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Joshua Blaylock (Joshua_Blaylock@brown.edu) received his BA in 2002 with a double major in French and History from the University of Montana. He then received an MA from UM in French in 2005. In 2002, Joshua taught as a Lecteur at the University of Burgundy. He is primarily interested in the 16th and 17th Centuries and the intersections between literature, history, and literary theory. He is currently working on silence and its various manifestations in the literature of the Early Modern.
Clint Bruce (Michael_Bruce@brown.edu) graduated from Centenary College of Louisiana in 2001 with a BA in French and a BA in Latin. Before coming to Brown in 2003, a Fulbright grant allowed him to spend a year in Moncton, New Brunswick, where he studied contemporary Francophone writers of the Canadian Maritimes. His primary area of interest is the French-language literature of 19th-century Louisiana, and he presently serves on the editorial board of the Editions Tintamarre (http://www.centenary.edu/editions/index.html). In addition, he has co-authored a Cajun French Dictionary and Phrasebook (Hippocrene Books, 2002). Current projects include an edition of animal tales in Louisiana Creole and a web site of his research on Acadian literature.
Kathryn Chenoweth (Kathryn_Chenoweth@brown.edu) is in her fourth year at Brown, after receiving her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2002. Her primary interests are foreignness, translation, and linguistic issues of various sorts. She studies 20th century and medieval texts, with a focus on the writings of non-native speakers of French. She is currently working on an English translation of a novel by Greek author Vassilis Alexakis.
Allison Fong (Allison_Fong@brown.edu) 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 / Denis Diderot. Her research interests include concepts of movement and space, questions of identity and “ l'entre-deux ” , theories and practices of writing and translation.
Timothy Freiermuth (Timothy_Freiermuth@brown.edu) 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.
Brittney Kondratiev (Brittney_Kondratiev@brown.edu)
Yuri Kondratiev (Yuri_Kondratiev@brown.edu)
Sharon Larson (Sharon_Larson@brown.edu) received her BA in 2001 from Smith College in both French Literature and Women's Studies. Her interests are based on integration of feminist and queer readings into 19th century texts. She is currently a co-editor of the feminist on-line journal thirdspace (http://www.thirdspace.ca).
Caroline Laurent (Caroline_Laurent@brown.edu) received her BA in Comparative Literature and History & Social Sciences from the American University of Paris (France) in 2004. She then worked and traveled for a year before completing a MPhil in European Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge - Christ's College (UK) in 2006. She took another year off and worked at the OECD in the Employment, Labor, and Social Affairs Directorate. She is now completing a PhD in French Studies at Brown and her main interests are: 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, trauma, genocide, and (post)colonialism.
Nicolas L'hermitte (Nicolas_Lhermitte@brown.edu)
Maria Moreno (Maria_Moreno@brown.edu) graduated from the Universidad de Los Andes (Merida, Venezuela) with a BA in Modern Languages and Literatures (1998). Prior to coming to Brown in 2004, she received an MA in French Literature and Pedagogy from the University of Arizona (2003). While in Tucson, she taught beginner through advanced French language courses. She spent the summer of 2004 teaching advanced French in Paris as part of the Arizona in Paris program. Her research interests include 20th century French and Francophone literature, with a particular emphasis on Caribbean Francophone novels.
Prior to coming to Brown in 1999, Adele Parker (Adele_Parker@brown.edu) received an MA in Comparative Literature and a Certificate in Translation from SUNY Binghamton (1997), where she was awarded Most Promising Translator. She has translated short texts by Etienne Balibar and Helene Cixous. She spent the academic year 2000-01 in Dijon, teaching English at the Universite de Bourgogne. Adele took her BA at UC Berkeley with a double concentration in French and in Women's Studies (1990). In 2002, she was the first Helena Rubenstein Intern at differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Her research interests include 20th century literature and film, feminist theories, and translation studies and her dissertation treats contemporary French and Francophone poetry.
Pauline De Tholozany (Pauline_DeTholozany@brown.edu) received a maîtrise (2002) and a DEA (2003) in Anglophone Studies from the Université Paris 4 (La Sorbonne). Her thesis dealt with English travelers to Naples in the 18th century, and the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Before coming to Brown in 2005, she spent two years teaching French at Bard College, NY.
Shahrzad Zahedi (Shahrzad_Zahedi@brown.edu)
Bryan Zandberg (Bryan_Zandberg@brown.edu)
Heidi Brevik (Heidi_Brevik@brown.edu) received her BA in French Culture from UC Berkeley (1995), and a Master's Degree in French Studies from Brown University (2002). She is Senior Teaching Assistant at Brown's Department of French Studies where she has taught a variety of French language courses. Heidi's research interests include gender studies, theories of consumption, and cultural history, with a particular emphasis on Paris in the 19th century. She is currently working on a dissertation that treats popular literature in France's Third Republic, in which she examines relationships between gender and commercialized fiction in mass-circulating Parisian newspapers and magazines.
Meadow Dibble-Dieng (Meadow_Dibble-Dieng@brown.edu) began her graduate studies at Brown in 2000. Her research interests include French and Francophone literary journals, cultural politics, creative non-fiction, "La Francophonie" and African literature, art and cinema. She received her B.A. from Colby College ('95) in English, French and Fiction and was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow from '95-'96. She is author of the site "Literature and Culture of Francophone Africa and the Diaspora" (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/francophone/) and co-founder of the Dakar-based journal Orange light, which she edited from '95-'00. Meadow has taught French at various levels for Brown's Department of French Studies, as well as for the Brown Learning Community and Brown Summer Studies. She has been a staff member at the Writing Center since 2000.
Claudia Esposito (Claudia_Esposito@brown.edu) began her graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she received her MA ('00) in French and Francophone literatures with a concentration on Translation Studies. While in Amherst she taught Italian and worked for the Translation Center. At Brown she has taught French language and literature courses. Her research interests include North African literature and politics, Arabic literature, immigrant literature in France and Italy, Postcolonial Studies, late 19th century theater.
They said Jean-François Fournier (Jean-Francois_Fournier@brown.edu) was first educated in France. It seems it was there that his interest for political matters developed. He graduated from Institut d'Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence in 1995 with majors in political philosophy and political sociology. After that he joined the contingent of students at Université de Paris IV-La Sorbonne. The writing of a thesis on the Cosmology of Leibniz certainly played a big role in the achievement of the M.A. in Philosophy in 1997. It is not well-known why Jean-François eventually decided to start a PhD. at Brown University. But this is not the right place to speculate about these kinds of reasons. Last time I saw him, he was writing a dissertation on Laughter in literary works by Baudelaire, Bataille, Beckett, and Ionesco. They also mentioned that his research interests included comical discourses and laughter in literature and visual art; interactions between philosophy and literature; WWII literature and cinema; literature and the sacred. In spite of their propensity to spread innuendos about people, I can confirm this to be true after talking to Jean-François.