Catherine Danielou, Ph.D., has been named associate dean of the UAB School of Arts & Humanities. She will assume the position held by Ward Haarbauer, Ph.D., who will retire at the end of June.

Danielou is an associate professor of French in the UAB Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She specializes in 17th century French literature with an emphasis on moralist writers. Her other research interests include early modern French women writers, 18th and 20th century French literature and the history of Paris.

Danielou earned degrees in English and American history from the Universite de Paris III Nouvelle-Sorbonne in 1983 and 1984 respectively. She later earned her master's and doctorate degrees in French literature and American history at Michigan State University in 1987 and 1991 respectively.

A member of the UAB faculty since 1990, she has worked both as an associate and interim chairwoman of the UAB Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

In 2004, she won the UAB President's Excellence in Teaching Award for Arts and Humanities. That year Danielou also received the Prix de Excellence Award from the Alabama chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French.