Dr. Lucia DiBenedetto

Lucia A. DiBenedetto is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Southern Maine. She received her B.A. from Emmanuel College. She attended the New England Conservatory of Music and the Institut de Professorat à l'Etranger at the University of Paris. Professor Di Benedetto holds an M.A. degree in French from Middlebury College and a Doctorate from New York University. She is the recipient of a French government scholarship, a Quebec government grant, and four National Endowment for the Humanities grants. Her areas of academic interest are eighteenth-century French studies and the twentieth-century French novel. She is a regular contributor to the French Review.