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           Graduate Students:  

 

Blainey

Darcie Blainey received her BA and MA from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.  She is an Interdisciplinary PhD student in her third year at Tulane University under the supervision of Thomas Klingler.  Her research interests include French phonetics and phonology, variation, language death and Louisiana Regional French.

 

 

 

nicolas

Nicolas Dubois is an exchange Masters student in Urban Planning at the Sorbonne University in Paris. He is currently a teaching assistant for French 102 and, with David Belaga, he is in charge of the "Pause-café"  and the French film screenings.

 

 

 

wilson

Wilson Goss received his undergraduate degree from Tulane in French and English (concentration: Creative Writing) in 2009. He is interested in many areas of French Studies, from Linguistics to the theater of Molière and Racine, as well as Twentieth century masters such as Camus and Prévert, but his main interest lies in the literature of formerly colonized countries where he is fascinated by the search for identity in decolonized and destabilized cultures.

 


 

 

 

 

stump

Jason Stumpis very interested in post-colonial literature and the treatment of the French language in former French colonies.  His current research interests include a cinematographic study of the Bataille d'Alger as well as anti-semitic and racist trends in Sub Saharan literature in the cases of Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi and Yambo Ouologuem.  

 

 

 

vendula

Vendula Vlasakova I obtained my secondary high school degree in Nimes France. Afterwards, I accomplished my undergraduate studies in the University of Charles
the IVth in Prague where I graduated in French and Italian. At the UNO, I accomplished an M.A. in romance languages. Right now, I am working on a Ph.D. in French. My area of concentration is the French political thought and the XXth century.

 


 

voltz

Whitney Voltz is a doctoral candidate in French. Her research focuses on the nineteenth century French fantastic, with a concentration on mourning work, trauma, and the therapeutic capacity of the macabre narrative. She teaches first year French and is known for using plastic rats and unconventional sound effects to enhance the classroom experience. Voltz has also published several fantastic short stories and poems and took first place in the 2008 World Horror storytelling competition. 

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