Graduate Students
Silvia Baage. Is currently working in Nice on research entitled: "Island literature of French expression; Rewriting the French colonial topos of the island".
Julia Burstein obtained a B.A. in both Spanish and French literature and an M.A. in French literature from the University of Oklahoma. She is currently working in Francophone Caribbean literature, particularly that of Guadeloupean women
Erica Cefalo. Nineteenth-century literature.
Khady Diene received an MA in French and American Studies from the University of Kansas. She is currently working on the question of identity in francophone and postcolonial litterature and film.
C.J. Gomolka. Sexual identity in the 19th and 20th centuries and Francophone literature; queer theory; transgender and transsexual theory.
Phuong Hoang. Comparative study of Francophone African and Vietnamese literatures, post-colonial theory, women's issues in Francophone literature.
Anne-Marie Lanz. Eighteenth-century literature; diaries and epistolarity; 16th century; wars of religion.
Marilyn Matar. 20th century and contemporary French literature. Novel and narratives. Machrek Francophone with an interest in war writings.
Priya Nair. Twentieth century French and Francophone Literature and Film. Representations of India, Indian Culture and Mythology in French Literature and Film. Works of French and Francophone authors of Indian origin.
Raluca Romaniuc. Auteurs roumains d'-expression francaise. Trad uction. Littérature 19ème et 20ème siècles.
Cécile Ruel is interested in exploration narratives, travel literature, Kenneth White's geo-poetics, identity in post-colonial literature
Sophie D. Vigeant. Poetics of identity in Beur's fiction (special focus on Nina Bouraoui) - Francophone Literature - Postcolonial Theory - Female Narratives and Autobiographical Voices.