Monday/Wednesday 4-5 PM; and at a different time by appointment (please email me).
Border studies, immigration in France, 20th and 21st cent. French Literature, French colonial culture, Francophone literature and cinema
Ph. D. – French Studies – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011.
Master's Degree in English Language, Literature and Civilization - Université de Metz, France, 2003.
Selected Publications
Book chapters:
"Accented Mappings of France in a Globalized World: Le Havre (2011) and Samba (2014) Through the Lens of Cinéma-monde." Eds. Michael Gott & Thibaut Schilt. Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French, Edinburgh University Press, 216-236, 2018.
"Filmer les migrants à Calais : une représentation aux frontières de la mémoire et de l'Europe." Eds. Marianne Bessy and Carole Salmon. Racines et déracinements au grand écran: trajectoires migratoires dans le cinéma français du XXIème siècle. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 148-169, 2016.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
"Galadio de Didier Daeninckx et la question de l'identité nationale." Modern & Contemporary France, 23:1, 17-33, 2015.
"Autopsy d'Un Sujet français." Nouvelles Études Francophones, 28:2, 161-176, 2013.
Proceedings:
"La Blessure de Nicolas Klotz, ou la face cachée de la frontière." Eds. Corinne Maury and Philippe Ragel, Filmer les frontières. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes : Paris, 107-118, 2016.
Recent Conference Presentations:
"Hope under the Mud: Looking for a New Form of Society in the Jungle?" 20th/21st French & Francophone Studies Conference, Providence, RI, April 12-14, 2018.
"Les sens au/du travail." International Colloquium on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, April 6-8, 2017.
"Région et nation : la pensée de la terre chez Maurice Barrès au lendemain de la guerre franco-prussienne." 42nd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 27-29, 2016.
"Des camps à la frontière : reconstitution de l'histoire dans No Pasarán d'Henri-François Imbert." 20th-21th Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium 2016, Saint-Louis, MO, March 17-19, 2016.
"Human Rights and the Roma Question in France in Documentary Images." Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences International Conference, CMU, Mt. Pleasant, October 30-31, 2015.
“Challenging the City of Light: Representing Immigrants in Paris.”
Midwest MLA, Detroit, MI, November 13-16, 2014.
“Migrants in Calais: The Power of Documentary Images against Official Discourse.” Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France Annual Conference, Southampton (UK), September 9-11, 2014.
“Commémorer la Grande Guerre en littérature: le cas de 14 (2012) de Jean Echenoz.” 55th Annual Conference of The Society for French Studies, Aberdeen (UK), June 30 – July 2, 2014.
“Illegal Migrants in the North of France: A Humanitarian Crisis and a Crisis of the Humanitarian Discourse.” Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences, Mount Pleasant, November 22-23, 2013.
“La face cachée de la frontière dans La Blessure de Nicolas Klotz” Filmer les frontières. Toulouse (France), April 17th-20th, 2013.
“La figure fragmentée d’un Algérien dans Un sujet français d’Ali Magoudi” 20th-21th Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Atlanta, March 28th -30th, 2013.
“Die Schwarze Schande” (Black Shame) in 2010: Didier Daeninckx’s Galadio and the Redefinition of Borders. 20th-21th Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Long Beach, March 29th -31st, 2012.
“The Representation of Migrants in Calais and the Spectrum of the Algerian War.” Legacy of the Algerian War : Between Memory, History and Representations, Florida International University, Miami, March 22-23, 2012.
Courses taught
- Foreigners in France (20th and 21st Centuries)
- Contemporary French Literature
- Francophone Literatures & Cultures
- French Youth: Finding a Place in the Republic
- French for Business
- Elementary French I
- Elementary French II
- Intermediate French I
- Intermediate French II
- Advanced Composition and Conversation