Education
M.A., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
B.A., Louisiana College

Cécile Terrell Barnhart graduated from Louisiana College in 1992 with a degree in French Education and taught both French and English in private and public schools in Central Louisiana for over 12 years.  She completed the M.A. in Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2004 and fulfilled a longtime dream of working at her alma mater when she was hired at LC in the Fall of 2006.  She began doctoral studies in 2008.  Ms. Barnhart  is currently A.B.D. at ULL and is writing her dissertation on the novels of Louisiana francophone author, Dr. Alfred Mercier. She teaches Introductory and Intermediate French along with courses on advanced grammar and composition and French and Francophone literature and film.