Background
Frautschi, Richard Lane was born on November 14, 1926 in Rockford, Illinois, United States. Son of Irving F. and Gertrude Olive (Lane) Frautschi.
Frautschi, Richard Lane was born on November 14, 1926 in Rockford, Illinois, United States. Son of Irving F. and Gertrude Olive (Lane) Frautschi.
Bachelor, University Wisconsin, 1949. Certificat de License, University Bordeaux, University Paris, France, 1951. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1953.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1958.
French instructor, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1954-1958;
assistant professor French, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1958-1962;
associate professor French, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1962-1968;
professor French, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1968-1970;
professor French, department head, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1970-1989. Member Advanced Placement Committee-French Education Testing Svc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1970-1976. Consultant College Board, New York City, since 1976.
Visiting professor U. Warsaw, 1988-1990, St. Augustine's College, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1960-1970. Visiting fellow Macquarie U., 1982.
Member Modern Language Association, American Council Teaching Foreign Languages, American Association Teachers French, Northeast Modern Language Association, Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association, Sociétè francaise d'étude du 18e siecle, American 18th Century Society, East Center American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Association Computing in the Humanities, Association for Literacy and Linguistic Computing, Association pour la recherche cognitive, Printing History Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
Married Judith Guild, December 22, 1954 (divorced January 1971). Children: Mark Alden, Anne Hayden, Scott Sargent, Tyler Lane. Married Lucy Brooke Woods, November 17, 1973.