Graduate Students
French PhD Students
| Name | Contact Information & Office Hours | Specialty |
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| Lizzy Baden | baden020@umn.edu | |
| Rachael Balstad | bals0089@umn.edu Mondays & Thursdays 12-1 |
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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| Sarah Boardman | boar0016@umn.edu | Transgression of boundaries between cultures and Francophone literature, immigration literatures between the Carribean, Canada, Africa, and Europe |
| Peter Caswell | caswe063@umn.edu Tuesdays & Wednesdays 11-12 |
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| Cameron Cook | cook0353@umn.edu | French hip hop, urban literature |
| Alexandre Dubois | duboi118@umn.edu Mondays & Tuesdays 10-11 |
19th and 20th century French literature, continental philosophy, Nihilism and Gnosticism, poetry |
| Chloe Hagen | maisx001@umn.edu Mondays 1-2 & Thursdays 5-6 |
Francophone literature and globalizing subcultures in France |
| Chris Holmes | holm0487@umn.edu | The 19th century novel, aesthetics of the realist novel, history of science and psychology, history of literary criticism |
| Christopher Ice | icexx013@umn.edu Tuesdays & Thursdays 10-11 |
Mourning and nostalgia in Francophone migrant literature |
| Sean Killackey | killa012@umn.edu Wednesdays & Thursdays 1:15-2:15 |
Representation of nature in 18th century French literature, garden theory, early modern studies in print culture, second language acquistion |
| Herman Koutouan | kouto003@umn.edu | Medieval literature; notions of identity, migrancy, and cultures in the postcolonial period; orality, cultural/literary implications, and its ambiguities in both medieval Europe and sub-Saharan African literature |
| Abraham Lamptey | lampt010@umn.edu Mondays & Tuesdays 12:30-1:30 |
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| Deborah Lee-Ferrand | ferr0382@umn.edu Mondays & Thursdays 5:15-6:15 |
Representation and symbolism of food and food habits in postcolonial Francophone literature, race and gender issues, slave and neo-slave narratives, the African-American vampire as metaphor in speculative fictions |
| Farrah Mahroug | mahro004@umn.edu Mondays 10:30-12:30; by appt. |
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| Abou-Bakar Mamah | mamah001@umn.edu | Postdemocracy, Afropolitanism, Afrofuturism and Migratory Movement in Francophone Africa. My work explores through literature, cinema, theater, and music the sociopolitical changes taking place in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990’s. |
| Lia Mitchell | swop0002@umn.edu | Speculative fiction and technologized experience in the French Third Republic |
| Benjamin Obernolte | obern011@umn.edu Mondays & Tuesdays 12:15-1:15 |
Researching medieval literature
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| Rachel Payia-Yang | payia001@umn.edu Tuesdays 9:45-11:45 |
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| Selim Rauer | rauer004@umn.edu Mondays 10:30-12:30 |
Postcolonial literature; postcolonial theory; French and Francophone modern literature; exile and alterity; modern drama; European contemporary theater aesthetics |
| Agnès Schaffauser | schaf426@umn.edu Mondays & Wednesdays 10-11; by appt. |
Post-colonial literature; Maghrebi literature and film; immigration, migration, and diaspora literature |
| Amgad Serour | serou001@umn.edu Tuesdays 10-12 |
Spectatorship and imagination in French 20th century avant-garde cinema and literature |
| Shiloh Stone | stone747@umn.edu Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10-11; by appt. |
Representations of Paris in 18th and 19th century literature |
| Charlotte Taubel | soulp003@umn.edu Wednesdays 9-11; by appt. |
Death and mourning in 20th and 21st century French literature and film |
| Geneviève Young | youn0561@umn.edu Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:20-2:20 |
Medieval French epics, literary interactions between medieval cultures, reception of the medieval in later periods |
Visiting Graduate Students from France
| Name | Contact |
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| Anissa Khamkham | khamk001@umn.edu Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:20-12:20 |
| Gwennoline Sola | solax009@umn.edu Thursdays 10-12 |