Graduate Students
French PhD Students
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Mondays & Thursdays 5-6
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| Rachael Balstad | bals0089@umn.edu Tuesdays 10:15-12:15; by appt. |
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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Mondays 10:30-11:30; Wednesdays 1:30-2:30; by appt
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| Cameron Cook |
cook0353@umn.edu
Wednesdays 10:30-12:30 |
French hip hop, urban literature |
| Alexandre Dubois | 303A Folwell Hall duboi118@umn.edu Mondays & Wednesdays 10-11; by appt. |
19th and 20th century French literature, continental philosophy, Nihilism and Gnosticism, poetry |
| Chris Holmes |
Thursdays 2:45-4:45
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The 19th century novel, aesthetics of the realist novel, history of science and psychology, history of literary criticism |
| Christopher Ice | icexx013@umn.edu Mondays & Wednesdays 12:30-1:30 |
Mourning and nostalgia in Francophone migrant literature |
| Sean Killackey |
304A Folwell Hall killa012@umn.edu
Tuesdays 12:15-1:15, Wednesdays 10-11; by appt. |
Representation of nature in 18th century French literature, garden theory, early modern studies in print culture, second language acquistion |
| Abraham Lamptey | lampt010@umn.edu Mondays & Tuesdays 10:00-11:00; by appt. |
Literary and cinematic representations of clandestine migration from Sub-saharan Africa to Europe in the 21st century |
| Farrah Mahroug | mahro004@umn.edu Wednesdays 9-11; by appt. |
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| Chloe Mais-Hagen | maisx001@umn.edu In France |
Francophone literature and globalizing subcultures in France |
| Abou-Bakar Mamah |
Wednesdays 11:00-12:00, Thursdays 1:30-2:30
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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 | 305A Folwell Hall swop0002@umn.edu | Speculative fiction and technologized experience in the French Third Republic |
| Benjamin Obernolte | obern011@umn.edu In France |
Researching medieval literature
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| Rachel Payia-Yang | payia001@umn.edu Mondays 12:30-2:30; by appt. |
Postcolonial literature, Asian Francophone literature, and cultural identity production among writers with personal connections to Asia, specifically Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia |
| 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 |
| Arwa Reda | reda0020@umn.edu | |
| Agnès Schaffauser | schaf426@umn.edu Mondays & Wednesdays 11-12; 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 |
| Charlotte Soulpin-Taubel | 305A Folwell Hall soulp003@umn.edu Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:30; by appt. |
Death and mourning in 20th and 21st century French literature and film |
| Shiloh Stone | stone747@umn.edu Wednesdays 10-11; by appt. |
Representations of Paris in 18th and 19th century literature |
| Jami Watson |
Tuesdays & Wednesdays 1-2; by appt.
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| Geneviève Young | 303A Folwell Hall youn0561@umn.edu Wednesdays & Thursdays 1:15-2:15; by appt. |
Laughter in Old French and Old Occitan epics; Linguistic hybridity in medieval France; Medieval political poetry |
Visiting Graduate Students from France
| Name | Contact | |
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| Nathanaëlle Loubet-Sruh | Mondays 1-2pm, Wednesdays 11:30-12:30; by appt. | loube004@umn.edu |
| Clémentine Raffy | raffy001@umn.edu |