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Dr. Shelley Thomas received her B.A. from Clemson University
in French Literature in 1976 and attended the Sorbonne in
1977. She received her M.A. from the University of South
Carolina in French Literature in 1983 and taught at the
University of Grenoble in 1986. She received her PhD in
French Literature from Purdue University in 1991 when she
began teaching at MTSU.
Since joining MTSU she has served as chair of the SACS
committee, the National Women’s History Month and the Loan
and Scholarship Committee. She has coordinated study abroad
and summer exchange programs to France. She is a member of
the Graduate Faculty, the Honors Faculty, and currently
serves as a member of the Research Task Force for URSCP.
Her articles and book reviews on Nineteenth Century authors
appear in the Gale-Thomson Encyclopedia on Short Story
Criticism, Romanic Review, L’ Esprit Créateur,
and Philosophy and Literature. Her current research
on brain-based learning has been presented at both national
and regional conferences. She is the founder and director of
the Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition (CALA), a center for the
research and application of methods of accelerated language
acquisition. Partnerships for language classes and
teacher-training have been formed both locally and
internationally between CALA and the
Department of Social Services as well as with the Isha
Foundation, a non-profit organization in southern India.
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