Staff & Officers

Below you can browse the profiles of our staff & officers.

Office

Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag

Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Department Chair

Specialties

Francophone literature and film; Postcolonial Studies; Politics and Aesthetics; Gender and Sexuality

Academic Officers

Lorenzo Fabbri.

Lorenzo Fabbri

Associate Professor of French and Italian Studies

Specialties

Film History and Theory; Continental Philosophy; Postcolonial Studies; Visual Culture under Fascism; Biopolitics

Ramon Fonkoue.

Ramon Fonkoue

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Director of Graduate Studies

Specialties

African literature and cinema, French Caribbean literature; postcolonial critique, visual and film studies, race studies

Kate Paesani

Kate Paesani

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Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Specialties

applied linguistics; critical pedagogies; postsecondary language programs; language teacher cognition and identity formation

Instructional Leadership

Ashlie Henery

Ashlie Henery

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Senior Lecturer in French, Coordinator of First-Year French

Specialties

Second Language Acquisition; French language; Multiliteracies pedagogies; Language teacher development

Affiliated Staff

Brian Vetruba

Interim Librarian for Francophone & Italian Studies

Library Arts and Humanities
Room 1A OMWL
612-625-8161
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