Meet Our Students

Read about Agnès Schaffauser's research interests in postcolonial literature, Maghrebi literature, gender studies, and psychoanalysis.

PhD candidate Shiloh Stone explains how he brings his background in mining to his study of mining novels in nineteenth-century France.

Read about PhD candidate Abraham Lamptey's research into the portrayal of clandestine migration in francophone literature and cinema, and his additional interests of refugee…

See how Ben Obernolte's dissertation examines interactions across gender and class in medieval literature in Old French, Old Occitan, and Old Castillan.

Learn about Christopher Ice's interdisciplinary studies and his dissertation on contemporary French comedians of immigrant background and their subversion of societal…

Find out about Geneviève Young's research of Old French and Old Occitan epic poetry, and about her accomplishments as a Medievalist while here at the University of Minnesota.

Explore Selim Rauer's work in Francophone and French postcolonial literature and drama, European postwar theater aesthetics, and French politics.

Read about Amgad Serour's focus of his doctoral work on spectatorship and imagination in French twentieth-century avant-garde cinema and literature.

Find out more about Alexandre DuBois's dissertation project on nineteenth-century French poetry and his publications in French studies and game studies.