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Department Chair (French & Italian), Professor of French
3134-A JFSB
801-422-6554
bob_hudson@byu.edu
About Me
A proud Kentuckian and humanistic bon vivant, aside from my academic pursuits (under Scholarship), I enjoy stand-up comedy, Americana/Country Music, French-inspired cooking, genealogy and various forms of football (American/NFL, rugby union, association), a sport I played collegiately for the Murray State Racers. I served a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the France Paris Mission (1998–2000: Paris 7e, Vannes, Le Vésinet, Argenteuil, Brest, Torcy), before completing my BA and MA in French Studies here at BYU, taking my PhD in French & Francophone Studies at UCLA and marrying Maria Cabrera (2006). We are the parents of three children, who are enrolled in French immersion (DLI) programs and whose youth sports teams I often coach. I have served on the 16th-century French forum executive committee for MLA, the program committee for SCSC and am a former director of MARS (BYU Medieval & Renaissance Studies) and am the current editor-in-chief of our in-house academic journal Lingua Romana.