Francophone Studies

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Francophone Studies examines the cultures and literatures of the French-speaking countries and regions of Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, and the Americas.  Research in the department includes study of the Medieval and Renaissance periods of France and the Mediterranean world through the cultural movements of the 17th-19th centuries, to modern and contemporary literature, film, and performance, with focuses on philology, poetics, translation, visual culture, Islam, and French, Caribbean, and West African cultural production. 

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Rachel Gabara Named Brinning Professor

Professor Rachel Gabara has been named the first Nancy Gillespie Brinning Professor in French.  The Department of Romance Languages is delighted to congratulate Professor Gabara and to celebrate Mrs. Brinning's legacy.

Personnel

Maureen DeNino

Maureen DeNino

Assistant Professor of French

Nineteenth-century studies; press and literature studies; print culture; history of colonialism; Pacific history and literature

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Rachel Gabara

Nancy Gillespie Brinning Professor in French

Twentieth and twenty-first century literature, film, and theory in French; African cinema; documentary film; postcolonial studies.

Jonathan Haddad

Jonathan Haddad

Assistant Professor of French

17th and 18th century French literature, French encounters with the Islamicate world, Mediterranean Studies. 

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Lukas Ovrom

Assistant Professor of French

Old French literature; manuscript studies and textual criticism; reception studies; history of the novel; history of the French language 

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Jan Pendergrass

Professor of French

Specialization in Renaissance humanism, humanist pedagogy, epistolography and paleography. Current research project: Claude Dodieu: Lettres et papiers (working title).

Emily Sahakian

Emily Sahakian

Associate Professor of French

French and Francophone literatures and culture, theatre studies and community-based theatre, Francophone Caribbean women writers.

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