The Department has an outstanding placement record, with graduates securing excellent jobs, both inside and outside of academia.
2024
Nadrah Mohammed, PhD
Early Career Fellow, Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Imperfect and Impossible: The Desire for Female Friendship in the Francophone Novel
Benjamin Olivennes, PhD
High School Teacher, (Paris) France
Dissertation Title: A modern antimodern: Yves Bonnefoy's critique of 20th century art
Andre Pettman, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Dissertation Title: All Things Commune: The Communal Imaginary in 21st-Century French Fiction & Poetry
2023
Molly Lindberg, PhD
Middle School French Teacher, Friends Academy
Dissertation Title: La Mort Dans L'âme": The Ethics of Writing Violence, Trauma, and Recovery in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Sophia Mo, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Kansas
Dissertation title: Maneuvering at the Margins: Women’s Emancipation, the Global Anticolonial Struggle, and the Revolutionary Periodical in Algeria
2022
Noni Carter, PhD
Author, Educator, Financial Advisor, Performance Artist, Independent Scholar, Pianist, and Speaker
Dissertation Title: Homo narrans: In pursuit of science's fictions of the 'human' in 18th-century speculative science and 20th- and 21st-century speculative literature
David Haziza, PhD
Adjunct Lecturer, New York City, New York
Dissertation title: Witches, Jews, and redemption through sin in Jules Michelet's La Sorcière
Katherine Raichlen, PhD
Early Career Fellow, Columbia University
Dissertation title: Historicizing Identities: Family Stories and Twentieth-Century Jewish Migration in Francophone Literature and Film
2021
Caio Moraes Ferreira, PhD
Lecturer in the Discipline of French, Columbia University
Dissertation title: Beyond the plausible: On the relationship between history, tragedy and epic poetry in Corneille, Voltaire and Schiller
2020
Celia Abele, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Boston College
Dissertation Title: Collecting Knowledge, Writing the World: An Enlightenment Project
Katherine Balkoski, PhD
Associate Attorney, Farella, Braun and Martel
Dissertation Title: Car il y a beaucoup d'appelés, mais peu d'élus: Military conscription in French literary representations of the Algerian War
William Burton, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of California-Berkeley
Dissertation title: On the origin and end of sex: Social construction from Monique Wittig to Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Raphaëlle Burns, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), UCLA
Dissertation Title: The stories we tell: Novellas, news, and the uses of casuistry in early modern Europe
Kalinka Courtois, PhD
International Affairs Specialist, United Nations
Dissertation title: "Groupe d' Informaiton sur les Prisons": French intellectuals and activism post May '68
Tommaso Manfredini, PhD
Frank B. Weeks Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
Dissertation Title: The Multilingual Grammar of Illegalization: Law, Aesthetics, and Translation in the Central Mediterranean
2019
Adham B. Azab, PhD
Operations Generalist/Project Manager, Private Family Office
Dissertation Title: Cum dicit auctoritas: Quotational practice in two bilingual treatises on love by Gérard of Liège
Rose Gardner, PhD
English Teacher, École Jeannine Manuel (Paris)
Dissertation Title: The politics of repentance in sixteenth-century France (1572-1610)
Sarah Lazur, PhD
Term Associate French Instructor, Barnard College
Dissertation Title: Modernist poetics between France and Brazil: Influence and cannibalism in the works of Blaise Cendrars and Oswald de Andrade
Max McGuinness, PhD
Teaching Assistant in French, University of Limerick
Dissertation Title: Modernism and Mass Press from Mallarmé to Proust
Blase A. Provitola, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Trinity College
Dissertation Title: Sex, Race, and the Epistemology of Desire in the Literature and Culture of Contemporary France
Matthew Trumbo-Tual, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Hollins University
Dissertation title: Proust and speech
2018
Gabriela Badea, PhD
Lecturer, Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Allegories of Selfhood in Late Medieval Devotional Literature
Anaïs Maurer, PhD
Assistant professor of French and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
Dissertation Title: Under the Nuclear Sun: Ecocritical Literature and Antinuclear Struggle in the Pacific
2017
Diana King, PhD
Communications Consultant, Writer, Editor, and Translator
Dissertation Title: Translating revolution in twentieth-century China and France: Theories, practices, texts
Elizabeth Marcus, PhD
Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Newcastle University
Dissertation Title: Difference and Dissidence: French, Arabic and Cultural Conflict, 1943-1975
Yohann Ripert, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Stetson University
Dissertation Title: Rethinking Négritude: Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Imagination of a Global Postcoloniality
2016
Laure Astourian, PhD
Associate Professor (tenure track), Bentley University
Dissertation Title: Outside the Metropolitan Frame: The Nouvelle Vague and the Foreign, 1954-1968
2015
Jacqueline Lerescu, PhD
Associate Director of Stewardship, Office of Alumni and Development, Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Writing Against the Reader: Poetry and Readership in France, 1840-1880
Johanna Magin, PhD
Responsable des programmes, Mind & Life Europe
Dissertation Title: Bodies of Wisdom: Philosophy as Medicine in Montaigne and Pascal
Ana Oancea, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Delaware
Dissertation Title: The Fate of Invention in Late 19th-Century Literature
Rebecca Sopchik, PhD
Director of Finance and Administration, EPIC Columbia University
Dissertation Title: The Radicalization of Discourse during the French Revolution
Alex Virastau, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Dissertation Title: The Invention of Memoirs in Renaissance France
2014
Roderick Cooke, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Florida Atlantic University
Dissertation Title: Aesthetics and Politics in the Dreyfus Affair
Séverine Martin, PhD
Director of Undergraduate Programs, Reid Hall Columbia University (Paris)
Dissertation Title: Out of the Néant into the Everyday: A Rediscovery of Mallarmé’s Poetics
Eric Matheis, PhD
Lecturer, Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Capital, Value, and Exchange in the Old Occitan and Old French Tenson (including the Partimen and the Jeu-parti)
Alexandra Perisic, PhD
Associate Professor (tenure track), University of Miami
Dissertation Title: Contesting Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World Economy
Erin Twohig, PhD
Associate Professor (tenure track), Georgetown University
Dissertation Title: The Contentious Classroom: Education in Postcolonial Literature from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
2013
Jason Earle, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Sarah Lawrence College
Dissertation Title: Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Interwar French Literature
Casiana Ionita, PhD
Editor, Penguin Press, United Kingdom
Dissertation Title: The Educated Spectator: Cinema and Pedagogy in France, 1909-1930
Benjamin Young, PhD
ACLS Public Fellow/Content Development Analyst, JSTOR, New York
Dissertation Title: Eloquence and Music: The “Querelle des Bouffons” in Rhetorical Context
2012
Annelle Curulla, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Williams College
Dissertation Title: Forms of Enclosure: the Convent Plays of the French Revolution
Kirsten Ellicson, PhD
Language Consultant, Paris
Dissertation Title: Collecting as Self-Exploration in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Mehammed Mack, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Smith College
Dissertation Title: Immigration and Sexual Citizenship: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Contemporary France
2011
Matthew Bridge, PhD, JD '13
Assistant Counsel, Special Federal Litigation, Law Department, New York City
Dissertation Title: A Monster for our Times: Reading Sade across the Centuries
Mallika Lecoeur, PhD
Program Coordinator, Columbia Global Center, Paris
Dissertation Title: Conversation and Performance in Seventeenth-Century French Salon Culture
Sarah-Louise Raillard, PhD
Free-Lance Translator
Dissertation Title: Perilous Pedagogies: Female Education Questioned in the Epistolary Novels of Rousseau, Laclos, Sade, and Charrière
2010
Olivia Harrison, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Cross-Colonial Poetics: Reading Palestine in Maghrebi Literature
Toby Wikström, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Tulane University
Dissertation Title: Law, Conquest, and Slavery on the French Stage, 1598-1685
2009
Daisy Aaronian, PhD
Instructor, Lesley University
Dissertation Title: Simon Goulart and the Calvinist Edition of Montaigne’s Essays (1595)
Anne-Catherine Dutoit, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Arizona State University
Dissertation Title: Poetic Propaganda: Aesthetics and Politics in Céline’s Bagatelles pour un Massacre
2008
Max Kramer, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Baruch College, City University of New York
Dissertation Title: The Poetry of Inversion: Queer Metaphor in Arthur Rimbaud, Stefan George, and Federico García Lorca
Noura Wedell, PhD
Translator, Editor, Semiotext(e), Adjunct Faculty, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Blinking Space: André du Bouchet’s Ecopoiesis
Andrea Thomas, PhD
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Loyola University Maryland
Dissertation Title: Lautréamont and the Poetics of Posterity