in Education Award. In 2007 she devoted her sabbatical leave to L Innocente Victime. Dr. Langford is presently incorporator of the Franco-American Centre in Manchester, New Hampshire, a member of the Historical Society of Cheshire County and of the French Institute at Assumption College.Collaborating Translator, Dr. Claire Quintal, is professor emerita of French and Francophone Culture and Civilization as well as the the founding director emerita of the Institut français of Assumption College. Founded in 1979, the institute, which has published theproceedings of its colloquia, launched in 1980, is considered to be the foremostresearch center on Franco-American history and culture.