Professor Nicolas André: BA (1992), State University of Haiti, Haiti; MA (2008) and post MA semesters (2009), Indiana University, USA; EdD (in progress) is currently the Haitian Creole program coordinator, Haitian Creole, French instructor, and Haitian Studies Certificate Director at FIU (Florida International University). He started teaching Haitian Creole at FIU in August 2010. He has served as a research assistant at Indiana University (2001, 2002, and 2005), and has taught Haitian Creole at Indiana University from 2006-2009. He has previously taught Haitian Creole for foreigners, Creole Linguistics, and French in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was head of the Service for Research on Haitian Creole at the State Secretariat of Literacy (1995-1997).
He also served as lexicographer for the Haitian Creole-French/French-Haitian Creole school bilingual dictionary by Editions Haïtiennes (Deschamps). He is assistant editor of the Haitian Creole-English Bilingual Dictionary (2007: Indiana University). Other publications in which André has collaborated include: Pen nan boutèy diven nan panyen banbou, liv I & II (2002: Fondasyon Konesans ak Libète), Dwa moun pou tout moun (1998: OAS/UN International Civilian Mission), and Bay mo yo lapawòl (1998: OAS/UN International Civilian Mission), and Demokrasi pou tout moun (2007: USAID, Haiti). He published his first French novel Qui trop embrase mal éteint in 2011. He has published several articles within a multidisciplinary collaboration setting at FIU.
He has been awarded a seed grant funding as co-principal investigator. He is a founding member of the Haitian Creole Academy, and member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, member of the Florida Education Association, the National Education Association, and the Haitian Studies Association.
