Columbia Department of French

The Department welcomes these Fall 2023 additions to our graduate student community: Beatrice Chen (New York University);  Juliette Goutierre (Sorbonne-Université, Paris IV); Madeline MacLeod (Stanford University); Renate Mattar (Paris III, la Sorbonne Nouvelle); Samantha Raup (Lycoming College); Max Salata (Yale University); Clarisse Vazquez (University of California San Diego); Jianna Walker (University of Oviedo).

Congratulations to the Columbia undergraduate and graduate students who participated in the 2023 Choix Goncourt-US under the mentorship of Laurence Marie! By a stroke of good luck, Makenzy Orcel, author of “Une somme humaine” this year's winning book, happened to be in New York to meet the student judges from Columbia, Duke, MIT, NYU, Princeton, Yale and UVA. View photos on Facebook.

Congratulations to senior French majors Mckenzy Metter and Rosa McCann, who have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

The Department congratulates Sophia Mo, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of French, Francophone & Italian Studies with a courtesy appointment in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas.

Tommaso Manfredini has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of French Studies at Wesleyan University. Congratulations!

Congratulations to André Pettman, winner of the 2023 Prix recherche au présent, which is awarded to the best graduate paper submitted at the 20th and 21st-century French Studies conference. His paper was titled “Vivre Sans: Deserting Capitalism, Governance and Identity in Les Renards Pâles de Y. Haenel.” 

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