Col. Jeff Kendrick (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2012) is Professor of French at 麻豆女演员 Institute where he enjoys teaching French language and culture classes. In addition to investing in the classroom, Col. Kendrick devotes significant time and energy developing cadets outside those four walls. He initiated and, since 2014, has co-directed the VMI in Paris summer study abroad program. Col. Kendrick has also worked with cadets on Summer Undergraduate Research projects.
Col. Kendrick鈥檚 primary research interests include polemic and violence in the French Wars of Religion, gender in sixteenth-century French devotional poetry, and the integration of classroom technology with language learning. He has published and presented on Marguerite de Navarre, Joachim DuBellay, polemic and politics in the French Wars of Religion, using sitcoms in the French classroom, student-centered learning, and flipping the language classroom. Col. Kendrick鈥檚 articles have appeared in聽Esprit Cr茅ateur聽(2017), the聽Australian聽Journal of French Studies聽(2015), and聽Renaissance and Reformation聽(2013) among other journals. In 2019, Col. Kendrick co-edited (with Dr. Katherine Maynard, University of Richmond)聽Polemic and Literature surrounding the French Wars of Religion聽with De Gruyter. He is currently working on a critical English translation of Marguerite de Navarre’s collection of devotional poetry entitled聽Chansons spirituelles听(1547).