Graduate Students in French

Emily Adams

• 19th-century Literature, gender studies, modernity
• Dissertation title: "The Other Side of Modernity: Female Types and the Invention of the Modern Artist in Nineteenth-Century France"

Arcana Albright

• Contemporary French Novel
• Dissertation title: "Remapping the Private Sphere: Intimacy in Jean-Philippe Toussaint's Fiction, Film, and Photography"

Ekaterina Alexandrova

Benjamin Baker

Anne Bornschein

• Medieval sexual discourse; gender theory; Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century renderings of the Arthurian cycle

Patrick Brown

Devin Bryson

• Contemporary Sub-Saharan African fiction; sexuality and gender studies
• Dissertation title: "Masculine Dimensions: Gender and Migration in Francophone Literature and Culture"
  

Katherine Cardin

• 20th-century French literature; WWII and the Holocaust
• Dissertation (working title): "'Enfant de collabo': Children of French WWII Collaborators and Their Literary Confrontations with a Controversial Legacy"

Tilden Daniels

• 20th-century French literature; poetry; visual arts
• Dissertation title: "Acts of Resistance: Visual Arts and Textual Practices in the Works of Henri Michaux and Michel Butor"
  

Christina Elefteriades

Jessica Garcés Jensen

• 20th & 21st century French and Francophone literature; female reproductive body and body image in French fiction
• Dissertation title: "Reproductive Bodies: Female Reproductive Body Images in Contemporary French Fiction (1990 - present)"
  

Caroline Grubbs

Lucas Hollister

Kathleen Kasten

Samuel Martin

François Massonnat

• Contemporary French novel, cinema, representations (and non-representation) of the Algerian War

Elizabeth McCartney

• 19th century novel and literary theory

Ian McConnon

• Medieval romance, medieval philosophy, allegory and patristics
  

Melissa Motley

Matthew Pagett

Sara Phenix

• Inscrutability in 19th-century literature

Namrata Poddar

• Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French and Francophone Literature - on and from the Indian Ocean Islands, and Mauritius in particular
• Dissertation title: “Paradoxes of Insularity: Re-navigating the Island through the contemporary, francophone, Mauritian novel”

Tina-Marie Ranalli

• Medieval literature; representations of sex, violence, and the body; codes for gender roles

Charlotte Ritzman

Angelina Stelmach

• Medieval French literature; 20th-century literature and literary theory

Lucy Swanson

• 19th century French literature, especially poetry

Hervé Tchumkam

Kristin Williamson

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