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Listing of Current Students
John Antosca
B.A., History, Columbia University
Licence, Maîtrise et DEA, Histoire, Université de Paris IV, la Sorbonne.
Area of Specialization: The French Revolution
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John spent ten years in Paris where he worked as a history teacher in a bilingual school and an adjunct professor in English at l’ESSEC and le CNAM. He went on to teach four more years in Rome before taking a teaching job in Rockville Centre, NY. |
Chandra Balkaran
B.A., French, SUNY at Stonybrook
M.A., French, SUNY at Stonybrook
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Viral Bhatt
B.A., French, Drew University
Area of Specialization:
Francophone literature, African film, and Women's Studies
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| Viral Bhatt is a 3rd year doctoral student currently finishing her coursework and preparing her specialization review. She earned her B.A. (Hons) in French from Drew University, where she wrote her senior thesis, Une étude du passé colonial de la France à travers quelques films contemporains with a special focus and sensibility to the female director’s lens. Viral has presented a paper on the allegorical function of the woman in contemporary Senegalese film at the conference "Locating Empire: Seduction, Domination, and Revolt in the French Cultural Reach" at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is currently teaching French at Brooklyn College. |
Alicia Bralove
B.A., French, Emory University
M.A., French, Hunter College
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Angèle Branca
Maîtrise de Lettres Classiques, Université de Haute-Bretagne, Rennes, France
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Christina D. Buehler
B.A., French, St. Anslem College
M.A., French, Middlebury College
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| Christina is a doctoral candidate preparing to write her dissertation on Mme. d'Aulnoy and other women fairy tale writers of 17th and 18th century France. She has been teaching French and Latin at St. Anthony's High School on Long Island since 1994. In addition to teaching full time, Christina was promoted to Director of Public Relations in 2007. Aside from her academic and administrative responsibilities at St. Anthony's, Christina has been involved in numerous extracurricular activities including choreographing the spring musicals and coaching Varsity Kickline. She has chaperoned a dozen pilgrimages to Europe for over one hundred choral and orchestra performers. She is currently the advisor for the school's yearbook. |
Chadia Samadi Chambers
Licence de Lettres Modernes Université Stendhal Grenoble III, France
Licence des Arts du Spectacle Université Stendhal Grenoble III, France
Master's of Arts in European Comparative Literary Studies, University of Kent,Canterbury , U.K.
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I am a first year doctoral student and a fellow at the Center for the Humanities. I am French from Morrocan descent. I lived in the U.K and moved to New York in 2004. After working in the field of International Education at a non-profit organization, I decided to go back and complete my doctoral studies at the Graduate Center. |
Deirdre Ellen Cutting
B.A., French and Psychology, St. John Fisher College
M. Phil., French, CUNY Graduate Center
Areas of Specialization: French cinema, European Union studies |
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Paula S. DelBonis-Platt
B.S., Journalism, Boston University
M.A., French, University of Montana
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Claudy Delné
B.A., Histoire, Université de Montréal
M.ED, Université de Montréal
L.L.B., Université de Moncton
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Né à Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Claudy Delné a fait ses études primaires à l'École Nationale Colbert Lochard et études secondaires au Lycée Anténor Firmin. Il a commencé ses études universitaires à l'École Normale Supérieure en Haiti (1988-1990). Au Québec depuis 1990, il a obtenu tour à tour un baccalauréat en enseignement de l'histoire et une maïtrise en Éducation à l'Université de Montréal. Il a obtenu également un baccalauréat en droit (L.L.B) de l'Université de Moncton (New-Brunswick, Canada) en 2000. Il a été admis au Barreau de l'Ontario (Canada) en 2002. Il a publié son premier ouvrage sur la didactique de l'enseignement de l'histoire qui s'intitule: "L'enseignement de l'histoire nationale en Haiti: état des lieux et perspectives" aux Éditions du CIDIHCA en 2001. Cette recherche lui a valu une mention spéciale en sciences sociales et humaines au concours des jeunes chercheurs parrainé conjointement par la Faculté des Études Supérieures et de la Recherche de l'Université de Moncton et l'ACFAS-Acadie (Association canadienne française pour l'avancement de la science), Mai 2000.
Il enseigne depuis 2003 le français au secondaire à NJ et à titre d'adjunct-teacher (chargé de cours) à Kean et Montclair State University. Il est candidat au doctorat au programme d'études françaises au Graduate Centre depuis 2005. Il s'intéresse particulièrement aux questions d'altérité, de représentations, de la race en littérature. Son projet de thèse portera sur l'évolution de la représentation de la Révolution haitienne dans les textes narratifs des écrivains français du dix-neuvième siècle.
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Pierre Castro Desroches
B.A., French, Brooklyn College
M.A., French, Brooklyn College
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Lauren Donaldson
B.A., French Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Area of Specialization: 19th century French literature
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I earned my undergraduate degree in French with a minor in European Area Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I have a strong interest in 19th century literature, especially Emile Zola, and I wrote my undergraduate thesis on alcohol as aesthetic and anaesthetic in "L'assommoir", by Zola, and "Le vin", by Baudelaire. I have a strong interest in food and wine which has inspired me to study cuisine as it relates to national identity in France through the works of Curnonsky during my first year here at the Graduate Center. I will begin teaching French at Brooklyn College in fall 2008. |
Aglaé Dufresne
Degree earned: Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes,
Université de Paris III
Area of Specialization: Film
Languages: French, Spanish
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| Aglaé Dufresne is a third year doctoral student and is currently preparing for her specialization review. She is also in the Film Studies Certificate Program. She received a Maîtrise in Modern French Literature from Paris III in 2001. She also studied theater and performed in Paris and Avignon. She directed an award winning short film in 2003. She is currently teaching French at Lehman College. |
Katherine Galvagni
B.A., French, College of Charleston
M.A., Education, Wake Forest University
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Adria Gettle
B.A., French, Montclair State University
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| Gorica is a 6th-year student and is currently at the dissertation writing stage. Her main interest is in the contribution of French artists to the late 19th and early 20th century Parisian avant-garde theater. She has presented papers on Zola and Proust. Gorica also translated a website that features some of the most prominent French artists working today. ( http://www.empreintes-fr.com/) . She is also the recipient of the CUNY Graduate Research Grant for 2007-2008. |
Benjamin Hamilton
B.A., French, University of Georgia
M.A., French, Hunter College
M. Phil., French, CUNY Graduate Center
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Sara Hanaburgh
B.A., French, University of Massachusetts- Amherst
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Desmond Hosford
B.M., Harpsichord Performance, Manhattan School of Music
M. Phil., Musicology, City University of New York
Ph. D., Musicology, City University of New York |
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Desmond Hosford earned his Ph.D. in musicology at the City University of New York and specializes in 17th- and 18th-century tragedy, tragédie en musique, the sociology of the Bourbon court of France, animal rights, and early modern gender and sexuality. He is also an active harpsichordist.
Desmond’s publications include: Fortune & Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France (1553-1715) (ed. with Charles Wrightington, forthcoming), French Orientalism: Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other (ed. with Chong Wojtkowski, forthcoming), “Reigning Women, Crushed Women: Duty, Glory, and Suicide in the Tragedies of Philippe Quinault” (Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle, ed. Buford Norman, 2006), “The Queen’s Hair: Marie-Antoinette, Politics, and DNA” (Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2004), and the articles “Marie-Antoinette,” “Opera,” and “Queering Royalty” in The Gale Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas, 2007). He has directed performances of 17th- and 18th-century vocal and instrumental music with his period instruments ensemble, La Musique de la Reine, including a full production of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide. Desmond also directed and performed in the American premiere of Jean Racine’s Bajazet, a full production featuring 17th-century tragic gesture, staging, costume, and music. Desmond is an adjunct lecturer in French at Hunter College and an editor at the Repertoire International de Littérature Musicale.
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Lynn Karam
B.A., French, Montclair State University
M.A., French, Montclair State University
Languages: English, French and Arabic
Areas of Specialization: Middle Eastern Studies, Lebanese Women Writers
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| Lynn Karam is a 6th year doctoral student and is currently at the dissertation proposal stage in her research. She was born in Beirut, Lebanon and came to the States at the age of 12, hence her interest in Middle Eastern Literature, Music and Dance. She has completed some work in translation, which included the supervision of an Independent Study for a student completing her MA in Liberal Studies at the Graduate Center of CUNY. For this project, she edited translations from Arabic to English of a collection of poems by Saudi journalist and poet, Hani Naqshabandi. In addition, she collaborated on the translation from French to English of a collection of interviews with film director Arthur Penn for a book to be published in 2008 by Sticking Place Books. Lynn presented a paper on Orientalism in 17th Century French literature focusing on Madame de Villedieu’s Mémoires du Sérail sous Amurat II. This paper has been approved for publishing. Lynn is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Montclair State University. Most recently, Lynn began taking belly dance lessons with Gia Al Qamar in Wayne and Nutley, NJ. |
Walter Sean Kelly
B.A., French, Sarah Lawrence College
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Wednesday Knudsen
B.A., Drama, University of Washington
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Jacquelyn Libby
B.A., French, Sussex University, England
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| Jacquelyn Libby earned her BA (Hons) degree in French and European Studies from the University of Sussex at Brighton, England. She spent the third year of her undergraduate studies working as an English language assistant near Bayonne in the Basque country. After finishing her degree, Jacquelyn moved back to France and continued her work teaching English in a variety of schools in Paris. Jacquelyn then moved south to Barcelona, where she spent four years working as a coordinator, translator and language teacher for a communications company. Jacquelyn is in the third year of her PhD at the Graduate Center and is currently teaching French at Queens College. |
Rebecca M. Linz
B.A., French and English, Albion College M.A., French, Michigan State University
Languages: English and French
Areas of Specialization: Literature of Quebec, 20th-century French Literature and Queer Theory, Women's Studies.
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| Rebecca is a 5th-year doctoral student and is currently preparing her dissertation proposal focusing on the role of the mother in several novels of Quebec. She also earned a Certificate in Women's Studies at the Graduate Center. She has taught at Queens College, St. John's University, Fordham University, and Manhattan School of Music. In addition, she currently serves as a Writing Fellow at Queensborough Community College. Rebecca has presented papers on Monique Wittig and on sexual texts of Early Modern France. |
Ruth Lipman
B.A., English, SUNY at Stony Brook
M.L.S., Library Science, Pratt Institute
M.A., Education and Reading, New York University
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Dana Loev
B.A. Psychology, Loyola University, New Orleans
M.A. French Literature, Hunter College
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Sophie Marinez
B.A., Translation, APEC University, Dominican Republic
M.A., Liberal Studies, SUNY Empire State College
Languages: French, Spanish and Portuguese
Areas of Specialization: Gender theory; space, architecture, and utopias in the writings of early modern women in France
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| A former translator and journalist, Sophie has also done research in Dominican-American and Haitian studies. She taught French for several years at Hunter College, and is currently a Writing Fellow at Lehman College. |
Hiroshi Matsui
B.A., Liberal Arts, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
M.A., Comparative Culture, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
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Marie-Jasmine Narcisse
B.A., Pharmacy, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Certificat en Linguistique, Centre de Linguistique, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Areas of Specialization: Haitian Literature, Autobiography, Memory
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Jasmine has worked as a journalist and media producer, a translator, a copywriter, and an art director... When she is asked about the unexpected path from an original diploma in Pharmacy and her steadfast career in linguistics and communication, she vigorously argues that no one (and, most of all in Haiti, where options are so scarce) should be forced to choose a career at 18. Actually, in her recent settlement in New York, she decided within many options, to finally reconcile her many "hers" by focusing on what was common in all of her activities: the text.
She is interested in the construction of the self in personal memory writing in Haitian Literature. She spends herself between her course of study, teaching French at York College (CUNY), and the promotion of the Haitian Book Centre for the diffusion of Haitian (and Francophone) literature outside Haiti.
Her publications include Mémoire de Femmes (link), Germaine ou Chercher la vie... |
Laila Pedro
B.A., French, Connecticut College
Languages: Spanish and French
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Stève Puig
B.A., English, University of Missouri
M.A., French, University of North Carolina
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| Stève Puig holds a Master's degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is working on Francophone Caribbean writers and urban literature. He has presented papers on Aimé Césaire, René Maran, Orientalism, Rachid Djaidani, Louis-Philippe Dalembert and other contemporary Haitian writers. He has published articles in Les Cahiers du GERF, The Journal of Haitian Studies, the Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage and Nouvelles Francographies. He is currently teaching at Hunter College in New York. |
Joseph Rienti
B.A., International Political Economy and French, Fordham University
M.A., Humanities and Sciences, Fordham
University
Areas of Specialization: 19th Century Literature,
Cultural Studies, French Gastronomy
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Director of International and Study Abroad Programs at Fordham
University in New York, Joe studied abroad at the Université de Paris, Sorbonne for one year while pursuing his BA in International Political Economy and French from Fordham University. Upon graduating in 2002, Joe taught high school English at Lycée Charles le Chauve in Roissy-en-Brie, France as part of an Ambassade de France and Fulbright Commission partnership. He has also worked as a Financial Aid counselor at Fordham. Mr. Rienti holds an MA in Humanities and Sciences from Fordham's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and is currently pursuing a PhD in French at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has travelled throughout France and the Francophone world. Joe is also an adjunct instructor of French at Fordham University.
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Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
M.A., French as a Second Language, Tours, France
M.A., English, Tours, France
Languages: French, English, and Italian
Areas of Specialization: French, Film, Pedagogy
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| This year, I am finishing my dissertation at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. I am currently a Technology fellow at City University of New York, helping Foreign Language faculty design online courses. I am also teaching French at College of Staten Island (Fall 2007). For 5 years, I have been a teacher educator at Bennington College during the summer for the MATSL program (Master's in the Arts of Teaching a Second Language). I have three upcoming publications: a module on the Enlightenment for a French 2nd-year book led by Isabelle Kaplan, an article on French Women film titles and another on film title semiotics. |
| John F. Sorrentino is a PhD Candidate in French Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation is entitled "Gide in the First Person: The "I" of Religion and Same-Sex Sexuality." His publications include "Portrait of a Giant" in the French Interdisciplinary (Vishma Press) as well as a forthcoming publication on Faculty Development in Writing Across the Curriculum. Interdisciplinary work includes writing and instructional technology pedagogy, through which he developed with Prof. Magda Vasillov an online Art History Course that was implemented as part of the charter curriculum for the CUNY Online Baccalaureate. He has taught French Language courses at Hunter and York Colleges, was a Writing Fellow at Hostos Community College, and a University Research Foundation Fellow for the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs. He is currently an Instructional Technology Fellow at the Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College. |
Liza Tripp
BA in French, Barnard College
Certificate in French-English Translation, NYU.
Languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English
Area of Specialization: Translation
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| Liza Tripp is currently a 2nd year student at the Grad Center. She has been a translator of Romance Languages for over 4 years. While she does many legal, financial and technical translations, she also has a great appreciation for the art of literary translation. Recent literary projects include a 95-page poem by Haitian poet Claude Pierre. A native Staten Islander, she currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband Noel and their dictionary-eating dog Moses. |
Ashley Williard
B.A., Liberal Arts, Hampshire College
Languages: Arabic
Area of Specialization: Translation Studies, Francophone Studies, Contemporary Poetry, Poetics
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| Ashley Williard is a first year doctoral student. She graduated from Hampshire College in May 2007 with a concentration in creative writing and French literature. For her fourth year undergraduate thesis, she translated the poetry of Edouard Glissant (Le sel noir as well as excerpts from Pays rêvé, pays réel and Le monde incréé : La folie Celat). Presently, she continues work on these translations while also doing research in Glissant's poetry and poetics. |
Tim Wilson
B.A., French Language
B.A. Jazz Performance- Trumpet,
minor in Mathematics; University of Vermont,
Languages: French, some Spanish
Areas of Specialization: Movies, some books
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| As a Ph.D. candidate interested in film, I feel it's important for me to point out that I prefer Besson to Bresson, adhering strongly as I do to Pauline Kael's great remark: "Movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them." I suspect the same holds true for literature. I'm currently studying the portrayal of marginality in "auteur" cinema with an eye toward the complicated position of the film actor as mediator between and ultimate representation of, in various senses, the director's style and the fictional character. |
Chong J. Wojtkowski
B.A., French, The University of Dallas
Areas of Specialization: Contemporary Youth Culture, Film and Media Studies, Marseille
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Chong Jennifer Wojtkowski is a fifth year doctoral student and a first generation Korean-American. She is currently working on her dissertation proposal on identity and popular culture in contemporary France. Chong is the department’s webmaster.
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