French and Francophone Studies
Graduate Students
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Andrew Clark
B.A. in Physics and French, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018, M.A. in French, Boston College, 20223rd Floor Graduate Student Cluster, Rochambeau Rm 316Research Interests 19th and 20th-century prose and poetry, literary theory, political subjectivityOffice Hours Monday and Thursday 2 - 3pm -
Abigail Culpepper
B.A. in French and Linguistics, Miami University, 2019, M.A. in French, Miami University, 2019Rm. 317 Rochambeau HouseResearch Interests 19th, 20th, & 21st Century French and Francophone Literature, Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Women's Writing, Literary Criticism, Environmental humanities -
Yiming Hu
B.A. in French, Philosophy and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022; M.A. in French, Boston College, 2025Research 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, 2017Research Interests 16th-century French literature and society, Feminism, Querelle des femmes, “Social media” of the Renaissance -
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), ParisResearch Interests Oral literature, Postcolonial theory, History of French anthropology, Afro-Arab studies, Philosophy of aesthetics, Political ecology -
Rose Taury
3rd Floor Graduate Student Cluster, Rochambeau Rm 316
Research Interests Questions relating to ecology and Caribbean poetryOffice Hours M 12-1 pm & Friday 12-1 pm