Oxbridge Academic Programs - L’Académie de Paris

 

Dr Marie-Hélène Carpentier. BA Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, MA, DEA Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, MPhil New York University, PhD Université de Paris VII. An experienced teacher of French language and an accomplished academic, Marie-Hélène has taught at l’Académie de Paris for several years, as well as for programs operated by NYU, the American University of Paris, and Vassar-Wesleyan. During the academic year, she teaches for programs offered by Hamilton College, Sweet Briar College, Boston College, and the Emory-Duke-Cornell consortium in Paris.

Elizabeth Weinfield. BA (Hons) Rutgers University, MSt Oxford. Elizabeth teaches in the Faculty of Music at the City College of New York and Yeshiva University, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the content editor of the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, an encyclopedic publication to which she contributes as a writer on music.  Elizabeth has also worked as a researcher on French nineteenth-century art at the Met, and on period musical instruments at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, where she recently designed an exhibition of baroque plucked strings.  A trained violist, she has performed throughout the States and in Europe.

Baptiste Brun. BA, MA Ecole du Louvre. Baptiste started his studies in mathematics and then entered l’Ecole du Louvre where he teaches 20th-century Art History with a special focus on the period of the Avant-Garde. He is currently writing a dissertation that focuses on issues relative to Art Brut and Outsider Art. Baptiste is also working on multiple artistic and musical projects and exhibitions.

Laura Calder. BA, University of Montreal, BA University of Toronto, MA London School of Economics. After preparing for a career in diplomacy, Laura reverted to her first love – food. She trained first in Vancouver, then in California, and finally in Burgundy at the celebrated Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne. Since then she has written for numerous publications, including Vogue Entertaining and Travel and Gourmet Magazine, compiled a number of cookbooks, most recently French Taste: Elegant Everyday Eating, and starred in three seasons of the Food Network Canada series, “French Food at Home.”

Soizic Donin. BA (Hons) Sorbonne, DESS Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Soizic is an alum of the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure and teaches History and Geography at the Institute of European Studies as well as in a Parisian high school. She has lived in Tokyo where she studied at Sophia University and did research on French artists based in Japan. She is particularly interested in intercultural dialogue and has been involved in various educational projects with young people from different cultural backgrounds.

Mehdi Clément. BA, MA (Hons) Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Mehdi is currently a doctoral candidate in French Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. A specialist in literature of the late 20th century, Mehdi writes a regular column for the important literary review l’Atelier du Roman. He also writes articles about his experience living in London, where he has been for the past two years. His passion is the study of radical and innovative intellectual ways of thinking about modern and post-modern life.

Dr Brady Wagoner. BA (Hons) Clark University, MPhil (Hons), PhD Cambridge. A former Gates Scholar and winner of the prestigious Sigmund Koch Prize, Brady completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and teaches at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has created the Sir Frederic Bartlett Archive and has recently published the book Symbolic Transformation: The Mind in Movement through Culture and Society. He is also co-founding editor of the journal Psychology & Society and on the editorial boards of several other journals.

Camille Labro. BA Université de Nice, DEA, MA Université de Paris X. Camille was born in Berkeley, California, raised in Provence, and then spent ten years in New York working as a correspondent for French Vogue before returning to Paris. She’s the author of the guidebook New York Confidential and has contributed to various culinary guidebooks and food shows. Camille is currently a freelance food editor, a gastronomical tour guide in Paris, and is working on a culinary documentary for TV as well as a cookbook about her mother’s cuisine provençale.

Perrine Chambon. BA (Hons), DEA (Hons) Université de Rennes, MA (Hons) Université de Paris VII. Since graduating with a Master’s in English and another in French Literary Translation, Perrine has been working in Paris as a translator with major publishing houses such as Flammarion and Les Presses de la Cité. Previously, she has lived and studied in Dijon, Rennes, Cork, and Dublin, where she taught French at University College Dublin and translated works by contemporary Irish writers.

Heather Hartley. BA West Virginia University, MA Middlebury College. Heather is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Knock Knock. She has lived and worked in Paris for eight years, and is the Paris Editor for Tin House magazine. Her poems, essays and other work have appeared in Tin House, Mississippi Review, Post Road and other magazines, and in the anthologies The World Within: Writers Talk Ambition, Angst, . . ., Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House, and elsewhere.

Luc Martrenchar. BS, MS Université de Paris V. Luc is a qualified clinical psychologist, researcher, and teacher of psychology living in Paris. He conducts research on personality and environmental factors that determine intelligence. He is also a practicing psychotherapist.

Laetitia Mariotti. BA, MA Sorbonne. An experienced French teacher, Laetitia has taught in Italy as well as her native France where she was a curriculum counselor and A-level examinations supervisor. She is an experienced actress and director, having studied for two years at the Florent acting school in Paris. Laetitia has been living in Berlin for the past two years, working as a journalist and culture editor for a French newspaper.

Paul Laufer. Diplôme de Recherche Plastique Université de Genève, Diplôme d’Art Visuel Université de Lausanne. Educated in Switzerland, Paul has lived and worked in Paris since 1998. A professional artist and art teacher, his studio is in an old cookie factory that our students visit. He has taught at colleges of art in Geneva, Amsterdam, and Lausanne, and he has held exhibitions of his work in Lausanne, Amsterdam, and Paris.

Mathilde Fonvillars. BA Sorbonne, MA Université de Paris I. Mathilde, a teacher of both French and Philosophy, is currently researching the relationship between phenomenology and psychoanalysis. After living in Sydney, Australia for a year, she worked as a journalist specializing in culture, and has now returned her attention to philosophy.

Jennifer Huxta. BA (Hons) University of Pittsburgh. Jennifer has lived in Paris for over seven years, where she has taught photography and worked as a translator for journalists. She is currently working as a field volunteer, photographing, and teaching photo workshops at A River Blue, an arts empowerment project for youth in Northern Uganda, and is also working on projects in Nairobi, Kenya.

Joanna Fiduccia. BA (Hons) Stanford University. An art critic, editor and independent curator, Joanna’s criticism and writing regularly appear in Artforum, artonpaper and MAP Magazine. She is currently the assistant editor of Kaleidoscope, and has organized exhibitions of contemporary art in Paris, Milan and London.

Patricia Maillet. BA, MA Université de Paris VIII. A teacher for over 20 years, Patricia specializes in teaching cultural issues and professional writing skills for the biggest commercial companies in France, and giving literature courses to all levels of secondary school and university students. She is also the author of a grammar textbook used extensively in the French national curriculum, and recently published a new work, Structure and Strategy in Professional Writing.