Faculty
Below you can browse the profiles of our faculty.
Regular Faculty
Hakim Abderrezak
Specialties
Maghrebi and Beur Literature, Cinema and Music; Clandestine Migrations in Arabic, French and Spanish; The Contemporary Western Mediterranean; Francophone Studies
Lydia Belateche
Specialties
19th- & 20th-century French literature and thought; art history; philosophical approaches to literature; linguistic approaches to literature
Bruno Chaouat
Specialties
Intellectual and cultural history (20th-21st century France); Literary theory; 20th century novel; Ethics and literature; Holocaust studies
Juliette Cherbuliez
Specialties
Ethics and experience of violence; 17th-century French literature and culture, esp. drama and the novel; Dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies; Libertinism and free-thinking; Feminist Theory and Philosophy
Lorenzo Fabbri
Specialties
Film History and Theory; Continental Philosophy; Postcolonial Studies; Visual Culture under Fascism; Biopolitics
Susanna Ferlito
Specialties
Italian 19th writers in France; History of Emotions; Feminist studies; Literary theory; Risorgimento studies
Ramon Fonkoue
Specialties
African literature and cinema, French Caribbean literature; postcolonial critique, visual and film studies, race studies
Ashlie Henery
Specialties
Second Language Acquisition; French language; Multiliteracies pedagogies; Language teacher development
Kate Paesani
Specialties
applied linguistics; critical pedagogies; postsecondary language programs; language teacher cognition and identity formation
Jennifer Row
Specialties
Queer theory; Disability Studies; Early Modern Dramatic Literature (French and English); Dance history and performance studies; Affect Theory; Histories and archives of sexuality and gender; Literary theory and history of rhetoric
Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag
Specialties
Francophone literature and film; Postcolonial Studies; Politics and Aesthetics; Gender and Sexuality
Christophe Wall-Romana
Specialties
French cinema; Science and Technology Studies; Media history; Modern French poetry; Silent cinema; Modern French philosophy and theory; 19th- & 20th-century French literature and thought
Affiliate Faculty
Rose Brewer
Specialties
Social transformation; Critical theory; African American women's studies; Black family life; Class; Gender; Intersection of economy; Race; Racism; Sociology; Women's studies
Siobhan Craig
Specialties
Fascist-era cinema in Italy and Germany; Italian Neorealism; new German cinema; monsters and hybrids; the cinematic body; literary and cultural theory after 1968: psychoanalysis, queer and feminist theories, post-modern theories of language and meaning, film theory
Gabriela Currie
Specialties
Global perspectives: historical ethnomusicology (pre- and early-modern); Eurasian music iconography and archaeology; Early ethnographic accounts of musical traditions in Eurasia and Africa; Intersections between musical and scientific thought in the early- and pre-modern eras; Music and culture of the Balkan Penninsula, Western and Central Asia
Amanda Dalola
Specialties
Sociophonetics; Sociolinguistics; Social media mining; Phonetics; Phonology; Social media in the L2 classroom; Open Educational Resource (OER) development; AI applications for L2 teaching and learning
Njeri Githire
Specialties
African Popular Cultures; African Cinema; Postcolonial Theory & Criticism; Gender Studies & Feminist Theory; Francophone Studies; Immigration, Migration & Transnational Networks in Africa/the Diaspora; African Diaspora Studies; African Literarature; Food, (Non)-Eating, and Related Topics in African Literature,
Leslie Morris
Specialties
German Jewish studies; Holocaust and Memory studies; Comparative literature and literary theory; 20th- & 21st-century German and Austrian literature and poetry; Experimental poetry; Narrative medicine; psychoanalysis
Shaden M. Tageldin
Specialties
Histories and ideologies of comparative literature; Empire and postcolonial studies; Critical translation theory; Aesthetics and biologics of race, nation, culture; Literatures of migration and diaspora; 19th- and 20th-century literatures in English, Arabic, French; Trans-African and trans-Asian studies; Politics of language, literary form, genre
Emeriti Faculty
Frank Akehurst
Specialties
medieval French law; French language; courtly love; troubadours; Old Occitan (Old Provení§al) literature; French medieval literature
Maria Brewer
Specialties
20th- and 21st-century French literature and critical thought; modern and contemporary theater in France; French theater of the diaspora
Daniel Brewer
Specialties
France; language and culture; the Enlightenment; French cultural studies; 17th- and 18th-century French literature and culture
Betsy Kerr
Specialties
connectors in speech; features in oral narratives of learners of French; French language in Canada; French linguistics; history of French language; informal spoken French; second language acquisition; teaching of foreign languages; grammar of English and French
Susan Noakes
Specialties
French and Italian literature and poetry; Women's studies; Banking and economics in medieval literature; The Global Middle Ages
Maria Paganini
Specialties
20th-century French prose; Blanchot; Flaubert; Jean Genet; legal discourse; Proust; Sartre; writing in confinement
J Preckshot
Specialties
20th century France; Francophone literature; literary theory; poetry; Surrealism
Peter Robinson
Specialties
19th-century French poetry and culture; Baudelaire; French art song; social role of the poet
Eileen Sivert
Specialties
narrative and feminist theory; women's studies; Quebec literature and culture; 19th-century French studies