Graduate
Alumni
Gabriella Baika
Instructor (French and Italian), Auburn University
E-mail: gbaika@yahoo.com
Research interests: Romance languages and literatures (Early modern period).
Dissertation title: "Lingua indisciplinata: A Study of the Sins of the Tongue in the Romance of the Rose and the Divine Comedy.”
Dolores Buttry
Assistant Professor (German), University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown
E-mail: djb59@pitt.edu
Didier Course
Professor of French, Hood College
E-mail: dcourse@hood.edu
Melissa Deininger
Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
Dissertation title: "After the Revolution: Terror, Literature, and the Nation in Modern France"
Dissertation Director: Giuseppina Mecchia
Susan Dudash
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Medieval Studies 2008-09
Assistant Professor of French, Fordham University
E-mail: sjdudash@yahoo.com
Dissertation Title: "Giving Voice to the People: Rhetoric, History, and Literary Representations of Social Conflict in the Late Middle Ages"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Robert Fagley
Dissertation title: "Bachelors, Bastards and Nomadic Masculinity: a study of illegitimacy in Maupassant and Gide"
Teresa Johnson-Evans
Dissertation title: "History, Genre, Politics: The Cinema of Yamina Benguigui"
Laurence Grove
Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
E-mail: L.Grove@french.arts.gla.ac.uk
Djehane Hassouna
E-mail: dahst27@pitt.edu
Dissertation title: “The Echo of Solitude in the Romantic Representations of the Sea: Multivalence of a Motif in Romance Literatures”
Dissertation director: Dr. Giuseppina Mecchia and Dr. Yves Citton
Alison Halasz
Instructor, University of Pittsburgh
E-mail: alisonvort@hotmail.com or alv19@pitt.edu
Web page: www.alisonhalasz.com
Dissertation title: "Henri Michaux, poet-painter"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Roberta Hatcher and Dr. Daniel Russell
Nacer Khelouz
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
E-mail: khelouznacer@umkc.edu
Dissertation title: "Le roman algérien de langue française de l’entre-deux guerres à l’épreuve du politique : en lisant Robert Randau et Abdelkader Hadj Hamou"
Dissertation director: Dr. Philip Watts
Aparna Nayak-Guercio
Assistant Professor of French, California State University, Long Beach
E-mail: anayakgu@csulb.edu
Dissertation title: “The project of Liberation and the projection of national identity. Calvo, Aragon, Jouhandeau, 1944-1945”
Dissertation director: Dr. Philip Watts
Noemie Parrat
Assistant Instructor, Florida State University
E-mail: nparrat@mailer.fsu.edu
Dissertation title: Zola’s Woman as Unnatural Animal
Dissertation Director: Dr. Giuseppina Mecchia
Pamela Pears
Associate Professor of French; Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, Washington College
E-mail: ppears2@washcoll.edu
Dissertation title: "Women’s Words: Postcolonial Francophone Literature in Viet Nam and Algeria"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Philip Watts
Amy Reinsel
Visiting Lecturer,
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
E-mail: areinsel@iupui.edu
Dissertation title: "Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects in the 19th Century Haiti"
Dissertation Director: Giuseppina Mecchia
Linda Rouillard
Assistant Professor, University of Toledo
E-mail: linda.rouillard@utoledo.edu
Mark Sanford
Associate Dean of Graduate & Continuing Studies
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, Muskingum College
E-mail: msanford@muskingum.edu
James Tarpley
Assistant Professor of French, Florida State University
E-mail: jtarpley@mailer.fsu.edu
Dissertation title: "The Algerian Island in the Novels of Albert Camus: The End of the Pied-Noir Adventure Tale"
Dissertation director: Dr. Philip Watts
Rajeshwari Vallury
Assistant Professor of French, The University of New Mexico
E-mail: rvallury@unm.edu
Book title:
University of Toronto Press: “‘Surfacing’ the Politics of Desire: Literature, Feminism and Myth.”