An accomplished educator, Colette H. Stelly has served on the faculty of numerous institutions during her career. As the foreign language department head of the Isidore Newman School, she initiated the Advanced Placement French
program. She later served as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee for Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. While there, she was appointed reader of AP French Language exams and, subsequently, the teacher training consultant for the College Board in Advanced Placement French Language
and Literature. After joining the staff of Dillard University, she was named
tenured associate professor of French before her retirement in 2004.
Stelly is a past president of the Louisiana chapter of the American
Association of Teachers of French and a former member of the board of directors of the Catholic Book Store. She is a former member of the Louisiana Foreign Language Teachers Association and the Southern Conference on Language Teaching
and a member of the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators. In addition to her involvement with the Friends of New Orleans Museum of Art, she is a member of Friends of Musica da Camera, Friends of the New Orleans Public Library, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and the Women's Spirituality Group.
As a writer who has been published internationally, Stelly has contributed to
numerous French educational texts. She has also served as director of the
CODOFIL (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana) scholarship program in Belgium. After earning her BA in French and music and her MA in French literature from Tulane University, she accepted the prestigious Lajealle Scholarship for a year of study in Paris. She went on to earn a PhD in foreign language education from Louisiana State University. Stelly lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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