Tags: French


Erin Bolívar

Erín Bolívar is a scholar of Hispanic and Italian Studies and a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia.  Her research focuses on the portrayal of the Virgen Mary in the visual arts and literature in both Spain and Italy primarily during the 15th - 17th centuries, as well as some representations of the 19th and 20th centuries.  As a Marian scholar, she focuses on the connections…


Carine Sigaud

Carine Sigaud is a PhD student in Francophone Studies at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on taking a linguistic approach to study literary texts. She is especially interested in the way authors have represented different categories of underrepresented peoples' speech as well as the sociological and philosophical implications of these stylistic choices. She wrote her masters theses on 19th century post realism, with a particular…


Mélanie Longayrou


Anaïs Jandot

Born and raised in Lyon, France. I have been living in Athens for 3 years. I am a proud cats and dog mom (big up to Memphis, Tupelo and Deirin). Teaching has always been my calling. At 12, I wanted to teach art, at 15, I wanted to teach maths (not even kidding), at 18, I wanted to teach English and today, I happily teach French! I suffer from depression and anxiety dissorders so, mental health is very central to my teaching approach (trauma-…


Raymond Friedman


Timothy Raser

Tim Raser came to UGA in 1985 after a first job at the University of Tulsa; here he teaches lower-level language courses, undergraduate literature surveys, and graduate courses in French.  His research has to do with 19th-century poetics and æsthetics; his most recent book (2015) is titled "Baudelaire and Photography."  His current project concerns Hugo's writings on the death penalty. 


Scott Truesdale

My research highlights the influence of Albert Camus's revolt on Michel Onfray's philosophy. By examining Camus's literary efforts against nihilism during the 20th century, I argue that Onfray perpetuates this same endeavor in the 21st century. I also emphasize Onfray's claim that nihilism has evolved in Western culture since Camus's passing and how this self-destructive movement can be surpassed by choosing to revolt against ideological…


Bénédicte Beall-Lebéhot

Bénédicte Beall-Lebéhot earned her Ph.D in French from Rutgers University in 2018. Her dissertation, entitled ''Trouver sa voi(e)(x) sur grand écran: les acteurs-chanteurs du cinéma français des années 30 aux années 50'', is a study of actor-singers in French cinema from the 30s to the 50s and the entertaining commercial musicals and operettas in which they performed.


Debbie Bell


Emily Rose Kraus

Emily Rose Kraus is a PhD Candidate in the Dept. of Romance Languages and a graduate student in the Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Studies. She has been studying French for 20 years and mainly learned the language by working with a retired scholar who formerly taught French at Oxford. At that time, Emily switched to reading only novels in French in order to maximize her use of it. By age 15, she had read many novels including Victor Hugo…
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