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2007-2008 French and Francophone Studies Graduate Students

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

	Shureka T. Cannon Shureka is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of French and Francophone Studies. Originally from Aurora, Illinois (about 39 miles west of Chicago, one of the far-west suburbs), she attended Truman State University in Missouri, earning a BA in French in 2004. During her sophomore year at Truman, she spent one semester at l'Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers, France. After graduation, she spent one academic year at l'Université de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland. Her area of specialty is linguistics, although she has not decided on a specialization within linguistics yet. During her free time, she enjoys hanging out with friends, watching movies, engaging in conversation, and playing games. She loves to travel and tries to leave the country on vacation as often as her wallet and coursework will allow!
	Amanda J. Dalola Since completing her Master's in French Linguistics at Penn State in 2006, Amanda has been a grad student at large, teaching English at the Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg and reveling in the semi-charmed Alsatian Sprachbünde. A die-hard linguist, her research interests include Scandinavian Languages, Romance Phonology, Lab Phonetics and Historical Linguistics. Hailing from the inland north dialect of upstate New York, she earned her BA in Linguistics and English at Cornell University, where she not only learned the true value of 'merry', 'marry', and 'Mary, but also picked up the dirty habit of laxing front vowels before [l]. In her free time, she enjoys decorating, playing songs on repeat and modeling herself after the Golden Girls. Amanda plans to return to Penn State in Fall '08 to commence her Ph.D. coursework alongside her beloved orange cat, Zazzers.
	Kelley Dey Kelley is a first-year PhD student. Hailing from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, she has a Bachelor’s Degree in Clarinet Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she also minored in French at the University of Rochester. After her music degree, Kelley spent one academic year abroad in Rennes, France, teaching English at l’Université Haute Bretagne de Rennes 2. She decided to extend her stay in France for another academic year abroad, and became a graduate student in Tours, France through Bowling Green State University’s Academic Year Abroad program. The second year of her Master’s Degree was spent at BGSU’s campus in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she was a teaching assistant and wrote a Master’s thesis on the Asian and European cross-cultural identity present in several autobiographical works of the Belgian author Amélie Nothomb. She hopes to combine her two main areas of interest, studying the influences of music on French literature for her doctoral dissertation.
	Luke Eilderts
	Melody P. Flahart
	Zachary Hagins Zac is currently a first-year Ph.D. student in civilization. He earned his B.A. in French, B.S.B.A. in International Economics, and M.A. in French from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. During the 2006-07 academic year, he served as a Lecteur d'anglais at the Université du Maine in Le Mans, France. His research interests include Maghrebian and sub-Saharan literature and culture as well as education and identity issues in immigrant communities in France.
	Deirdre McAnally Deirdre is currently completing coursework for her doctorate in French literature. She has presented papers at various conferences (Queen's College, Belfast; Oxford University; Université de Nancy) on topics related to nineteenth and seventeenth-century literature. She has a forthcoming article on Rotrou's La Belle Alphrède. Her areas of interest are Naturalism and literary theory (narrative, ecocriticism, space, feminist literary theory). Her dissertation topic will likely be centered on Zola and Naturalism. In her spare time, she enjoys taking her cocker spaniel, Lucie, for long walks. She hails from Tennesse, Idaho, Seattle, and Boulder, among other places.
	Patricia A. Siewe
	Ying Wang