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2007-2008 French and Francophone Studies Graduate Students

ABD Students | Ph.D. Students | M.A. Students

	Rumia Ableeva
	Claudia Gotea Claudia is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature. In her dissertation titled "Cocteau entre deux guerres: Le Potomak, Les Eugènes de la guerre et La Fin du Potomak" she aims to re-evaluate Jean Cocteau's early works with respect to the modernist canon as well as to the inter-war political context. Her research interests include the cultural, intellectual, and artistic history of the 20th century, with a focus on the emergence of popular culture and the politics and ethics of the first half of the century. The theoretical issues that inform her research are text-image relationships as well as the dynamic tensions between modernism and modernity and modernism and the avant-garde. She loves traveling to France, where she spends time in libraries, bookstores and museums, and attending theatre and opera shows.
	Christian Hommel
	Jessica Hutchings
	Elizabeth Kinne Elizabeth joined the program in 2001, after a B.A. from Nazareth College of Rochester, for both her M.A. and Ph.D. A dual degree candidate in both French and Women's Studies, her research interests include French and English medieval literature. She is looking forward to writing her dissertation exploring the relationships between the fabliaux and medieval conduct literature after her comprehensive exams in September 2006. Her most recent study abroad experience was on the Strasbourg exchange program with Penn State.
	Amruta Kulkarni
	Noah McLaughlin Noah McLaughlin is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Literature specialization. His research interests include cinema, poetry and a focus on the 20th century. After spending the 2004-2005 year in Lyon, he is currently researching his dissertation, entitled Strategies of the French War Film. He earned his BA at James Madison University and MA at the University of Pittsburgh. A native of Reno, NV, Noah enjoys songwriting and D&D in his free time.
	Jeannette Miller Jeannette is a Ph.D. candidate in Civilization. Her research interests include the French colonial empire and its decolonization, immigrants from former colonies and their descendants living in France, and Fifth Republic French politics. She is spending the 2007-2008 academic year in France (the Aix-en-Provence area, Strasbourg, Perpignan, and Paris) conducting research for her dissertation, The French State’s Policies toward the Harkis from the End of the Algerian War to the Present: Shifts, Stagnations, and Contradictions. She earned her BA from the University of Virginia and her MA from New York University's Institute of French Studies. In her free time, she enjoys playing and watching tennis, listening to all kinds of music, watching foreign films, and visiting friends all over the US and the globe.
	Fleur Prade Fleur is in her sixth year at Penn State working on her dissertation. Her research interests are contemporary France since 1980 and French politics concentrated in the Fifth Republic. She has presented papers on the Parity Law in France and the Feminization of Professional Titles in French. She also loves working on non-literary translations. She was born in Paris, France but grew up in Sarasota, Florida. She completed her B.A. at the University of Delaware and her M.A. at Middlebury College.
	Stephanie M. Roulon Stéphanie is a student in the Department of French and Francophone Studies, with a concentration in Applied Linguistics. A French native, she holds a maitrise in law from the Université de Paris-ASSAS as well as a MA degree in foreign language and literature and a graduate certificate in translation from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. At Wisconsin, she taught several French classes in the Department of French. She also worked as a translator in a Chicago-based company for three years. Her interests are in SLA and sociolinguistics.
	Amanda Shoaf Amanda came to Penn State in 2000 from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where she had completed a B.A. in the Literary and Cultural Studies program. She is currently working on her dissertation, which focuses on parks created within Paris from 1977 to 2001, particularly on how these parks both influence and serve as reflections of French urban design theory. Her research interests also include contemporary French architecture and art. She loves spending time in France, most recently in Paris for research but also as a lectrice d’anglais at the Université de Lyon II- Lumière in 2002-03, and in Montpellier (1998-99). At Penn State, she has taught French 1, 2, 3, and 201, and co-taught (with Kory Olson) FR 137, "Paris, Anatomy of a City," one of the department’s general education courses. She enjoys traveling in the U.S. and in Europe, especially to see various museums, exhibitions, and moving sidewalks. In State College, she goes hiking, running, and biking when the weather is good, and enjoys reading novels, taking photos, drawing, and watching movies all year ‘round.
	Rachel I. Williams Rachel is in her 4rd year of the PhD Literature program at Penn State, studying 19th century literature and concentrating on women writers and translation studies. She received her BA in Anthropology at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa in 2002 and her MA in Comparative Literature in 2004 at Binghamton University through the Translation Research and Instruction Program/Center for Research in Translation, where she also received a certificate in literary and non-literary translation and worked as a translator and administrator at the Translation Referral Service. She will (hopefully) be spending the 2007-2008 academic year in Lyon, teaching and doing research.