Dr. Laura Dennis teaches French language, literature, and culture at all levels along with selected courses in Spanish at University of the Cumberlands. She began her career as an Associate Instructor at Indiana University, then was named Future Faculty Fellow at Indiana University East. Upon receiving her PhD, Dr. Dennis spent an additional year as Lecturer at Indiana University East before coming to what was then Cumberland College in 2001. Now Professor of French and Chair of the Department of World Languages, she currently moderates the Lambda Gamma chapter of the Pi Delta Phi National French Honor Society and serves on the International Studies and Promotion and Tenure committees. Dr. Dennis has presented her research on cinema, women and aging, feminist geography, and the depiction of international adoption at conferences in the United States and abroad. An avid reader and writer of creative nonfiction, she has published scholarly articles, book reviews, and personal essays in the Kentucky Philological Review, French Review, Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, and Mom Egg Review, to name a few. When not working, reading, or writing, Dr. Dennis plays piano, spends time with her three children and many rescue animals, and volunteers as blog manager and occasional blogger with the Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN), a non-profit agency that aids families and children affected by early childhood trauma.