Dr. Megan Conway received her B.A. with honors in French Studies and a minor in German from Centenary College of Louisiana. After a year as a Bush Foundation Fellow at the University of Minnesota, she once more headed South to finish her M.A. in French at Tulane University in New Orleans. She also holds a Ph.D. in French Literature from Tulane where her minors were Jacobean and Stuart drama and philosophy.
After teaching at Tulane and Loyola University, Dr. Conway joined the faculty of LSU-Shreveport as an Associate Professor in 1992 and was promoted to Professor in 1998. During the Spring of 1999, she served as Interim Director for the Master of Liberal Arts Program at LSUS. She has been a member of the Graduate Faculty since her arrival at LSUS and currently serves a three-year appointment as an adjunct member of the Graduate Faculty of Louisiana Tech University.
As the only full-time French professor currently on campus, Dr. Conway is busy teaching all levels of French from elementary to graduate courses. In addition to French, she also teaches the Introduction to International Studies course. Her involvement with the International Studies Program has grown steadily over the past several years. She chairs the International Studies Committee which oversees the International Studies minor, co-advises the International Club with Dr. Lynn Walford, and has organized an International Topics Discussion Group for faculty. Dr. Conway also teaches in the MLA program.
Women authors of the French Renaissance hold a special fascination for Dr. Conway and she is currently engaged in writing a book on four of them. She finds the events of the French Revolution equally enthralling and also works on an eccentric political and social activist of the eighteenth century, Olympe de Gouges, who is the subject of two of Dr. Conway’s most recent publications. She has presented papers on these and related topics at numerous regional, national and international conferences. She is also currently working on an advanced French grammar text with Catharine S. Brosman, professor emerita of Tulane University.
Dr. Conway’s love of travel and fashion often spill over into the classroom. Her lectures on culture (and her wardrobe) are doubtlessly influenced by the fact that she has traveled in over nineteen countries. It is equally likely that during the semester she might wear a kimono or a green wig to class.
