French and Francophone Studies

Graduate Students

  • Cheff Portrait

    Victoria Cheff

    B.A. in French Studies, Colby College, 2018, M.A. in French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, 2020
    3rd Floor Graduate Student Cluster, Rochambeau Rm 316
    Research Interests 19th- and 20th-century literature, Poetry, Queer studies, Sociolinguistics, Second language acquisition
    Office Hours M/W 11am - 12pm and by appointment
  • Andrew Patrick Clark

    Andrew Clark

    B.A. in Physics and French, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018, M.A. in French, Boston College, 2022
    3rd Floor Graduate Student Cluster, Rochambeau Rm 316
    Research Interests 19th and 20th-century prose and poetry, literary theory, political subjectivity
    Office Hours Monday and Thursday 2 - 3pm
  • Abigail Culpepper

    Abigail Culpepper

    B.A. in French and Linguistics, Miami University, 2019, M.A. in French, Miami University, 2019
    Rm. 317 Rochambeau House
    Research Interests 19th, 20th, & 21st Century French and Francophone Literature, Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Women's Writing, Literary Criticism, Environmental humanities
  • Dupuis Portrait

    Chanelle Dupuis

    B.A. in French and Spanish, Florida State University, 2020
    3rd Floor Graduate Student Cluster, Rochambeau Rm 316
    Research Interests 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Literature, Sense studies, Smell Studies, Perfume culture, Environmental humanities, Québécois literature
    Office Hours M/Th 4-5 pm
  • Yiming

    Yiming Hu

    B.A. in French, Philosophy and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    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

    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
    Research Interests 16th-century French literature and society, Feminism, Querelle des femmes, “Social media” of the Renaissance
  • Jessica Lovett

    Jessica Lovett

    B.A. in French & Comparative Literature, Fordham University, 2021
    Research Interests Early modern literature and culture, Salonnières, épistolières, femmes de lettres, French feminism, Questions of solitude, female/sapphic sexuality, the body, and fatness
    Office Hours Monday 12:30-1:30pm, Thursday 2:30-3:30pm
  • smyej

    Sofia Smyej

    Research Interests Oral literature, Postcolonial theory, History of French anthropology, Afro-Arab studies, Philosophy of aesthetics, Political ecology
  • Taury Portrait

    Rose Taury

    Research Interests Questions relating to ecology and Caribbean poetry
  • Wakelam Portrait

    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.""