Current Graduate Students


Ph.D. Program in French and Francophone Studies
Current Students

 


ELISE BOULEY

License in Lettres Modernes, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2016
Master 1 in Lettres Modernes, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2017
M.A in French Studies, North Carolina State University, 2019

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.

SOPHIE BRUNAU-ZARAGOZA

Licence in English, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, 2013.
Master 1 in English, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, 2016.
M.A. in French, Michigan State University, 2016.

Research interests:  21st century French society, political and social theory, radicalism, cultural studies, feminism and gender studies, ecocriticism and environmental activism.

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. 

MARY CLAIRE LESSARD

B.A. in French, St. Olaf College, 2010.
M.A. in French and Francophone language, literature and culture, University of Kansas, 2017.

Research interests: 16th-century French literature and society, female writers and narrative strategies, the Querelle des femmes, and “social media” of the Renaissance.

ANDREW PATRICK CLARK

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

KATHERINE CLARK

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

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. 


RYAN ATTICUS DOHERTY

B.A. in French, Washington Lee University, 2014.
B.S. in Biology, 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.

CHANELLE DUPUIS

B.A. in French and Spanish, Florida State University, 2020.

Research interests19th and 20th century French and Francophone literature, smell studies, the senses, perception, trauma studies, gender studies, French women writers, Québécois literature


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. 

GILLIAN SOUTH

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.

 

LAURIN WILLIAMS

B.A. in French, Boston University, 2014.

Research interests:  20th and 21st century French and francophone literature; ecocriticism; cinema; literary and cultural theory

MIA WILLIAMS

B.A. in French, University of Texas at Austin, 2017.

Research interests: Medieval lyric poetry and music, fin'amor, troubadours, trobairitz, and trouvères.