French and Francophone Studies

Grad Students

Grad Students

  • Elise Bouley

    Licence in Lettres Modernes, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2016, Master 1 in Lettres Modernes, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2017, M.A in French Studies, North Carolina State University, 2019
    elise_bouley@brown.edu
    Research Interests Decadent literature, fashion and clothing, Nineteenth-century material culture, intersections between pain and beauty, color theory.

  • Sophie Brunau-Zaragoza

    Licence in English, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, 2013, Master 1 in English, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, 2014, M.A. in French, Michigan State University, 2016
    sophie_brunau@brown.edu
    Research Interests 20th-21st centuries French and Francophone literature and culture, Ecocritcism and Environmental Activism, Intersections of Ecology and Decolonialism, Materialism and Policital Theory , Cultural studies

  • 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

  • Katherine Clark

    B.S. in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016
    katherine_clark1@brown.edu
    Research Interests 20th- and 21st-century literature, Autobiography, Psychoanalysis, Film, Intersection of literary and visual works

  • 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

  • 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

  • Gillian South

    B.A. in French, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2021
    gillian_south@brown.edu
    Research Interests Medieval literature, 20th-century literature, Performing and visual arts, Gender studies, Feminism

  • Rose Taury

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

  • Haley Wakelam

    B.A. in French Language, Literature and Culture, Miami University Oxford, 2019., M.A. in French Langauge, Literature and Culture, University of Oregon, 2023.
    Research Interests "Contemporary media, gender, and discard studies, notably notions of ""trash.""

  • Laurin Williams

    B.A. in French, Boston University, 2014
    mary_williams@brown.edu
    Research Interests 20th- and 21st-century literature, Francophone literature, Ecocriticism, Film, Literary theory