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Haggstrom, Margaret Austin (1944- )

Associate Professor of French language and literature, Loyola University Maryland retired in 2015. She began at what was then Loyola College in Maryland as Assistant Professor in 1989. She taught before in adjunct positions at the US Military Academy at West Point, at Vassar College, at Pace University, at the University of Florida and at the University of South Carolina.

Her major publication, Portes ouvertes: an interactive Multimedia Approach to First-Year French, with Judith Frommer, Christopher Jones, Marie-France Bunting and Laurent Patenotte (Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston/Harcourt Brace) in 1998 demonstrated her pedagogical approach. She has co-edited several other volumes: Changing Language Education Through CALL, with Randall Donaldson (U. K.: Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Leaming, 2006); and The Foreign Language Classroom: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, with L.Z. Morgan and Joseph Wieczorek (New York: Garland Press Educational Series, 1995).

Her major contribution has been in the field of Universal Design, assisting students of all abilities to succeed in language study; from working with students with Learning Disabilities she expanded the language teaching repertoire to reach all students in her volume and in her teaching practice.

Dr. Haggstrom's contributions locally and nationally to the study of French and the support of its students led to her receiving the Dorothy S. Ludwig award for Excellence in Teaching (post-secondary) from the American Association of Teachers of French in 2011, and the award of Chevalier dans Ordre des Palmes académiques in 2015.