Ph.D. Program in French Studies
Current Students
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License in Lettres Modernes, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2016 Research interests: Nineteenth-century French thought and culture; construction of female sexuality and madness; contemporary fashion; fashion and dance theory; identity and spaces; the intersections between pain and beauty. |
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Licence in English, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, 2013. Research interests: 21st century French society, political and social theory, radicalism, cultural studies, feminism and gender studies, ecocriticism and environmental activism. |
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VICTORIA CHEFF B.A. in French Studies, Colby College, 2018.
M.A. in French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, 2020.
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century literature, poetry, constructions of lesbian desire, queer studies, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition.
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B.A. in French, St. Olaf College, 2010. Research interests: 16th-century French literature and society, female writers and narrative strategies, the Querelle des femmes, and “social media” of the Renaissance. |
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B.S. in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016. Research interests: 20th and 21st century literature, autobiography, psychoanalysis, film, and the cross-fertilization between literary and visual works of art |
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ABIGAIL CULPEPPER B.A. in French and Linguistics, Miami University, 2019. M.A. in French, Miami University, 2019. Research interests: 19th and 20th century literature, especially poetry; critical theory; environmental humanities and posthumanism; feminist approaches to psychoanalysis; literary ethics. |
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B.A. in French, Washington Lee University, 2014. Research interests: 19th century decadent literature and medical history, Eastern European literatures, 19th century intellectual history, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis |
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CHANELLE DUPUIS B.A. in French and Spanish, Florida State University, 2020. Research interests: 19th and 20th century French and Francophone literature, smell studies, the senses, perception, trauma studies, gender studies, French women writers, Québécois literature |
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HAYLEY JAYSON B.A. in French and Economics, Boston College, 2015.
M.A. in French, University of South Florida, 2018.
Research interests: 17th-century French literature and culture, especially theater; literature and the arts; feminism and gender studies; foreign language pedagogy |
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JESSE MARIE KERUSKIN B.A. in French, Washington and Jefferson College, 2018 M.A. in French Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020 Research Interests : Sixteenth-century French lyric poetry, La Pléiade & L’École de Lyon, astronomy & astrology, meteorology, cartography & navigation, cosmography, History of Science, Early Modern mechanics, the Copernican Revolution, geocriticism, intersections of science, aesthetics and philosophy |
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B.A. in French, Rutgers University, 2009. Research interests: The representation and manipulation of body and language in the works of Sade, Laclos and Sorel; the question of nostalgia in Caribbean novels; the representation of the Haitian Revolution in post-colonial narratives |
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Diplôme avancé d'études françaises, Université Rennes II, 2007. |
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B.A. in French and Philosophy, Boston College, 2014. Research interests:
Enlightenment literature and philosophy, encyclopedias and dictionaries, intellectual history, digital humanities, film.
Dissertation in progress: "System and Knowledge in the Encyclopédie" |
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B.A. in French, Boston University, 2014. Research interests: 20th and 21st century French and francophone literature; ecocriticism; cinema; literary and cultural theory |
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