Alumni and Placement

Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois. Melek’s work focuses on the singing voices of Kabyle women in film, audio recordings, and literature. She is author of Listening to Taos Amrouche, a Kabyle Woman’s Singing Voice in a Context of Exile and Immigration : Between a Search for Intimacy and Independence published in the Journal of Amazigh Studies in 2026. Her dissertation title: “Singing Matters: Women’s Voices as Survival in Colonial and Postcolonial Tamazgha.” (PhD 2026, Advisor: Olivia Harrison)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Occidental College. Jesse’s research focuses on connections between metaphors of consumption and representations of men and masculinity in Senegalese literature, film, and poetry. Dissertation title: “Tasty, Comestible Men: Metabolic Poetics in Senegal” (PhD 2023, advisor: Lydie Moudileno)

Alvin’s research focuses on Québecois and Franco-American cultural productions and representations of migration and labor. Dissertation title: “Colonial Ventures: The Poetics of Migration, Colonization, and Labor in Francophone North America” (PhD 2023, advisor: Lydie Moudileno)

Grants Manager, Los Angeles LGBT Center. Brieuc is author of the article “Sous les pavés, l’hiver: Hocquenghem, transparence, et politiques queers radicales dans le sillage de Mai 68” in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 23.2 (2019). He co-edited and wrote the preface to To Think Is to Say No by Jacques Derrida. Dissertation title: “X-human: Radical Queer Politics in the wake of May ’68 France” (PhD 2023, advisor: Panivong Norindr)

Dornsife Fellow in General Education, USC. Her article “Reconnecting Sight and Site: Reterritorialization in Chantal Spitz’s Cartes postales” appears in the April 2023 issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies. Dissertation title: “Beyond the Sea that Separates: Francophone Voices of Oceania” (PhD 2023, advisor: Olivia C. Harrison)

Richard’s work considers how filmmakers and thinkers have explored and experimented with dynamics of the everyday in post/colonial France. He is author of “The Archivist of Protest: The Attention Economy and Chris Marker’s Use of Détournement in Chats perchés” in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 27.3 (2023). Dissertation title: “Seeing Where There’s Nothing to See: French Filmmakers and Writers and Everyday Life in Postwar Social Space.” (PhD 2022, advisor: Panivong Norindr)

French Instructor, World Literatures, Flintridge Sacred Heart. Dissertation title: “Identity Trouble: National Bodies and French Hospitality” (PhD 2021, advisor: Panivong Norindr)

Associate Professor of French, Department of French, The Ohio State University. Author of Danses et pandémies. Du sida à la covid-19 (Varia Québec, 2023), and co-editor of Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2025). Dissertation title: Dissertation: “Danser la maladie, contaminer la beauté: a viral approach to the (choreo)graphed body.” (PhD 2014, advisor: Natania Meeker)

Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Tulane University. Author of The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). Her published articles include: “Disjunctures and diaspora in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss” appearing in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and “Documenting the undocumented: Valeria Luiselli’s Refugee Children Archives” published in Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture in 2020. (PhD 2011, advisor: Panivong Norindr)