French and Francophone Studies

Grad Students

Grad Students

  • Victoria Cheff

    B.A. in French Studies, Colby College, 2018, M.A. in French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, 2020
    victoria_cheff@brown.edu
    Research Interests 19th- and 20th-century literature, Poetry, Queer studies, Sociolinguistics, Second language acquisition

  • Andrew Clark

    B.A. in Physics and French, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018, M.A. in French, Boston College, 2022
    andrew_p_clark@brown.edu
    Research Interests 19th and 20th-century prose and poetry, literary theory, political subjectivity

  • Abigail Culpepper

    B.A. in French and Linguistics, Miami University, 2019, M.A. in French, Miami University, 2019
    abigail_culpepper@brown.edu
    Research Interests 19th, 20th, & 21st Century French and Francophone Literature, Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Women's Writing, Literary Criticism, Environmental humanities

  • Chanelle Dupuis

    B.A. in French and Spanish, Florida State University, 2020
    chanelle_dupuis@brown.edu
    Research Interests 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Literature, Sense studies, Smell Studies, Perfume culture, Environmental humanities, Québécois literature

  • Yiming Hu

    B.A. in French, Philosophy and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022; M.A. in French, Boston College, 2025
    yiming_hu@brown.edu
    Research Interests intersection between philosophy and literature on the question of reading and the idea of truth in fiction, 20th century theories and literature, the relationship between Western ideas and Chinese culture

  • Mary Claire Lessard

    B.A. in French, St. Olaf College, 2010, M.A. in French and Francophone language, literature and culture, University of Kansas, 2017
    mary_chao@brown.edu
    Research Interests 16th-century French literature and society, Feminism, Querelle des femmes, “Social media” of the Renaissance

  • Jessica Lovett

    B.A. in French & Comparative Literature, Fordham University, 2021
    jessica_lovett@brown.edu
    Research Interests Early modern literature and culture, Salonnières, épistolières, femmes de lettres, French feminism, Questions of solitude, female/sapphic sexuality, the body, and fatness

  • Sofia Smyej

    Ph.D. Student, B.A. in Political Science and Middle East Studies, Sciences Po Paris, M.A. in Design and Digital Governance, Sciences Po Paris, M.A. in Environmental Studies, EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris
    sofia_smyej@brown.edu
    Research Interests Oral literature, Postcolonial theory, History of French anthropology, Afro-Arab studies, Philosophy of aesthetics, Political ecology

  • Rose Taury

    rose_taury@brown.edu
    Research Interests Questions relating to ecology and Caribbean poetry

  • Haley Wakelam

    B.A. in French and History, Miami University of Ohio, 2019., M.A. in French Langauge, Literature and Culture, University of Oregon, 2023.
    Research Interests Feminism, Women's Writing, Aesthetic theory, Spatial politics, Loneliness, Francophone and Hispanophone intersections