Marianne Seidler Golding

Professor Emerita of French and International Studies

I was born in France in 1961. My father was French and my mother was American. At the age of 19, I moved to Los Angeles on my own to finish my university studies. There I met my future husband from England, with whom I started a family and raised three boys in California's San Fernando Valley. After I earned a PhD in French literature and culture from UCLA in 1997, we moved to Oregon, where I had accepted a position at Southern Oregon University.

I taught at Southern Oregon University for 25 years, where I received two awards for excellence in teaching. My research focuses on women's autobiographies, Francophone cinema and literature, and, more recently, the Holocaust. Retired since August 2022, I am currently writing a book about my father's escape to France and Switzerland as a seven-year-old Czech Jewish refugee. Since 2019, I have been conducting research on my family and the Holocaust both from my home in Ashland, and in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and France. I am also the author of The French Graded Reader, 6th edition (2007), and I translated Bernard S. Wilson's novel, Grandad's Journey: A Holocaust Story, into French under the title L'énigme de la photo jaunie.