Dr. Uma Damodar Sridhar is the coordinator for the Online OER in French. She is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies since 2009. She has been teaching and translating French for over more than twenty years, and has worked at the Alliance Française of Hyderabad prior to joining the EFL university. She has an MPhil in Translation and a PhD in the Acquisition of Intercultural competence among students of French in India. She teaches Linguistics, Translation and Methodology of teaching French as a foreign language at the university, and has several publications in these areas.