Graduate Students
French PhD Students
Spring 2021 Instructor Office Hours
| Name | Contact Information | Specialty |
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| Ray Balstad |
403 Folwell Hall
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feminist studies, women's writing and the bande dessinée |
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403 Folwell Hall
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20th and 21st Quebecois and francophone theatre; questions of gender, geography, and exile in identity; feminist theory; queer theory | |
| Cameron Cook |
403 Folwell Hall
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French hip hop, urban literature |
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403 Folwell Hall
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Martyrdom in both religious and social contexts; film and media studies and criticism; and contemporary French & Francophone literature | |
| Chloe Mais Hagen |
403 Folwell Hall
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Francophone literature and globalizing subcultures in France |
| Chris Holmes |
305A Folwell Hall
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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
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Mourning and nostalgia in Francophone migrant literature |
| Sally Kessler |
403 Folwell Hall
Kess0056@umn.edu |
How language embodies the abnormal body, disease, medical epistemologies; 19th-century literature |
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305A Folwell Hall
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Disenchantment & re-enchantment in 18th-century French literature, early modern print culture, second language acquisition and teaching with technology | |
| Jérémy Labbé |
403 Folwell Hall
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Dandyism; French philosophy; Post-Structuralism; Existentialism; 20th-century French Literature; Alternate History |
| Abraham Lamptey |
305A Folwell Hall
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Literary and cinematic representations of clandestine migration from Sub-saharan Africa to Europe in the 21st century |
| Deborah Lee-Ferrand |
403 Folwell Hall
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20th & 21st-century francophone literatures and cultures; food studies; gender and sexuality; cinema; medieval literature |
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403 Folwell Hall
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Postcolonial/Maghrebi literary and cinematic representations of women
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| Pauline Maison-Dessemme |
403 Folwell Hall
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Medieval and 19th Century French & English literature; feminist studies; tradition, myth and fascism in post-war France |
| Ben Obernolte |
303A Folwell Hall
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Medieval French and Iberian literature, intersections of class and gender, fabliaux, pastourelles, pastorelas, serranillas
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| Arwa Reda |
403 Folwell Hall
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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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Clandestine migration literature; Maghrebi and SubSaharan African literature and cinema; Postcolonial literature; 20th & 21st French literature and film; graphic novels and B.D.
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| Amgad Serour |
303A Folwell Hall
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visual ethics and seeing suffering in French and Francophone films of war, phenomenology of film, film studies, embodied film spectatorship, war films, affect theory, and ethics of mourning |
| Kirsten Smith |
403 Folwell Hall
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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 |
| Shiloh Stone |
403 Folwell Hall
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Representations of Paris in 18th and 19th-century literature |
| Charlotte Taubel |
403 Folwell Hall
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Death and mourning in 20th and 21st-century French literature and film |
| Fidele Tchoffo Tsasse | 403 Folwell Hall tchof001@umn.edu |
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| Jami Watson |
403 Folwell Hall
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Japonisme, Orientalism, Eastern-Western aesthetic, 19th century to contemporary French literature, explorer narratives |