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Students Awarded Doctoral Degrees in French Studies, 1990-2006 (as of 7/1/2006)

 
 

 

Claudia Esposito Ph.D 2007   Mediterranean Imaginaries: Writing Transcultural Subjectivities in Contemporary Francophone Literature.
  Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
Jean François Fournier Ph.D 2007    Présence du Rire et du Sourire Dans Les Oeuvres Poétiques de Charles Baudelaire.
   
Heidi Brevik-Zender Ph.D. 2006- From Fashion Writing to Writing Fashion: Modernity, Gender and La Mode in the Literature of Fin-de-Siècle Paris
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of French Studies,  Scripps College
Meadow Dibble-Dieng Ph.D 2006 - Liberation Journals: 20th Century Francophone Literary Journals and the Struggle for Sovereignty
  Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Department of French and Italian, Colby College
Katharine Harrington Ph.D. 2005 - Writing Outside the Box: Exploring a Nomadic Alternative in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature .
 

Assistant Prof. of French, University of Maine at Fort Kent. >>More info

Jean-Frédéric Hennuy         Ph.D. 2004 - Des iconoclastes heureux et sans complexe : Pour une dialectique des littératures francophones .
  Member of the Faculty, Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures, Bennington College.
Nanette Fornabai Ph.D. 2003 - (In)Humanizing Norms: Machines, Fantoms and Detectives in Modern French Popular Culture .
  Assistant Prof., Dept. of French and Italian, University of California at Irvine. >>More info
Lisa Walters                     Ph.D. 2003: - Teaching the Nation: Pedagogical Strategies of Postcolonial Francophone Women Writers and Filmmakers .
   
Heather McCoy Ph.D.2003.-"Staging the Algerian War: Theatrical Responses To The War That Dare Not Speak Its Name"
  French Program Language Coordinator, Dept. of French and Francophone Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
   
Aaron Prevots   Ph.D. 2002 - Poetry as Authentic Speech: Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Réda .
  Assistant Prof., Dept. of Modern Languages, Southwestern University. >>More info
Marie-Chantal Killeen Ph.D. 2001 - Au seuil de l'indicible: le "jeu insensé d'écrire" chez Jabès, Blanchot et Duras .
  Essai sur l'indicible, Jabès, Blanchot, Duras . Saint-Denis: Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2004.  
Rhodes Trust D.M. Stewart Fellow in Modern Languages and Tutor in French,   Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.>>More info.
Nadia Sahely Ph.D. 2001 - Unity, Dissymmetry, Utopia: Visions of the Couple in Modern France.
 

Assistant Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Baldwin-Wallace College.

Eduardo Antonio Febles Ph.D. 2000 - Explosive Narratives: Anarchy and the Demise of Naturalism in Zola's "Germinal," "Paris," and "Travail."
  Assistant Prof. Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, Simmons College.
Christine Marie Gaspar Ph.D. 2000 - The Female Literary Quest: The Intertextual Community of Women Writers in Maryse Condé's "La Migration des coeurs" and Marguerite Duras's "Emily L."
   
Ran-E Hong                         Ph.D. 2000 - L'impossible social selon Molière . Collection Biblio 17, 2002, N o 135. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002.
   
Seth Adam Whidden Ph.D. 2000 - Subversions in Figure and Form: The Post-Parnassian Women and Versification of Arthur Rimbaud and Marie Krysinska .
 

Marie Krysinska. Rythmes pittoresques: édition critique établie par Seth Whidden. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2003.
Assistant Prof., Dept. of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Villanova University. >>More info.

Thomas Armbrecht P h.D. 1999 - Autres Voix: Sexuality and Literary Genre in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar and Julien Green .
  Assistant Prof., Dept. of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin at Madison. >>More info
Deborah Julie Hahn Ph.D. 1999 - The School for Widows: Gender, (Re)Marriage, And Comedy On The Absolutist Stage .
  Coordinator of Scholarships and Fellowships, Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Brandeis University
Jacinta Wright Ph.D. 1999 - Reigning Men: Constructions of Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel .
  Lecturer in French Language and Literature, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Intercultural Studies Section, Dublin City University. >>More info
Laurence Huughe Ph.D. 1998 - "Regard interdit, son coupé": problématique du regard et représentation chez les romancières algériennes et beures d'Assia Djebar à Nina Bouraoui .
  Teacher of French, Milton Academy
Robyn Brothers

Ph.D. 1997 - Literary Ethics and the Problem of Moral Rationalism in Proust and Sartre .

   
Laura M. Knowlton

Ph.D. 1997 - Healthy Appetites: Diet and the Representation of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France

   
Anne Richardot Ph.D. 1997 - Le rire des Lumières . Paris: Champion, 2002.
 

Femmes et libertinage au XVIII e siècle ou les caprices de Cythère . Ed. Anne Richardot. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2003.
Maîtresse de conférences en littérature française à l'Université de Lille III 

Valerie Key Orlando Ph.D. 1996 - Beyond Postcolonial Discourse: New Problematics of Feminine Identity in Contemporary Francophone Literature .
 

Nomadic Voices of Exile: Feminine Identity In Francophone Literature of the Maghreb . Athens : Ohio University Press, 1999.
Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean . Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2003.
Associate Prof. of French and Francophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park.

Angelina Overvold Ph.D. 1996 - La mère de son père: George Sand entre l'autobiographie et l'autofiction .
 

The Creative Circle: Artist, Critic, and Translator in African literature . Ed. Angelina Overvold et al .   Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of French, Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education

Marjorie Salvodon Ph.D. 1996 - Shifting Boundaries: The Interplay of Place and Displacement in Selected Contemporary Francophone Narratives .
  Assistant Prof., Dept. of Humanities and Modern Languages, Suffolk University . >>More info
Lucie Ashraf Ph.D. 1995 - Le défi sollersien.
   
Jennifer Gage Ph.D. 1994 - The Translator Translated: Fictional Economies of Translation .      
  Professional Translator and Cataloguing Assistant, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Felicia Kirk   Ph.D. 1994 - Visual Incriminations: Female Criminality in French Naturalist Fiction .
   
Jody McQuillan Ph.D. 1994 - The Games Fools Play: Multivalence in the Sottie .  
   
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Ph.D. 1994 - Through the White Male Gaze: Black Venus .

 

Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms . Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.
Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.
Negritude Women .   Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.  
Fanon: A Critical Reader . Ed. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting et al . Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
Spoils of War: Women of Color, Culture, And Revolutions . Ed. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Renée T. White. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.
The Black Feminist Reader . Ed. Joy James and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.   Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.     
Director of African American and Diaspora Studies, Professor of French and African American Studies, Vanderbilt University.>>More Info

Anna Klosowska Roberts Ph.D. 1994 - Le thème de l'inceste dans le roman français du Moyen Age: Roman du comte d'Anjou, Roman de Thèbes .
 

Queer Love in the Middle Ages . New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
Violence against Women in Medieval Texts . Ed. Anna Roberts. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.  
Assistant Prof., Dept. of French and Italian, Miami University of Ohio

Eileen Angelini Ph.D. 1993 - L'écriture de soi: Strategies of "Writing the Self" in the Works of Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, and Alain Robbe-Grillet .                 
 

Strategies of Writing the Self in the French Modern Novel: C'est moi, je crois . Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 2002.  
Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

Annabelle Cone Ph.D. 1993 - Write at Home: Representations of Domestic Space in Sand, Colette and Duras .   
  Senior Lecturer, Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College
Nathalie Rogers Ph.D. 1993 - Fictions du scandale: l'héroïne romanesque au dix-neuvième siècle .
 

Fictions du scandale: corps féminin et réalisme romanesque au dix-neuvième siècle . West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1998.  
Associate Professor, French Department, Wellesley College

Annie K. Smart Ph.D. 1993 - "Submersive" Mothers: Statehood and the Ideal of Motherhood from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Flora Tristan .
  Associate Prof., Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, Saint Louis University.
Debra Terzian Ph.D. 1993 - Growing Up Female in Fiction: Reading Women's Developmental Narrative in Madame de Lafayette, Germaine de Staël, and George Sand.
  Associate Director, Programs Management, International Education Administration, Boston University
Carol Lee Wilson

Ph.D. 1993 - Exotica: Narratives of the Exotic Body and the Fin-de-siècle .

   
Marie-Dominique Boyce Ph.D. 1992 - Le dialogisme dans le roman rustique .            
  Lector, French, Yale University   
Sylvia Hatcher-Smith Ph.D. 1992 - Religion in Ousmane Sembène's Novels and Films .
   
Ana-Maria Ramirez Ph.D. 1992 - Autobiography as an Experience of Communication .            
  Visiting Assistant Prof., St. Mary's College, MD
Scott R. Russell Ph.D. 1992 - Héroïsme et bâtardise: Alexandre Dumas, Georges .
   
Laurent Ditmann Ph.D. 1991 - La guerre et ses mots : problématique et pratique du roman de guerre chez Julien Gracq, Robert Merle et Claude Simon .
   
Les Essif Ph.D. 1991 - The Theatricality and Sociocultural Relevance of Surrealist Hypersubjectivity in the French Nouveau Théâtre .  
 

Empty figure on an empty stage : the theatre of Samuel Beckett and his generation . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2001
Associate Prof., Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.>>More info

Deborah Jean Lee Ph.D. 1991 - From Fission to Fusion: The Evolution of the Reader's Role from Modernists to Postmodernist French Fiction .
  Visiting Lecturer, University of Massachusetts
   
Chiara Leone Ph.D. 1991 - Chrétien de Troyes, Gautier D'Arras et les débuts du roman .
   
Barbara Miskell Ph.D. 1991 - Beckett and Duras: A Study of Subjectivity .              
   
Mary Snider Ph.D. 1991- Les métaphores animales dans les atlas linguistiques et ethnographiques de la France .        
 

Mary Snider, David Bachner, and Laurence Malone. Learning Interdependence: A Case Study of International/Intercultural Education of First-Year College Students University of South Carolina, 2001.
Associate Professor of French, Chair of Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Hartwick College.>>More Info

Marie Lathers Ph.D. 1990 - Villiers de l'lsle-Adam's L'Eve future: sculpture, photography, and the feminine .
 

The Aesthetics of Artifice : Villiers's L'Eve future . Chapel Hill: U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, 1996.
Treuhaft Professor of Humanities and French, Director of the interdisciplinary Program in French Studies, Dept. of modern languages and Literatures, Case Western Reserve University.>>More Info

Gerard Lavatori Ph.D. 1990 - Language and Money in Rabelais . New York: P. Lang, 1996.    
 

Prof., Chair of French Program, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of La Verne

 

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