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From the Editors

ADFL Updates

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE?
PAPERS IN HONOR OF HEIDI BYRNES

Rediscovering the Text: Multiple Stories for Language Departments
Sally Seiloff Magnan

Foreign Languages, Literatures, Cultures: Moving toward Unity
June K. Phillips

Foreign Languages: A Discipline in Crisis
Janet Swaffar

REPORTS FROM THE PROJECT “MODELS OF GOOD PRACTICE:
A STUDY OF INNOVATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
IN UNITED STATES COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, 1995–99,” PART 1

Cabrillo College • Italian in the World Languages Department

California State University, Long Beach • Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures

Hunter College, City University of New York • Department of German

Juniata College • French and Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures

Middlebury College • Department of Spanish

Ohio Northern University • Department of Modern Languages

University of Oregon • Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

University of Pittsburgh • Department of German

Reedley College • Spanish and American Sign Language

Smith College • Department of French Studies

Southeast Missouri State University • Department of Foreign Languages and Anthropology

Wesleyan University • Department of Russian Language and Literature and Russian and East European Studies Program