Ritt Deitz
Credentials: PhD, UW-Madison
Position title: Distinguished Teaching Faculty, French
Email: mdeitz@wisc.edu
Phone: 262-4090
Address:
746 Van Hise
- Fall 2025 Office Hours
- Wednesdays 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, and by appointment
Ritt Deitz CV
Primary Language
French
Specialties and Areas of Research Interest
Professional Communication; French for Professional Purposes; Contemporary Quebec novel and film. International development and humanitarian aid narratives.
Selected Publications
Novels
- Settle Down, Wauwatosa, WI: Ten16, 2025.
Edited Collections
- Francophonia: Stories from the Professional French Masters Program. Madison, WI: Incidence, 2014.
- Post-Francophone: Stories from the Professional French Masters Program. Madison, WI: Incidence, 2010.
Short Stories
- Rêver local. Madison, WI: Incidence, 2013.
Plays
- La Colonie, ou l’invasion québécoise. Madison, WI: Incidence, 2010.
Distinctions
- UW-Madison University Housing Honored Instructor, Spring 2024.
- Distinguished Teaching Faculty, 2023.
- Honorary Order of Kentucky Colonels, 2021.
- Distinguished Educator in French for 2019 (Wisconsin Chapter, American Association of Teachers of French).
- Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques, 2012.