Graduate Students

French PhD Students

 

Name Specialty
Taylor Irene Diaz  Jewish-French Feminist Studies, Gender and Sexuality in the French Language, Ecriture Inclusive, French Woman Writers, Gender in the Francophone World,
Chloe Mais Hagen Francophone literature and globalizing subcultures in France
Niloufar Hosseinalipour 20th and 21st Century French Literature, Migrant literature
Noah Goodwin Martyrdom in both religious and social contexts; film and media studies and criticism; and contemporary French & Francophone literature
Christopher Ice Mourning and nostalgia in Francophone migrant literature
Sally Kessler How language embodies the abnormal body, disease, medical epistemologies; 19th-century literature
Jérémy Labbé Dandyism; French philosophy; Post-Structuralism; Existentialism; 20th-century French Literature; Alternate History
Pauline Maison-Dessemme French feminist thought and "écriture féminine"; gender studies and politics of identity; French and English literature (19th-21st Century and medieval); multimedia studies (film, series and bande-dessinée).
Ben Obernolte Medieval French and Iberian literature, intersections of class and gender, fabliaux, pastourelles, pastorelas, serranillas
 
Arwa Reda

Ethics, testimony, and the detective genre; Memory and trauma studies; 20th-21st century Holocaust French literature and Francophone Maghrebi literature

Shima Shranvard  20th- and 21st- century French and Francophone literature and film, visual studies, interdisciplinary studies between literary forms and other representations of image
Maxime Gregoire  Exchange Student From France
Kirsten Smith Multilingualism and transnationalism in film and media; Québécois cinema and history; Franco-Arab film, media, and literature; travel, language, and identity in film and literature
Fidele Tchoffo Tsasse Moral and politic philosophy, Postcolonial literature with an emphasis on West African literature, immigration, and cinema