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The Department of French and Francophone Studies
Graduate Handbook

Graduate Faculty

The list below includes graduate faculty members at University Park. It is in the interest of graduate students to make contact with all faculty members whose field coincides with their own area of study. For more detailed information on each faculty member, consult the main Faculty page.

J.-Marc Authier, Associate Professor of French and Applied Linguistics (Southern California): Grammatical theory and French linguistics.

Jennifer Boittin, Assistant Professor of French, Francophone Studies, History and Josephine Berry Weiss Early Career Professor in the Humanities (Yale): Contemporary French Civilization; French Colonial; Immigration.

Barbara E. Bullock, Professor of French and Linguistics (Delaware): Theoretical linguistics; language contact and change; bilingualism.

Christine Clark-Evans, Associate Professor of French and Women's Studies (Bryn Mawr): 16th-century French poetry and rhetoric; 18th-century French literature; Diderot studies.

Meredith C. Doran, Assistant Professor of French and Applied Linguistics (Cornell University): French and applied linguistics.

Kathryn M. Grossman, Professor of French (Yale): 19th-century French literature and novel; utopian studies; Hugo studies.

Thomas A. Hale, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of African, French, and Comparative Literature (Rochester): Franco-African and Caribbean literatures and cultures; oral literature.

Celeste Kinginger, Associate Professor of French and Applied Linguistics (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Foreign language acquisition, applied linguistics, and teacher education.

Norris J. Lacy, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies (Indiana): Medieval French literature; Arthurian studies; 12th- and 13th-century romance.

Christiane P. Makward, Emerita Professor of French (Sorbonne): 20th-century French literature; contemporary criticism; francophone women's studies.

Vera Mark, Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics (Texas-Austin): French civilization; French anthropology and folklore; regional languages and cultures; cultural studies.

Heather McCoy, Lecturer of French (Brown): Second Language Acquisition and Cinema; 20th- century French culture.

Bénédicte Monicat, Associate Professor of French and Women's Studies (Maryland): 19th-century French literature; travel literature; women's studies.

Monique Oyallon, Adjunct Assistant Professor of French (Sorbonne): French and Franco-American civilization.

Lisa A. Reed, Associate Professor of French and Linguistics (Ottawa): Syntax; semantics; Canadian French.

Willa Z. Silverman, Associate Professor of French and Jewish Studies (NYU): 19th- and 20th-century French culture, society, and politics; history and literature; French women writers 1870-1914.

Allan Stoekl, Professor of French and Comparative Literature (SUNY-Buffalo): 20th-century French literature; French film; Literary Theory; Modern and Contemporary French Intellectual History.

Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Professor of French (Michigan State): 17th-Century French Literature and Philosophy; Post-structuralism and Reception theories; Baroque Aesthetics; Semiotics of Drama and Theater Theory; Intellectual History.

Monique Yaari, Associate Professor of French (Cincinnati): 20th-century French literature and culture; interarts discourse; semiotics; irony.

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The Department of French and Francophone Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
231 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814.865.1492 | Fax: 814.863.1103

Undergraduate Officer
Heather McCoy
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Department Head
Bénédicte Monicat
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Graduate Officer
Barbara E. Bullock
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