Colleen Patton will go to Brittany, France under a Chateaubriand Fellowship for dissertation research

In Spring 2017, Colleen Patton will be a visiting researcher at Université Rennes 2 in France as one of 17 national recipients of the Chateaubriand Fellowship for Humanities and Social Sciences. The Fellowship funds 4 months of dissertation research for Colleen. Prof. Stefan Moal will be her dissertation co-advisor and her research supervisor while in France.

Beginning February 2017, Colleen will be based in Rennes to conduct focus group and individual interviews with a variety of parties involved in Breton language provision, including language organization administrators, language teachers, adult language learners, and citizens in Brittany who do not seek to learn Breton as adults....