Graduate Students
French PhD Students
| Name | Contact Information & Office Hours | Specialty |
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| Ray Balstad |
403 Folwell Hall
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Feminist theory, queer theory, film, 19th and 20th century French literature and comic books, intersections of math and science with the humanities
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403 Folwell Hall
Wednesdays 9:00-11:00; by appt.
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| Cameron Cook |
403 Folwell Hall
cook0353@umn.edu
Mondays and Thursdays 10:00-11:00; by appt. |
French hip hop, urban literature |
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303A Folwell Hall
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19th and 20th century French literature, continental philosophy, Nihilism and Gnosticism, poetry | |
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403 Folwell Hall
Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30-12:30; by appt.
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Representations of homosexuality in early modern French literature, French Jewish literature, postcolonial Studies, representations of violence in film and television, and Southeast Asian studies.
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| Chloe Mais Hagen |
403 Folwell Hall
Tuesdays 10:00-12:00
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Francophone literature and globalizing subcultures in France |
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403 Folwell Hall
Thursdays 1:30-3:30, and by appointment here.
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17th century French literature; Medieval literature and society; French Canadian civilization; post-structuralism
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| Chris Holmes |
305A Folwell Hall
Wednesdays 12:15-2:15
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The 19th century novel, aesthetics of the realist novel, history of science and psychology, history of literary criticism |
| Christopher Ice |
403 Folwell Hall
icexx013@umn.edu
Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:15-12:15 |
Mourning and nostalgia in Francophone migrant literature |
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403 Folwell Hall
Monday 5-6pm
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French Caribbean women's literature, popular music and feminism, Black feminism, postcolonial studies
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305A Folwell Hall
killa012@umn.edu
Mondays & Thursdays 5:15-6:15 PM |
Disenchantment & re-enchantment in 18th-century French literature, early modern print culture, second language acquisition and teaching with technology | |
| Abraham Lamptey |
403 Folwell Hall
lampt010@umn.edu
Tuesdays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:00 |
Literary and cinematic representations of clandestine migration from Sub-saharan Africa to Europe in the 21st century |
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403 Folwell Hall
mahro004@umn.edu
Thursdays from 10a.m. to 12p.m. or by appt. Reserve a slot here
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18th-century French Literature and Theory; women’s representation in the Enlightenment; 20th- and 21st-century French, Francophone and postcolonial studies, theory and film studies; role of literature, media, and archives in Post-WWII Productions; representation of colonialism in literature and films
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| Lia Mitchell | swop0002@umn.edu | Speculative fiction and technologized experience in the French Third Republic |
| Benjamin Obernolte |
303A Folwell Hall
Mondays 12:15-2:15
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Medieval French and Iberian literature, intersections of class and gender, fabliaux, pastourelles, pastorelas, serranillas
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| Rachel Payia-Yang |
403 Folwell Hall
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Exophonic Asian writers of French, Indochina and post-Indochina literature and cinema, postcolonial studies |
| Selim Rauer |
305A Folwell Hall
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Postcolonial literature; postcolonial theory; French and Francophone modern literature; exile and alterity; modern drama; European contemporary theater aesthetics |
| Arwa Reda |
403 Folwell Hall
Mondays and Wednesdays 10:00-11:00
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19th- & 20th-century French literature & thought; Francophone literature; ethics; testimony; detective fiction
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| Agnès Schaffauser |
403 Folwell Hall
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Postcolonial literature; Maghrebi literature and film; immigration, migration, and diaspora literature |
| Amgad Serour |
303A Folwell Hall
serou001@umn.edu
Mondays & Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 |
Spectatorship and imagination in French 20th century avant-garde cinema and literature |
| Shiloh Stone |
403 Folwell Hall
stone747@umn.edu
Mondays 12:30-2:30; by appt. |
Representations of Paris in 18th and 19th century literature |
| Charlotte Taubel |
314B Folwell Hall
By appointment
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Death and mourning in 20th and 21st century French literature and film |
| Jami Watson |
403 Folwell Hall
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Japonisme, Orientalism, Eastern-Western aesthetic, 19th century to contemporary French literature, explorer narratives |
| Geneviève Young |
303A Folwell Hall
Mondays and Wednesdays 12:00-1:00
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Laughter in Old French and Old Occitan epics; linguistic hybridity in medieval France; Medieval political poetry |
Visiting Graduate Students from France
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| Jérémy Labbé |
403 Folwell Hall
Wednesdays 11:00-5:00
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| Pauline Monjo |
403 Folwell Hall
Tuesdays 1:00-3:00
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