Recently Defended Dissertations

2024–25

Jacqueline Sarro (Assistant Professor of French at the Defense Language Institute)
Le marché alimentaire parisien: Site of patrimony, pedagogy, and performance
Director: Prof. Felicia McCarren


Anna Cooper (Student Adviser at the University of Edinburgh)
Performance and reception of Le Roi d'Ys in Paris, New Orleans and London 1888 to 1901: A digital humanities approach to the global Francophone community
Director: Prof. Felicia McCarren


2023–24

Juliette Papadopoulos (Coordinator of Student Activities at St. John’s University’s Paris)
Habiter le monde dans le roman africain francophone
Director: Prof. Jean-Godefroy Bidima


Georgia Cristiani (Network Content Lead: English Language Learners, Firstline Schools)
Beyond resilience: Trauma, time, and recovery in post-disaster literature of Haiti and Louisiana (2005 – present)
Director: Prof. Edwige Tamalet Talbayev


2022–23

Sophie Delsaux (Instructor Success Manager at IMMERSE)
Résonances sociopolitiques de l’occulte: De la littérature du dix-neuvieme siècle aux médias contemporains
Director: Prof. Vaheed Ramazani


Jacyln Maraldo (Education Curator at Carlyle House Historic Park)
From francophone frontier to melting pot metropolis: Discovering expressions of French-Canadian and Métis identity in the Detroit River region
Director: Prof. Thomas Klingler


Kaitlin Sager (Head French Teacher at St. Mary's Dominican High School)
Embodied temporalities: Illness, reproduction, and chronobiopolitics in Medieval France
Director: Prof. Jonathan Morton


2021–22

Sophie Capmartin (Executive Director of Academics, Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans)
Dissonant Sauvages: Representations of Louisiana Indians in French Cultural Productions of the First 18th Century (1683-1753)
Director: Prof. Fayçal Falaky


Adèle Cenier
In-between: The hybrid women of materialist and sensationist eighteenth-century France
Director: Prof. Fayçal Falaky


Ryan Joyce (Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies at Ohio State University)
Maroon Utopias, Queer Utopias: Flights to Freedom in Circum-Caribbean Writing
Director: Prof. Jean-Godefroy Bidima


2020–21

Emily Hathaway (French Teacher at Henrico County Public Schools)
The Pursuit of Pleasure: Representations of Quadroons in Louisiana Literature of Americanization
Director: Prof. Felicia McCarren


Nicole Horne (French Teacher at New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts-NOCCA)
Disorienting Francophone Literature: Iranian Migrant Writing and Maghrebi Literature in French
Director: Prof. Edwige Tamalet Talbayev


2018–19

Leslie Anderson (Senior Manager of Grants and Community Development at the Frazier History Museum)
Erotic Tresses: Hair and Power in Medieval French Narrative.
Director: Prof. Elizabeth Poe


Heather Frost (French Teacher & Sophomore Class Dean at Santa Catalina School)
Radyo an Kreyol: Decolonial Projects on Haitian Radio.
Director: Prof. Tom Klingler


Erika Mandarino (Assistant Editor at Brill Publishers)
The Interplanetary Voyage of the French Enlightenment.
Directors: Fayçal Falaky


2016–17

Tamara Bentley Caudill (Associate Professor of French at Jacksonville University)
Issi avint cum dit vus ai: The Old French Narrative Lay in Context.
Director: Prof. Elizabeth Poe


Annie Doucet (Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas)
The Language of the Heart in Troubadour Poetry
Director: Prof. Elizabeth Poe


Carole Trévise (Lecturer at Princeton University)
De L’anthropologie À La Littérature : Le Schème Sacrificiel Dans L’oeuvre Romanesque De Bazalc Et Barbey D’aurevilly
Directors: Prof. Jean-Godefroy Bidima and Prof. Pierre Glaudes (Paris-Sorbonne)


2015–16

Alison Chanslor (French Teacher at Isidore Newman School)
Gastro-media: Media and French Gastronomy
Director: Prof. Felicia Mccarren


2014–15

Elsa Stéphan (Lecturer at Columbia University)
Techno-Utopias: Utopian and Virtual Spaces in the Literature of the Machine Age
Director: Prof. Jean-Godefroy Bidima


Nathan Rabalais (Joseph P. Montiel Endowed Professor of Francophone Studies at University of Louisiana Lafayette)
Contes Rendus: Sources and Development of Louisiana’s French and Creole Oral Tradition
Director: Prof. Elizabeth Poe

Cheyma Ben Hassine, Tulane University
PhD Student
Research Interests: The interplay between culture and politics, with a focus on the representation of minorities in postcolonial contexts.
Payton Brown, Tulane University
PhD Student
Research Interests: Occultism, folklore, and fan cultures. French and Francophone philosophy and cultural history.
Chenise Calhoun, Tulane University
PhD Student
Research Interests: Links between North African and West African literature, transnational feminism, the African Diaspora, and migration.
Lylia Djoudi Tulane University
PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Postcolonial French literature, gender in modern North African writing, and ethnopsychiatry among France's immigrant popul...
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PhD Student
Sylvette Dupé-Vété-Congolo, Tulane University
PhD Student
Research Interests: Francophone Black Atlantic culture, literature, and women’s experience.
Christine Eveker, Tulane University
PhD Student
Research Interests: French cinema, the work of Agnès Varda, feminism, ecofeminism and ecocriticism.
Emilie Hautemont, Tulane University
PhD Student
Research Interests: Queerness in contemporary North African writing, new media and artivism in the Maghreb, Francophone li...
Cécile Lebleu, French & Italian, Tulane University
Instructor
Research Interests: Francophone literature, feminism and identity, migrant literature, translation, teaching pedagogy
Carolina McPhail, Tulane University
PhD Student
Research Interests: 20th century French literature and thought, Marguerite Duras, French cinema, Film theory, Queer theory, Ecocriticism, Psyc...
Felix Okpokpa, Tulane University
PhD student
Research Interests: Afro-Carribean Literature, French Linguistics
Grace Riordan, Tulane University
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: The intersection between archival research and postcolonial theory.
Arielle Sawyer, Tulane University
PhD Student
Research Interests: Works of French-Caribbean women authors of the post-colonial era. Black women in African American and French-Caribbean rep…
No image for Mathias Schwab. Tulane University School of Liberal Arts
PhD Student
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics in postcolonial contexts, Education and equal opportunity, Teaching and assessment of oral skills.
No image for Olivia Simard. Tulane University School of Liberal Arts
PhD Student
No image for Tasnim Tirkawi. Tulane University School of Liberal Arts
PhD Student
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies, 20th century comparative literature