FACULTY IN FRENCH

Robert Barsky (Ph.D. McGill), Professor of French and Comparative Literature; literature and culture; radical literature and theory; language theory; immigration. Director, Graduate Studies in French. email

Lisa Blomquist (Ph.D. Rice), Senior Lecturer in French. email

Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller (Ph.D. Emory), Associate Professor of French. 20th century French literature and culture; Jewish studies; feminist theory. email

Nathalie Dieu-Porter (D.E.A. Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium), Principal Senior Lecturer in French. Coordinator for Business French and Medical French CCIP. email

Alexis Finet (Ph.D. Florida State University), Assistant Professor of the Practice. Francophone Central and West African literature & cultures, Amazonian cultures, Second language acquisition and teaching, Translation studies, Sound practice, Music pedagogy, and Music Performance. French language program director email

Susan Kevra (Ph.D. U. of Massachusetts), Principal Senior Lecturer in French and American Studies. Québécois literature and culture, Comparative Literature, and French travel writing.  email

Paul B. Miller (Ph.D. Emory), Associate Professor of French, specializing in Caribbean Studies.  Comparative approaches to Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean literature.  Writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Marie Chauvet, and Maryse Condé.  email

Anthère Nzabatsinda (Ph.D. Montréal), Associate Professor of French. Francophone literature; linguistics and literature. email

Rebecca Peterson (M.Ed. Vanderbilt), Lecturer in French. email

Lynn Ramey (Ph.D. Harvard), Professor of French and Cinema and Media Arts.  Medieval and Renaissance French literature and culture. Digital Humanities. French film and filmic representations of history. Department Chair. email

Raisa Rexer (Ph.D. Yale), Assistant Professor of French. Dean’s Faculty Fellow in French. 19th Century French Literature and Culture; Early History of Photography. Director, Undergraduate Studies in French  email

Honorine Rouiller (Ph.D Florida State), Senior Lecturer in French. Comics, French and Francophone Literature and Culture.

Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (Ph.D. Brown), Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French. 18th- and 19th-century literature and culture, Jazz Age, Black Diaspora Women Writers. Vice Provost. email

Holly Tucker (Ph.D. Wisconsin), Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities, Professor of French. Early-modern medicine, literature, gender; 17th-century cultural studies. Director, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.  email