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Graduate Students and Teaching Staff

Teaching Spring 2012

	VALENTINE BALGUERIE FREN 0400 - section 1 Office hours: Wednesday 12:00-1:00, Rochambeau House Room 316 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.
	JOSHUA BLAYLOCK FREN 0400 - section 3 Office hours: Monday 11:00-12:00 & Wednesday 2:15-3:15, Rochambeau House Room 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.
	SARAH BERNTHAL FREN 0200 - section 3 Office hours: Wednesday 11:00-1:00, Rockefeller Library 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.
	SHANNON BRAGG FREN 0200 - section 5 Office hours: TBA, Rochambeau House Room 316 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.
	SÉBASTIEN DOMINGUEZ-LLACER FREN 0600 - sections 1 & 3 Office hours: Monday 1:00-2:00 & Friday 10:00-11:00, Rochambeau House Room 320 Sébastien Dominguez-Llacer received a Bachelor's degree in Applied Foreign Languages (English, German and Italian - 2008) and a Master's degree in American Studies from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (2011). Currently working on a PhD thesis, he studies theTranscendentalist philosophy and its political as well as social implications. He is notably interested in individualism through a political and philosophical approach with writters such as Emerson. He is highly intrigued by the French-inspired utopian outburst of 19th American philosophy.
	AUDREY DOUSSOT FREN 0600 - section 2 & 4 Office hours: Monday 12:00-1:00 & Wednesday 11:00-12:00, Rochambeau House Room 320 Audrey Doussot received her PhD from the University of Burgundy, Dijon, in English studies. 19th century literature and image/text relationships. She wrote her PhD thesis on the notions of femininity and masculinity in illustrated Victorian fairy tales. Her interests include semiotics, image analysis (especially when in relation with text), narratology and the construction of social and artistic representations of gender.
	CHRISTINE LIETZ FREN 0200 - section 2 Office hours: TBA, Rochambeau House Room 316 Christine Lietz received her B.A. in French studies from Trinity University in 2009 where she wrote her senior thesis on representations of the father in classical comedies. Her current research interests include seventeenth century theater, postcolonial literature, and intersections of art and literature.
	VIOLAINE MORIN FREN 0500 - sections 2 & 3 Office hours: Monday & Wednesday 10:00-11:00 , Rochambeau House Room 316
	ANNE-CAROLINE SIEFFERT FREN 1150, TA Office hours: TBA, Rochambeau House Room 316 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.
	SONJA STOJANOVIC FREN 0200 - section 6 Office hours: Monday 1:00-2:00 & 3:30-4:30, Brown Bookstore 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.
	BRYAN ZANDBERG FREN 0200 - section 4 Office hours: TBA, Rochambeau House Rm 316 Bryan Zandberg hails from the University of British Columbia, where he received a BA in French and Spanish. His current interests include (but are not limited to!) links between rhetoric and literature, the transposition (and transformation) of Greek and Roman ethics in France, and the intersection of literature and affect.

Research and Non-Teaching Duties Spring 2012

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	MICHAEL CLINTON BRUCE 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.
	TIMOTHY FREIERMUTH FREN 0100 - section 6 Office hours: Thursday 11:00-1:00, Rochambeau House Room 316 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.
	JUSTIN GIBSON 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.
	YURI KONDRATIEV Teaching in Lyon, France 2011-2012 Yuri Kondratiev holds an MA in French Literature from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. His interests include Early Modern science, literature and esthetics.
	REBECCA KRASNER 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.
	JARED MCKEE Jared McKee graduated from Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA in 2010 with a BA in Philosophy and French. He spent two summers (2009 and 2010) studying French intensively at Middlebury Language School in Vermont. From September 2010 to May 2011, he lived in France and worked for seven months as an assistant English teacher in the small rural town of Mayenne in the Bretagne region. His research interests concern literature from the 18th and 19th centuries with attention to the background of the Enlightenment as a shaping force for early Romantic writers. Among his other interests are intellectual history, literary theory, 20th century continental philosophy, and hermeneutics.
	SYLVAIN MONTALBANO 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.
	CHRISTOPHER ROBISON 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.
	ANNE-GABRIELLE ROUSSEL 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.
	JACK SIEBER 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.