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The Department of French is thrilled to welcome Mame-Fatou Niang as a Visiting Professor in Fall 2024. An artist, film director, and cultural theorist, Mame-Fatou Niang is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is also the founder and Director of the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic (CBESA). Her work focuses on Blackness in Contemporary France and French Universalism. At Columbia, she is teaching a class on Alice Diop's cinema titled Alice Diop: French Cinema and Postcolonial Universalism and organizing several events at the Maison Française.
Warm congratulations go out to Nadrah Mohammed on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation, Narrative Bonds: Female Friendship, Affect, and Politics in Novels by 20th-century Francophone Women Writers.
Welcome to the Department of French: Jihad Azahrai, Marley Fortin, Lana Gaige, Ariel Joslain, Camille Matuszyk, Adele Ottenwaelter, Samantha Raup, Mai Thuong, and Jianna Walker!
We warmly congratulate André Pettman on the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation, All Things Commune: The Communal Imaginary in 21st-Century French Fiction & Poetry.
On May 6, 2024, Brooke Habit, Sara Rani Reddy and Max Salata presented their research in a panel of graduate students in French whose work has been generously sponsored by the Paul Leclerc Fund in honor of Otis Fellows and Jean Sareil in 2023-2024.
Recent Publications
To defend the place of literature in our “modern world”, Antoine Compagnon chose a shocking title, snapping like a banner, aggressive, combative, and even a little provocative.
In A Summer with Pascal, celebrated literary critic Antoine Compagnon opens our minds to a figure somehow both towering and ignored.
