RUMIA ABLEEVA
Personal Web Page | rxa180@psu.edu

BRANDY BROWN
Personal Web Page | bnb134@psu.edu

Brandy is a first-year Master's student in literature. Her specialization is medieval literature, especially twelfth- and thirteenth-century courtly romance. Her research interests include late antique through high medieval history and literature in France and England, women's religious history, and the grail romances. She completed her B.A. in French and medieval studies at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro and studied abroad in Tours, France. She plans to complete her M.A. in spring 2009 and then begin pursuing her Ph.D. at Penn State.

LAURA CALL
lmk266@psu.edu

Laura is a second-year Master's student in French Linguistics on the M.A./Ph.D track. She is interested in Applied Linguistics and Second-Language Acquisition. She previously earned a B.A. in environmental sciences at the University of Virginia in 2003 and a B.A. in French from Clemson University in 2006.

SHUREKA CANNON
stc139@psu.edu

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
ajd266@psu.edu

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.

SYLVAIN DAVID
sad292@psu.edu

Sylvain is a first-year Master's student in civilization. He graduated from Université de Nantes with a degree in history. He also earned an M.A. in early modern/modern history from the Université de Nantes. While completing his M.A., he served as a French teaching assistant and assistant coach for the men's soccer team at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His research interests include urbanism, sport (soccer), and culture.

KELLEY DEY
kmd330@psu.edu

Kelley is a first-year Ph.D. 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 L. EILDERTS
Personal Web Page | lle117@psu.edu

MELODY P. FLAHART
mpf159@psu.edu

CLAUDIA GOTEA
Personal Web Page | cxp408@psu.edu

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.

ZACHARY R. HAGINS
Personal Web Page | zrh106@psu.edu

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, teaching conversation courses to English majors and an English grammar course for non-English majors. His research interests include Maghrebian and sub-Saharan literature and culture as well as education and identity issues in immigrant communities in France.

CHRISTIAN HOMMEL
czh115@psu.edu

JESSICA HUTCHINGS
Personal Web Page | jjh267@psu.edu

SOPHIA KRADRAOUI
sgk124@psu.edu

Sophia is a first-year Master's student in Francophone studies on the M.A./Ph.D track. She earned an M.A. in American Civilization with a specialization in African-American History from La Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris III. The past two years she also served as a French teaching assistant at Susquehanna University and Bucknell University. Her research interests include identity and race issues in Caribbean literature. She enjoys travelling around the world and is fond of photography.

ELIZABETH KINNE
elk148@psu.edu

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
ask167@psu.edu

DEIRDRE MCANALLY
Personal Web Page | dmm443@psu.edu

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.

NOAH MCLAUGHLIN
Personal Web Page | njm148@psu.edu

Noah 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
jem395@psu.edu

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.

SCOT MOYER
sgm137@psu.edu

PIPER MULLINS
pfm120@psu.edu

FLEUR PRADE
Personal Web Page | fap116@psu.edu

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 ROULON
smr335@psu.edu

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.

DANA M. SCHULTE
dms561@psu.edu

Dana Schulte is a Master's candidate in the French and Francophone Department and the Women's Studies Department. She is currently enjoying a year abroad as a lectrice in Montpellier, France. Her academic interests include Francophone literature, modern French history, feminist theory, and the rhetoric of nationalism. She spends her free time reading the new master's list, discovering how to cook, and visiting really old monuments in southern France.

NATHAN D. SEBOLD
nds157@psu.edu

AMANDA SHOAF
Personal Web Page | aas195@psu.edu

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.

PATRICIA A. SIEWE
pus136@psu.edu

SANDRINE SIMEON
sps211@psu.edu

Sandrine is a first-year Master's student. Born in France, she completed her undergraduate studies at La Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and earned a Master's degree in cinema from Concordia University in Montréal. Endeavoring to experience the film industry first hand, she played different roles behind the camera on several features. Her research interests include French cinema.

YING WANG
yzw115@psu.edu

RACHEL I. WILLIAMS
sps211@psu.edu

Rachel is in her 4th year of the Ph.D. 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 is spending the 2007-08 academic year in Lyon, teaching and doing research.