We'd like to welcome Marie Rabecq as our French Fulbright Scholar. In an effort to get to know her better, we sent her several questions.
Can you please give us a brief biography of your life, both personally and academically?
"I was born in Rennes, in the West of France, but the city that actually feels like home to me is Nantes, an hour away, where we moved when I was a child. It is a vibrant city that hosts many cultural events, from music to art installations to cinema. At 18, I graduated from high school as a student in Sciences but I knew that this was not the path I was meant to follow. For a long time I had been interested in learning and teaching languages, so I moved to the East of France, to Lyon, and got a BA in English studies. After that, I got admitted into the ENS (a prestigious publicly funded school) where I studied to obtain my first year of master’s degree in English, with a specialty on American civilization.[My research focused on ecovillages and the American political field. If any of it is of interest to you, do not hesitate to reach out, either virtually or in person!] I took a gap year in 2021-22 to travel to the US and teach French at Davidson Davie Community College."
