French and Francophone Studies
Graduate Students
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Victoria Cheff
B.A. in French Studies, Colby College, 2018, M.A. in French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, 20203rd Floor Graduate Student Cluster, Rochambeau Rm 316Research Interests 19th- and 20th-century literature, Poetry, Queer studies, Sociolinguistics, Second language acquisitionOffice Hours M/W 11am - 12pm and by appointment -
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 -
Chanelle Dupuis
B.A. in French and Spanish, Florida State University, 20203rd Floor Graduate Student Cluster, Rochambeau Rm 316Research Interests 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Literature, Sense studies, Smell Studies, Perfume culture, Environmental humanities, Québécois literatureOffice Hours M/Th 4-5 pm -
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 -
Jessica Lovett
B.A. in French & Comparative Literature, Fordham University, 2021Research Interests Early modern literature and culture, Salonnières, épistolières, femmes de lettres, French feminism, Questions of solitude, female/sapphic sexuality, the body, and fatnessOffice Hours Monday 12:30-1:30pm, Thursday 2:30-3:30pm -
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 11am - 12pm and by appointment -
Haley Wakelam
B.A. in French and History, Miami University of Ohio, 2019., M.A. in French Langauge, Literature and Culture, University of Oregon, 2023.3rd Floor Graduate Cluster, Rochambeau Rm 316Research Interests Feminism, Women's Writing, Aesthetic theory, Spatial politics, Loneliness, Francophone and Hispanophone intersectionsOffice Hours F 11am - 1pm