Nancy M. McElveen joined the Greensboro College faculty as a professor of French in 1989. A Winthrop College and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate, McElveen has previous experience teaching French at Wilson Hall School, Francis Marion College and North Carolina State University. At Greensboro College, she currently has a full plate, holding the positions of director of the National Endowment for the Humanities grant for women's studies, director of the Connexion exchange program, full professor of French, a study abroad advisor, researcher, writer and member of several professional organizations.
In September 2000, Greensboro College's women's studies  program was the recipient of a $25,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Focus Grant that provides funds to bring visiting scholars to campus, to purchase study materials and to support faculty participation in seminars and workshops to discuss scholarship and pedagogy in women's studies. The grant not only funds the faculty development seminar with visiting scholars, but also has assisted Greensboro College in hosting four public lectures. The women's studies minor was approved in December 1999 and was added to the curriculum at Greensboro College in the fall of 2000.
McElveen began the study abroad program at Greensboro College in the fall of 1996. Since then, she has been the director of the program, helping students with travel arrangements, academic concerns, transfer credits, housing, registration and cultural difficulties. Greensboro College students have traveled to England, France, Kenya, Israel, Spain, Costa Rica, Northern Ireland, Australia and a semester at sea around the world. McElveen describes this as a growing program - one that has sent five students to study abroad this semester.
McElveen is also the director of the Connexion London exchange program that joins two Methodist Colleges - Greensboro College and Southlands College, located in the suburbs of London. She coordinates all travel arrangements and works with the director at Southlands College during this direct exchange. Greensboro College has three students studying in London this semester.
In March, McElveen, along with Assistant Professor of Religion Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch and Professor of Psychology Ann Walter-Fromson are presenting a paper at the Southeastern Women's Studies Association meeting in Boca Raton, Fla. In January, she and Burnette-Bletsch made a presentation about the NEH focus grants at a workshop on grant writing sponsored by the NEH in Boone. McElveen is also awaiting the publishing of two works - "The Paradox of 'Embodied Absence': Present Absence in Racine's Secular Tragedies" and a preface for Eileen Angelini titled "Me Voici: Strategies of 'Writing the Self' in the French Modern Novel."
McElveen is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Association of Teachers of French, Society for Interdisciplinary 17th Century French Studies, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the North Carolina Association of International Educators, Pi Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Alpha Theta.
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