Col. Jeff Kendrick (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2012) is Professor of French at Virginia Military Institute where he enjoys teaching French language and culture classes. In addition to investing in the classroom, Col. Kendrick devotes significant time and energy developing cadets outside those four walls. He initiated and, since 2014, has co-directed the VMI in Paris summer study abroad program. Col. Kendrick has also worked with cadets on Summer Undergraduate Research projects.

Col. Kendrick’s primary research interests include polemic and violence in the French Wars of Religion, gender in sixteenth-century French devotional poetry, and the integration of classroom technology with language learning. He has published and presented on Marguerite de Navarre, Joachim DuBellay, polemic and politics in the French Wars of Religion, using sitcoms in the French classroom, student-centered learning, and flipping the language classroom. Col. Kendrick’s articles have appeared in Esprit Créateur (2017), the Australian Journal of French Studies (2015), and Renaissance and Reformation (2013) among other journals. In 2019, Col. Kendrick co-edited (with Dr. Katherine Maynard, University of Richmond) Polemic and Literature surrounding the French Wars of Religion with De Gruyter. He is currently working on a critical English translation of Marguerite de Navarre's collection of devotional poetry entitled Chansons spirituelles (1547).