Dr. Rosanne Abdulla is an Assistant Professor joint in the Faculty of Education and the Department of French Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Within this joint appointment, she will be working to increase collaboration between French, Education, and the London community. She is an Ontario Certified Teacher with teachable subjects in Intermediate/Senior FSL and English, as well as a PhD in French Studies. Prior to joining Western University, Dr. Abdulla taught French language/culture courses at the University of Alabama, University of Waterloo, and Conestoga College. 

Her research interests include 21^st century French literature, the representation of mental health in literature, psychoanalytical criticism, psychology and literature, foreign language acquisition, FSL teaching and learning, online/blended learning, inclusive pedagogies, and diversity/decolonization in the classroom.

At Western, she teaches FSL pedagogy courses in our B.Ed program, and undergraduate French language/culture courses on main campus. She is the faculty liaison for the newly revamped Centre d’aide en français, and a member of the Administrative Council of the Conseil communautaire francophone de London. She will also be developing new pathways for non-French majors to acquire French proficiency in support of the important need for FSL teachers in Ontario.