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Graduate Students and Teaching Staff

Teaching Fall 2009

	SARAH BERNTHAL FREN 0100 Office hours: Monday 12:00-2:00, Rochambeau House 316 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.
	JOSHUA BLAYLOCK FREN 0500 Office hours: Monday 2:00-3:00 & by appointment, Rochambeau House 316 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.
	MICHAEL CLINTON BRUCE FREN 0300 Office hours: Tuesday 10:30-11:30 & Thursday 2:00-3:00, Rochambeau House 316 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.
	ALLISON FONG FREN 0500 Office hour: Monday 2:00-3:00, Rochambeau House 316 Allison Fong received her B.A. in French from the University of Michigan (1999) where she also earned secondary education teaching certification. Before coming to Brown in 2003, she spent two years in Paris earning a master's degree in French Cultural Studies through Columbia University and a DEA from the Université Paris 7. She is currently preparing a dissertation on errance in 20th-century literature.
	TIMOTHY FEIERMUTH FREN 0600 Office hours: Tuesday 12:00-2:00, Rochambeau House 316 Timothy Feiermuth received his B.A. in Philosophy and French Literature from Boston University in 1997. After having worked in the "real" world for a few years, he went on to earn his M.A. in French Literature from Middlebury College/University of Paris III where he focused on the 20th century novel and worked specifically on the problem of narration in Raymond Radiguet's Le Diable au corps. Tim's interests include the history of the novel, narratology, and the interaction of religion and literature.
	YURI KONDRATIEV FREN 0400 Office hours: Monday 1:00-2:00, Rochambeau House 316
	MARINE LAURENT FREN 0500 Office hours: Monday 4:00-5:00 & Friday 12:-1:00, Rochambeau House 320 401-863-3130 Marine Larent grew up in Auvergne and after two years of Classe préparatoire littéraire, joined Lyon II University where she received a BA in 2007 and a Master's Degree in 2009. She majored in English and wrote her final dissertation on "African Americans in the New Hollywood Cinema". Her main interests are French and American cinemas.
	CLAIRE MENARD FREN 0600 Office hours: Monday 1:30-3:30 & Wednesday 12:15-1:15, Rochambeau House 320 401-863-3130
	SYLVAIN MONTALBANO FREN 0100 Office hours: Tuesday 3:00-5:00, Rochambeau House 316 Sylvain 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.

Research and Non-Teaching Duties

	VALENTINE BALGUERIE 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, early science fiction, and the inner workings of autobiography.
	PAULINE DE THOLOZANY Pauline de Tholozany received a Masters in English Studies from the University of Paris IV la Sorbonne in 2003, and a Masters in French Studies at Brown University in 2008. She is currently working on her dissertation, which deals with perceptions of clumsiness in XVIIIth and XIXth century philosophy and literature. Her interests include XVIIIth and XIXth century French novels, and their rendering of social customs and rules of civility. Her work also touches on everyday life studies, and on nineteenth and twentieth century popular fictions.
	ANNE-CAROLINE SIEFFERT Anne-Caroline Sieffert received her B.A. and MA in History from Université de Strasbourg, France. Her final dissertation 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.
	BRYAN ZANDBERG Teaching in Dijon, France 2009-2010