Faculty and Staff

 

Name                                             Email                                 Office                      Phone
Benedicte Mauguière                 Benedicte.Mauguière    Lovejoy 316           859-4660
Department Chair
Professor of French
Areas of Expertise: Quebec Studies, Francophone Studies of the Americas, Diaspora & Transcultural Studies, Indian Ocean Cultures & Literatures, Women and Gender Studies, JMG Le Clézio
Audrey Brunetaux                      abruneta                           Lovejoy 315         859-4664
Assistant Professor of French
Areas of Expertise: 20th Century French Literature and Culture,  Holocaust Literature, France in World War II, Visual arts and the Shoah, Autobiography and Memoirs, Women’s Studies
Valerie M. Dionne                      vmdionne                        Lovejoy 313            859-4659
Assistant Professor of French
Areas of Expertise: Early Modern French Literature & Philosophy, Literature and Ethics, Political conciliation
Arthur D. Greenspan                   adgreens                       Lovejoy 309            859-4654
Professor of French and Italian
Areas of Expertise: Translation of literature, French cinema and the 20th-century French novel, France in World War II
Brendan W. Hennessey             bwhennes                    Lovejoy 306
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
James C. Kriesel                           jkriesel                        Lovejoy 310              859-4666
Assistant Professor of Italian
Areas of Expertise: medieval-Renaisssance culture, and my particular interests include Dante, Boccaccio, Renaissance Neoplatonism, and the History of the Italian Language.
Aurore Mroz                               apmroz                          Lovejoy 308              859-4663
Assistant Professor of French
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Language education, Second Language acquisition, French linguistics, French phonetics, Pedagogy of inter-culturality, Multimedia in foreign language acquisition, Critical Thinking and language acquisition
Mouhamedoul Amine Niang     maniang                         Lovejoy 306             859-4661
Assistant Professor of French
Areas of Expertise: Francophone Literature and Cinema, Nationalism, Occultism and Postcolonial Theory, Body, Space and the Detective Novel, African Studies and African Philosophy
Adrianna M. Paliyenko             Adrianna.Paliyenko          Lovejoy 312               859-4656
Charles A. Dana Professor of French
Areas of Expertise: 19th- and 20th-century French poetry, including women’s contributions, Literary history and the poetics of influence, Gender and genius, Theories of creativity, Literature and medicine, Feminism and psychoanalysis, 19th-century Francophone Studies
Assia Zizza                                   azziza                          Lovejoy 354
Language Assistant in Italian
Aurore Spiers                             aspiers                        Lovejoy 354
Language Assistant in French
Jonathan M. Weiss                    jmweiss                                                              859-4657
Director of the Dijon Program
Areas of Expertise: 20th-century French literature and literary history French theater, French civilization, Contemporary France, Literature and culture of Québec