Department of Foreign Languages
Department of Foreign Languages
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Molly Lynde-Recchia 
Professor of French
Ph.D, Indiana University, Bloomington
Office: 819 Sprau Tower
Email: molly.lynde-recchia@wmich.edu
Phone: (269) 387-6243
Education:
B.A., Highest Honors, French Literature, University of California at Davis, 1985
M.A., French Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1987
Maîtrise en Lettres modernes, mention très bien, Université Charles de Gaulle (Lille III, France), 1988
Ph.D., French Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1993
Background:
Dr. Lynde-Recchia’s first trip to France was in 1980, when she cycled from Nice to Calais via Bordeaux and Paris. She has lived for extended periods in Montpellier, Lille, and Brittany, and traveled throughout the country.
Teaching:
Dr. Lynde-Recchia has taught all levels of language and literature, including Old French, at Western Michigan University since 1993. She is the head of the French section.
Research:
As a scholar of medieval French language and literature, Dr. Lynde-Recchia analyzes the increasing use of old French prose in literary texts in Prose, Verse, and Truth-Telling in the Thirteenth Century (French Forum, 2000). Her second book, La vie seint Marcel de Lymoges (Droz, 2005), is a critical edition of a previously unpublished thirteenth-century text which relates the tale of the apocryphal Saint Martial of Limoges. She has also published several articles on these topics. Her current project involves the translation of Old French poetry into English.
