Francophone Studies

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

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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Personnel

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Jonathan Baillehache

Assistant Professor of French

Jonathan Baillehache's research focuses on the ethics of literary translation in the context of literary modernity, Lacanian psychoanalytical theory, and post-colonial politics.

In his recent book, La Traduction de la lettre. Éthique, désir et littéralité dans la pensée d’Antoine Berman et dans l’œuvre traductive de certains poètes…

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Rachel Gabara

Associate Professor of 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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Catherine Jones

Professor of French and Provençal

French Medieval Literature, with a specialization in the Old French epic; medievalism; literature and law.

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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).

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Timothy Raser

Professor of French

French literature, 19th-century poetics and æsthetics.

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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