Rebecca Reneau
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Teacher - High School Latinrreneaulumenchristischool.orgB.A. ’77 French, Latin, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
M.A. ’85 French, Latin
M.A. ’87 English, with TOEFL specialization
I’ve been teaching since elementary school when I would come home from school and line up all my dolls in my room and teach them what I had learned at school each day. I’ve always gravitated to showing others how to do the things I enjoy so they can enjoy them too.
I am currently employed as an adjunct professor of Latin in the Languages and Cultures Program at Marian University, and in the Classical Studies Program at IUPUI, having taught at those institutions since 2007 and 2017 respectively. I also teach a Latin course for Holy Rosary parishioners which includes home-schooled high school students and adults studying for personal enrichment, and I tutor a small number of private students.
Previous positions have been at Ball State University, teaching Latin, Vocabulary Development, Scientific Terminology, English Composition, Poetry, and Drama, as well as a year teaching English at the Université de Nancy, Nancy, France.
In addition to French and Latin, other languages studied have been classical Greek, German, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, and Anglo-Saxon.
Concomitant with my interest in languages has been an interest in ethnic dance. For thirty years I studied, taught, and performed locally and abroad the ethnic dances of various cultures of Europe, the Middle East, and North America, with special expertise in the dances of the Balkan countries and in Oriental dance.
When I’m not living, breathing, and teaching Latin, I make a little recreational time for gardening, embroidery, and reading.
Latin is a world heritage treasure that we must preserve and hand on, and I am very honored and grateful to have the opportunity to do so at Lumen Christi.
