Faculty & Staff

French and Francophone Studies Faculty and Instructional Staff

Carina Yervasi

Associate Professor

Executive Director, Global Engagement

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Global Engagement Office

Global Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8167
  2. Kohlberg Hall 309
  3. Scott Arboretum (Cunningham House)
  4. Office Hours: In person and/or virtual. Please schedule in advance. Tuesday: 2-4pm., Thursday: 9-11am. The link for T/TH is here.  Fridays: Virtual Only, 12pm-3pm. Here's the link for Fridays.
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Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Professor

Section Head, French & Francophone Studies

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8159
  2. Kohlberg Hall 313
  3. Beardsley Hall 108
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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. Beardsley Hall 102B

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 III

Assistant Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Black Studies

Contact

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

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
  3. Beardsley Hall 111

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. Beardsley Hall 109
  4. Office Hours: Mondays 3:30 - 4:30 p.m., Thursdays 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 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. Beardsley Hall 109
  4. Office Hours: Mondays 2:00 - 3:30 p.m., Thursdays 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., and by appointment.
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French and Francophone Studies Administrative Staff

Jessica Bawgus

(she-her-hers-herself)

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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