2008
- 2009 Faculty
Permanent
Faculty
Samba
Gadjigo, Professor
of French,
is a specialist in the literatures of French-speaking Africa,
particularly the work of Ousmane
Sèmbene and African Cinema. He is a member of the African-American and African Studies program faculty. Email
Elissa Gelfand,
Dorothy Rooke McCulloch Professor of French, is also a member of
the Romance Language and Literatures program faculty. Her research
and teaching areas include French and Francophone women writers,
twentieth-century French culture and literature, and comparative
feminist theory. Email
Nancy C. Holden-Avard, Senior
Lecturer in French, is a specialist in pedagogy, foreign language
acquisition, and curriculum development. Her professional interests
include stylistics and translation, French cultural studies, error
analysis, learning styles, and technology- enhanced instruction.
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Catherine
LeGouis, Professor of
French and chair of the department, teaches language courses and nineteenth-century French literature
focusing on the New Wave and its Russian and American influences.
Her field of research is nineteenth- and twentieth-century French
and Russian comparative literature. Email
Christopher
Rivers, Professor of
French, teaches all levels of language and literature/culture
courses in the department and serves as adviser for study abroad
in France/Francophone countries. His research interests include
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French novels and literary translation.
Email
Nicole
Vaget, Professor of
French, teaches all levels of language and culture/literature courses
in the department and is a pioneer in distance learning. Her publications
are in the fields of French and Francophone cultural studies, eighteenth-century
literature, and pedagogical application of technology. She is a
member of the European Studies program and chair of the Romance Language
and Literatures program spring 2007. Email
Web courses: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/nvaget/
Visiting
Faculty
Catherine Bloom, Visiting Instructor of French, teaches
language courses at both Mount Holyoke College and Smith College.
She is currently working on another edition of a book of exercises for an advanced
grammar text with Denise Rochat of Smith College and published
by Prentice Hall. Email
Francis Guévremont, Visiting Assistant Professor
of French, is a specialist of twentieth century French and Francophone
literature. His research interests include contemporary French and
Québécois novels and films, and modernist artistic
movements such as Surrealism. Email
Nadia Margolis, Visiting Professor of French, specializes in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. She has mainly published on late-medieval humanism and poetics, particularly Christine de Pizan, and also on representations of Joan of Arc through all centuries. (away spring 2008) Email
Carolyn Shread, Visiting Assistant Professor of French,
teaches language classes at Mount Holyoke and is also Coordinator
for the Thatcher House Residential French Language Program at the
University of Massachusetts. She is interested in translation studies and working on a French to English translation of Haitian writer Marie Chauvet’s novel Les Rapaces (1986). Other areas of specialization include twentieth and twenty-first century French and Francophone literature, especially women’s literature, and critical theory, with a special interest in feminist theories. Email
Teaching Associate
Lara Matta was born in Lebanon, a francophone country where French is taught in schools from kindergarten to high school. She has been living in France for the last five years and earned her masters degree in English Language, Civilizations, and Literatures. Her BA and MA are in English. Email
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