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Office hours: Monday, 1:00-3:00,Rochambeau House Library
FREN 600, Section
Josh Blaylock received a BA in French and History from the University of Montana in 2001 and completed an MA in French in 2005 at the same institution. His interests include 16th and 17th century literature, literary theory, latin, and cinema. He is currently exploring the dynamics of secrecy in the courtly literature of Early Modern France.
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Office hours: Friday, 12:00-2:00,Rockfeller Library Lobby
FREN 400, Section
Shannon Bragg received an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris IV la Sorbonne in 2010, for which she wrote her thesis on the image of death in early 20th century European cinema. Her main interests include film studies and aesthetics, fantastic literature (especially in the 19th century) and Quebec studies. |
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Office hours: Monday & Friday, 10:00-11:00, Rochambeau House 316
FREN 200, Section
Justin Gibson received a BA in French from Eastern Kentucky University and an MA in French from Middlebury College. His thesis was a study of the elements of les fêtes louis-quatorziennes and other courtly distractions, and their associations with the assurance of political power. His current interests include the literature and culture of the Early Modern period and regional identity in Early Modern France.
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Office hours: TBD
FREN 400, Section
Yuri Kondratiev holds an MA in French Literature from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. His interests include Early Modern science, literature and esthetics. |
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Office hours: Monday 1:30-2:30, Thursday 11:00-12:00, Rochambeau House 316
FREN 200, Section
Rebecca Krasner received a BA in French Language and Literature from Boston University in 2009. Her current areas of interest include 20th century and contemporary literature and cinema, questions of adaptation and translation, and the notion of authorship.
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Office hours: Monday 2:00-3:00, Wednesday 10:30-11:30, Rochambeau House 316
FREN 620, Section 1
Sylvain Montalbano holds a Maitrise in English Literature and Culture (2005) and a Maitrise in French Literature(2006) from the Université Lyon II, as well as an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon (2008). His interests include: 20th an 21th century French and Francophone literature, 17th century French literature and theoretical texts, literary and queer theory, and to a lesser extent global cinema. He is currently investigating new subjectivity configurations in the "postmodern" novel.
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Office hours: Monday, 11:00-1:00, Rochambeau House 320
FREN 200, Section
Christopher Robison received his BA in Comparative Literature and French from the University of Rochester in 2009. His principal interests include the philosophy and fiction of the 17th and 18th centuries, early modern theories of language, and Franco-Russian literary interactions from the Enlightenment onwards.
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Office hours: Thursday 2:00-4:00, Rochambeau House 320
FREN 200, Section
Anne-Gabrielle Roussel received her M.A. in Modern literature from université Rennes 2, France, in 2011. Her dissertation was entitled 'L'insignifiance du désir. Perversion, imaginaire et sentimentalité dans trois ouvrages de Roland Barthes". Her current interests include gender / sexuality studies, 19th and 20th centuries philosophy, political theory, and discourse analysis.
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Office hours: Tuesday3:00-4:00, Friday 12:30-1:30, Rochmabeau House 316
FREN 200, Section
Jack Sieber received his B.A. in Media & Public Communication from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne in 2009. His current research interests include Francophone Cinema, the intersections between literature and film, and the question of the 'other' in 20th and 21st century French literature.
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Valentine Balguerie received a Master's degree in Translation Studies (Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle 2008) as well as an MA in French literature from the University of Illinois in Chicago (2009). Her current interests are seventeenth century literature (and especially fairy tales), medieval literature, and early science fiction. She's especially intrigued by the idea of "character" at any given time, the rhetoric of gift, and the notion of humanity.
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Sarah Bernthal received her B.A. in French studies from Pomona College in 2005, where she focused on women's autobiographical writing, and her M.A. in French literature from New York University in Paris in 2006. Her interests include the relationship between law and literature, and the philosophical novel.
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Clint Bruce studies the Francophone Atlantic world of the 19th century (France-Haiti-Louisiana). He has also published articles and presented papers on the contemporary Acadian literature of the Canadian Maritime provinces. Clint serves on the editorial board of the Editions Tintamarre [http://www.centenary.edu/editions/index.html], a Louisiana French publishing initiative. |
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Timothy Freiermuth received his B.A. in Philosophy and French from Boston University and his M.A. in French Literature from Middlebury College/University of Paris III. His interests revolve around the intersection of literature and religion in the Early Modern period, that is, how the history of religious ideas and practices both shapes and is shaped by literature. He is currently writing his dissertation on the influence of mystical theology on 17th-century literature. Parallel interests include: the history of French spirituality; silence, ineffability and languages of "unsaying;" early 20th-century literature; and the recent theological turn in Continental philosophy. |
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Anne-Caroline Sieffert received her B.A. and MA in History from Université de Strasbourg, France. Her final thesis was entitled : "Thérèse Bentzon (1840-1907): Itinéraires d'une Française aux Etats-Unis". She then moved to Syracuse, NY where she received her MA in French from Syracuse University. Her final dissertation was entitled: "L'altérité et le silence: rhétorique de l'oppression dans la littérature française." She is interested in the question of the other (women, immigrants...), and in the links between literature and pop culture.
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Sonja Stojanovic holds a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007) and a Master's degree in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Notre-Dame, IN (2010). She just spent a year teaching English in Rennes, France. Her current research interests include novels written during/about the French Revolution, the writing of silence and literary theory. |
