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Nina Hellerstein

I was born in New York City and received my education there and in Providence, R.I. and Chicago, Il. I taught at Baruch College of CUNY, Vassar College, Roosevelt University and Rosary College before joining the Romance Languages faculty at UGA in 1978. I taught French language, literature and culture there until my retirement in 2011; I also directed the UGA in Avignon program in 2002 and served as Head of Romance Languages from 2008-2011.


Mia Cocco

Dr. Mia Cocco earned her Ph.D. in French at the University of California, Riverside, her M. A. in French at the University of Southern California and her B.A. With Honor at California State University, Los Angeles.  She taught at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, before coming to UGA.   Her research focuses on Italian and French Renaissance literature; Italian lyric poetry, especially Petrarch and Poliziano.  She is…


Joel C. Walz

Joel Walz (B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.A., Ph.D. Indiana University) taught in the Department from 1977 to 2004. He offered courses in the French language, linguistics, and pedagogy. He supervised the graduate teaching assistants in French for 17 years and served as Associate Head for three. He gave talks nationally and internationally and published articles and books on the French language and language teaching. He was…


Sandrine Zawacki

Sandrine Zawacki is a Lecturer of French. She received a master’s degree in political science and sociology from the University of Paris IX-Dauphine in 2004. She moved to the United States in 2006 to teach at the University of Georgia. She enjoys sharing her native language and her culture with her students. She is currently writing her dissertation to earn a Ph.D. in Sociology through the University of Paris-Gustave Eiffel. Her research…


Fuad Elhage

Dancing with the Athens Stars 2018 Fuad Elhage is currently a Lecturer of Spanish for the Professions at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, from which he also earned his PhD in education. He was raised speaking in Arabic, French, and Spanish as the context of home, school, and country shifted during different phases of his life and he now uses language and dance to keep the connections to his…


Emily Sahakian

Dr. Emily Sahakian (Ph.D., Northwestern University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) teaches French and Francophone literatures and culture and advanced French in the Department of Romance Languages and is the faculty liaison for a partnership between UGA and the University of the Antilles in Martinique. She is jointly appointed with Theatre & Film Studies, where she teaches theatre studies and community-based…


Diana L. Ranson

        Diana L. Ranson specializes in historical linguistics and language variation and change of the Romance languages. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Yale University (1977) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics from the University of Michigan (1981, 1986). Her 1989 book, Change and Compensation:  Parallel Weakening of /s/ in Italian, French and Spanish, compares the weakening…


Jan Pendergrass

Jan Pendergrass specializes in Renaissance humanism, humanist pedagogy, epistolography and paleography. He received a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Munich in 1981 and a doctorate from the University François-Rabelais (Tours, France) in 1987. He has published editions and commentaries of the neo-Latin correspondence of Antoine Arlier (Droz, 1990) and Jean de Pins (Droz, 2007) and is co-author of Images et lieux de mémoire d…


Jonathan Krell

Before retiring in January 2021, I taught Business French and 20th- and 21st-century French literature. My current research interests are in the contemporary French novel and its relationship to ecology. Previous research centered on myth criticism, especially in the light of the fiction and essays of Michel Tournier. I am the author of Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics: A Humanist Reading of Recent French Ecofiction (Liverpool UP, 2020), The Ogre…


Catherine Jones

Dr. Catherine M. Jones received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of The Noble Merchant: Problems of Genre and Lineage in Hervis de Mes (North Carolina, 1993), Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of Prose Translation (Boydell & Brewer, 2008), and An Introduction to the "Chansons de Geste" (University Press of Florida, 2014). She is the co-translator of An Old French Trilogy: Texts from the William of Orange…
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