Dr. Waite received her Doctor of Philosophy in French from The Graduate Center, CUNY, her master’s degree in French Literature from New York University, and her Bachelor of Arts in French (Cum Laude) from Bates College.
From 2005-2009, she lived, studied, and worked abroad in France. From 2018-2022, she worked as an Assistant Teaching Professor of French and Coordinator of the French Language Program at Syracuse University, where she received an Instructional Innovation Award and a Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Fellowship. She is the author of Pas à pas : méthode d’anglais (2009), Ma Méthode d’anglais (2016), and various peer-reviewed articles.
Since 2012, Dr. Waite has been teaching all levels of the French language as well as courses in Business French, French phonetics, French translation, and French and Francophone literature and culture.
As a native New Yorker and lifelong Francophile, she is happy to be teaching French at BASIS Independent Manhattan. Her goal as an educator is to show students the enduring, transferable value of learning a new language and developing critical reading and writing skills. During her spare time, Dr. Waite enjoys reading, writing, researching, and traveling.
