Graduate Students

Robyn Banton : North African literature, specifically women writers, and
questions of nationality, subjectivity, expression and the body

Jenny Davis Barnett : 16th- and 17th-century aesthetics and visual culture including emblem books, theatre and painting

Sharon Carlson : 20th-century autobiography, French philosophy, and trauma theory

Abbey Carrico : representations of adultery in 19th-century French literature

Kathryn Deal : 19th-century French literature

Erica Dotson : technology-assisted learning and second language pedagogy

Thomas Dupuis

Amin Erfani : 20th- and 21st-century French theater, continental critical theory, and French psychoanalytic theory

Noëlle Giguere

Naïma Hachad

Marilène Haroux : 19th-century, 20th-century and contemporary French literature with a focus on the novel, journals, and correspondence; Romain Rolland; French thought and history of French thought; Psychoanalysis; questions of memory, transmission, war trauma, autobiography, history and fiction

Julia House : 19th- and 20th-century French literature, modern society and visual culture, history and narrative, the contemporary murder novel, crime and post-modernism, Francophone literature and film, photography

Anna Igou

Michael Kazanjian : 17th- and 18th-century French literature, painting and aesthetics

Margaret Keneman 

Souad Kherbi

Audrey Magré

Lovia Mondesir : the question of representation in 19th-century French literature, sex and gender identity in Francophone literature

Séverine Piot

Starra Priestaf : 16th- and 17th-century French literature, psychoanalysis, and trauma studies

Andrew Scott Pyle

Nicolas Rémy

Gehane Shehata : the intersection of philosophy and literature; the question of the father and the problematic of the ideal and the real in 19th and 20th century literature.                          

Lauren Upadhyay : 20th-century French literature, narratology, Alain Robbe-Grillet and the Nouveau Roman, Marguerite Duras, textual genetics, l’Oulipo

Meredith Wall : 18th -19th century French novels, utopian fiction and incest narratives, representation of social and familial space, the Garden of Eden as foundational myth, Rousseau and his tradition, Psychoanalytic theory.

William Wallace

Gina Westbeld Gallois

Mariesa Whitaker

Eva Yampolsky

Directors of Graduate Studies

Director of Graduate Studies in French
Claire Nouvet

Director of Joint Doctoral Program in French and Educational Studies
Carol Herron Lustig

Graduate Program Administrator: Leslie Hartness, 404-727-6431