Francophonia

When did you realize the French-speaking world was not what you expected? Ritt Deitz, who directs the University of Wisconsin-Madison Professional French Masters Program, has brought together writers who see the monde francophone a little differently now than when they were studying the language in classrooms. They saw French as a way to get into that world that spans the globe from Paris to Montreal to Brazzaville and beyond-learning, along the way, that working in French is not necessarily the same thing as being French.