Expertise
Ashley Scheu received her Ph.D. in French from Duke University in 2011. Before coming to Eckerd, she taught French language and literature courses at both George Washington University and American University in Washington D.C. Her teaching and research interests are in French language, French literature, philosophy, French existentialism, feminism and women writers. From 2006 to 2010, Scheu spent nonconsecutive years studying in the Francophone countries of France, Switzerland and Cameroon, and she achieved a near-native fluency level in French. Scheu has published works in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Romance Quarterly, The French Review, Simone de Beauvoir Studies, and Women in French Studies. She has been a member of the Modern Language Association, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and the International Simone de Beauvoir Society, of which she is currently the treasurer.