Ph.D. Program in French and Francophone 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. |
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.A. in Physics and French, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018. M.A. in French, Boston College, 2022. Research interests: 20th century literature, literary theory, relationship between literature and philosophy, popular music in fiction |
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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, medical history, Catholic theology, Louisiana literature and Cadien French, literature and history of the American South, Eastern European literatures, 19th century intellectual history, and aesthetics. |
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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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B.A. in French & Comparative Literature, Fordham University, 2021. Research Interests: Solitude in women's writing, 17th-18th century French literature, representations of sapphic desire/intimacy, French feminist thought, psychoanalysis. |
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B.A. in French, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2021.
Research Interests: Medieval literature, 20th century literature and theater, performing arts, visual arts, gender studies, representations of women from the male and female perspectives, courtly love.
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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 |
B.A. in French, University of Texas at Austin, 2017. Research interests: Medieval lyric poetry and music, fin'amor, troubadours, trobairitz, and trouvères.
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