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Emily Lorraine de Montluzin
b. March 12, 1948
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, the daughter of Rene de Montluzin, Jr., and Emily Hosmer de Montluzin, was bom in New Orleans, LA, and grew up in Bay St. Louis. She graduated from Christ Episcopal Day School in 1962 and from Bay High School in 1966 as valedictorian of both her classes. In 1970 she received her B.A., summa cum laude, with honors (and distinction) in History, having been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and designated a Woodrow Wilson Fellow; and she received her M.A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1974) in British history from Duke University.
In 1974 Lorraine joined the faculty of the Department of History of Francis Marion College (later Francis Marion University) in Florence, SC, where she taught courses in 18th- and 19th-century British history, medieval European history, and 18th- and 19th-century European cultural and intellectual history until she retired in 2005 with the rank of Professor of History, after thirty-one years of service. She was named the Distinguished Professor of 1987-88 and in 2002 was designated one of Francis Marion University?s first two Trustees Research Scholars. A charter member of Francis Marion?s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi honor society, she was also inducted into Phi Alpha Theta (the national history honor society), Sigma Tau Delta (the national English honor society), and Omicron Delta Kappa service fraternity. Upon her retirement from Francis Marion University she was elected by the faculty to the status of Professor of History, emeritus, and the microform and periodicals room of Rogers Library was designated by the university as the Emily Lorraine de Montluzin Research Room.
The direct descendant of four teachers, Lorraine was for many years a leading advocate of faculty governance and academic freedom at Francis Marion University. She served for several terms as a member of the Faculty Senate, in addition to chairing or serving as a member of a score of additional faculty committees. During the 1990?s, a decade overlapping the extremely troubled regimes of two of Francis Marion?s presidents, she took a central role as a faculty advocate, founding and serving as first president of the university?s chapter of the American Association of University Professors and (together with a small handful of like-minded colleagues) taking up the potentially career-wrecking task of spearheading the faculty vote of no-confidence and the legislative audit of the university that finally led to the dismissal of FMU?s third president by the Board of Trustees. Working in collaboration with FMU?s fourth president, Luther Fredrick Carter, she played a leading role in restoring best practices of faculty governance and academic freedom at her troubled university. In 2000 she was unanimously voted the winner of the first Francis Marion University Shared Governance Award, and in 2013 FMU established the E. Lorraine de Montluzin Endowed Chair for Shared Governance.
Lorraine has been an active scholar, publishing to date eight books and over forty scholarly articles in her research field of 18th- and 19th-century British press history. She is also the co-author (with her mother) of Dearest Arlette: Everyday Life in Postwar America and France, 1945-1955, as Recorded in the Letters of Two Reunited Families (2011).
Upon her retirement in 2005, Lorraine returned to Bay St. Louis until Hurricane Katrina destroyed her home, forcing her to move back to South Carolina. There she continues her research as a professor emeritus at Francis Marion University and serves as secretary-treasurer of the board of the Emily de Montluzin Foreign Language Scholarship.
[Account prepared by Emily Hosmer de Montluzin and Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, June 2013]