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Faculty & Staff

French and Francophone Studies Faculty and Instructional Staff

Carina Yervasi

Associate Professor

Executive Director, Global Engagement

Section Head, French & Francophone Studies

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Global Engagement

Global Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8167
  2. Kohlberg Hall 309
  3. Office Hours:

    Tues/Thurs: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    Also by appointment via Zoom

  1. Profile

Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Professor

On Leave - Spring

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8159
  2. Kohlberg Hall 313
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays and Thursdays: 4-5 p.m.

  1. Profile
  2. Website

Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Modern Languages & Literatures

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Comparative Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8309
  2. Kohlberg Hall 311
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays 1:00-2:00 p.m. and Wednesdays: 9:00-10:30 a.m. 

    and by appointment

  1. Profile

Interests: Postcolonial Theory; Francophone Literature of the Maghreb and the Mashreq;  Comics and Graphic Novels in the Arab World; Local Publishing Markets in North Africa; (Neo)colonial representations; Representations of Islam in France.

 

Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

Marshall Smith

Assistant Professor

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Black Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3357
  2. Kohlberg Hall 341
  3. Office Hours:

    Wednesdays 4-6 p.m.

Interests: Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, African Diaspora Studies, Visual and Material Cultures, Critical Theory, Black Geographies, Africana Philosophy, and Queer Studies.

Marshall Smith

Christopher Robison

Visiting Assistant Professor

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8680
  2. Kohlberg Hall 309

Interests: 19th-century French literature and culture (the Naturalist and Decadent novel in particular); animal studies/animal ethics; history of the life sciences from the Enlightenment onwards; 18th- and 19th-century philosophy and religion.

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Arnaud Courgey

Lecturer

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7812
  2. Kohlberg Hall 304
  3. Office Hours:

    Monday: 3 p.m.-4 p.m.; Thursday: 11:20 a.m.-12:35 p.m.;
    and by appointment.

Arnaud Courgey

Anne-Sophie Jubin

Language Lecturer

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5726
  2. Kohlberg Hall 304
  3. Office Hours:

    Mondays: 11:00 a.m.-12:00 pm, Thursdays: 2:00-3:00 p.m.; and by appointment.

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French and Francophone Studies Administrative Staff

Jessica Bawgus

Administrative Assistant II

Spanish

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Modern Languages & Literatures-Arabic

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8143
  2. Kohlberg Hall 316

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