UCLA French & Francophone Studies: Graduate Students

Recent PhDs

Vanessa Herold Arnaud (2001)
B.A., M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Certificat de littérature et linguistique françaises, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/St. Cloud. Certificate Program in Technology and Language Instruction, Middlebury College.
Dissertation Title: Gossip as a social force in seventeenth-century French culture.
Director: Sara Melzer

Anne Badders (2002)
C. Phil. (French) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: The poetics of belonging : intertextuality in selected works by Camara Laye, Jean-Marie Adiaffi, and Werewere Liking
Director: Patrick Coleman

Betsy Bogart (2001)
B.A. (Comparative Literature) Tufts University. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: Music and Narrative in the French New Wave: The Films of Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy.
Director: Eric Gans

Brian Brazeau (2003)
B.A. (Comparative Literature) American University of Paris. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: La réflexion qu’ils feront sur eux-mêmes : empire and identity in early New France (1604-1632)
Director: Sara Melzer

Lauren Brown (2007)
B.A. (French & Linguistics), M.A. (French) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: Reading Resistance on the Plantation: Writing New Strategies in Francophone Caribbean
Director: Françoise Lionnet

Holly Gilbert (2004)
B.A., M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: System and Intellect: Science and Imagination in the Valéryan oeuvre
Director: Shuhsi Kao

Edwin Hill (2007)
B.A. (Music Performance), M.A. (French Literature) University of Iowa.
Dissertation Title: Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Sound in the Black Francophone Atlantic
Director: Françoise Lionnet

Marie-Laure Hinton (2007)
Diplôme universitaire de technologie, Diplôme universitaire d'études supérieures technico-commerciales, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Montpellier. B.S. (Physics) CSU Dominguez Hills. B.A. (Spanish), M.A. (French) CSU Long Beach, C. Phil (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: Emile Zola Photographe
Director: Eric Gans

Heather Howard (2003)
B.A. (Political Science, International Relations, French) UC Santa Barbara. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: Diderot and the image of the reader : from L’eloge de Richardson to La religieuse.
Directors: Stephen Werner and Malina Stefanovska

Laura Leavitt Huffman (2001)
B.A. (French) UC Santa Cruz. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: True Stories: Locating Realism in the Autobiographical Intertextuality of Marguerite Duras and Annie Ernaux.
Director: Andrea Loselle

Soheila Kian (2002)
B.A., National University of Iran. M.A. (French) CSU Long Beach. C. Phil. (French) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: La traversée des frontières : écritures et transgressions d'Assia Djebar et de Leïla Sebbar.
Director: Françoise Lionnet

Pamela Klein (2002)
B.A., M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: Marcel Pagnol: Auteur de la communauté
Director: Eric Gans

Vera Klekovkina (2005)
B.A. (French) Butler Univ. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA.
20th century,
Dissertation Title: Projecting Proust: A la Recherche du temps perdu and Its Cinematic Adaptations
Director: Andrea Loselle

Karen Lindo (2006)
Dissertation Title: States of Shame: Women, Affect, Transnationalisms
Director: Françoise Lionnet

Amy Marczewski (2007)
B.A. (French) University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: Remembering Together: Francophone African Literature’s Re-Imagining of the Rwandan Genocide.
Director: Françoise Lionnet

Julie C. (Van Dam) Nack Ngue (2007)
B.A. (French) University of San Francisco. Maîtrise de lettres modernes, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal, M.A. (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: Critical Conditions: Refiguring Bodies of Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women’s Writing
Directors: Françoise Lionnet and Dominic Thomas

Alison Rice (2003)
B.A. (French, English, History) La Sierra University. M.A., C. Phil (French) UCLA. DEA (French) Université de Paris VII Denis Diderot. Pensionnaire scientifique étrangère, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Fontenay/St.Cloud.
Dissertation Title: Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb.
Director: Françoise Lionnet

Bendi Benson Schrambach (2005)
B.A. (Economics), Pepperdine University. M.A., C.Phil. (French) UCLA.
Dissertation Title: Storytelling Transformations: Narrative, Rhetoric and Community within Marguerite de Navarre's L'Heptameron and Charles Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris.
Directors: Jean-Claude Carron and Andrea Loselle

Nadège Veldwachter (2005)
Licence d'anglais, Maîtrise d'anglais (Civilisation américaine) Université de Paris XII. M.A. (French Literature) University of New Mexico.
Dissertation Title: Politiques littéraires : jeux de miroir, paratextes et traductions du discours antillais en France et aux Etats-Unis.
Director: Françoise Lionnet

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	Graduate Students Recent PhDs Complete PhD List
	Jonathon Allen B.A. (French Literature) Gardner-Webb University (N.C.), M.A. (French Literature) University of South Carolina. French New Wave film (Truffaut), Theatre (Moliere, Beckett, Ionesco), societal satire in literature, French media and society (la télé-réalité française). Leslie Barnes B.A. (Psychology) Southwestern University. Representations of Indochina and Vietnam in literature and film, immigrant writers and minority discourse, the 20th-century novel. Mary Anne Broome B.A.(French) University of MO-Kansas City, M.A. (French and Francophone Studies) University of Notre Dame 20th & 21st Century, Trauma Theory, Autobiography. Michelle Bumatay B.A. (French Literature & European History) University of California, San Diego. French Bandes Dessinées and Films. Ruthemma J. Ellison B.A. (French & Theater) Smith College, M.A. (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA. Middle Ages. Gender Studies. Julin Everett B.A.(Classical Music) Boston University. Colonial and post-colonial literatures, Caribbean and West African literatures, homosexual desire and power. Christopher Flood B.A. (Philosophy), M.A. (French Studies) Brigham Young University. 16th century literature; Montaigne, humanism, and the development of modern philosophy; cultural Christianity; medieval poetry. Sandra Abijmil Gamson B.S. (Biochemistry, French and Francophone Studies) UCLA. 18th century literature. Robert Hudson B.A. (French), M.A. (French Studies) Brigham Young University, C. Phil (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA. French Lyrical Tradition; Petrarchism and the French Sonnet; Pléïade Poets, Clément Marot, Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Louise Labé, Maurice Scève; Rabelais and Humanism; Sociology and Anthropology. Katelyn Knox B.A. (French language and literature) Williams College. Postcolonialism, diaspora studies, identity in Francophone music. Trevor Merrill B.A. (Literature), Yale University. Francophone Eastern European writers, mimetic theory, French film. Nina E. Munk B.A. (French and Philosophy) University of Washington. 16th century, Ronsard; 20th century Continental philosophy. Evelyne Penia-Fodor B.A. (French and Comparative Literature) UCLA. 16th and 17th Century, Montaigne and Pascal. French contemporary theory, especially re N. Africa. Nathalie Segeral Licence anglais et philosophie, maîtrise d'anglais (Université de Bourgogne), M.A. Comparative Literature (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). Postcolonialism, 20th-century philosophy, representation of madness in contemporary literature and autobiographies. Mina Soroosh B.A. (French) Scripps College, M.A., C. Phil (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA. French Renaissance, Pierre Charron. Christine Thuau B.A. (French Language and Literature) Whitman College. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Privacy, personalization of space, medieval residential architecture, reading and literacy. Yohana Valdez B.A. (French) University of Kentucky. Film: Immigration, racism, identity issues. Hannah Vaughan B.A. (French) Seattle University. Gender and identity issues in Francophone film and literature. Sylvie Young Licence d'anglais, Université de Nancy. Maîtrise ès lettres, Université de Dijon. M.A., C. Phil (French) UCLA. Fin de siècle studies, masculinity theories, cultural criticism and politics.
	Recent PhDs Vanessa Herold Arnaud (2001) B.A., M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Certificat de littérature et linguistique françaises, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/St. Cloud. Certificate Program in Technology and Language Instruction, Middlebury College. Dissertation Title: Gossip as a social force in seventeenth-century French culture. Director: Sara Melzer Anne Badders (2002) C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Dissertation Title: The poetics of belonging : intertextuality in selected works by Camara Laye, Jean-Marie Adiaffi, and Werewere Liking Director: Patrick Coleman Zara Bennett (2007) B.A. (French) Ohio State. Maîtrise de lettres modernes, Université de Lyon II, C. Phil (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA. Dissertation Title: From Emancipation to Commemoration: Abolition’s Affective Legacy in France and the Antilles Director: Françoise Lionnet Betsy Bogart (2001) B.A. (Comparative Literature) Tufts University. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Dissertation Title: Music and Narrative in the French New Wave: The Films of Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy. Director: Eric Gans Brian Brazeau (2003) B.A. (Comparative Literature) American University of Paris. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Dissertation Title: La réflexion qu’ils feront sur eux-mêmes : empire and identity in early New France (1604-1632) Director: Sara Melzer Lauren Brown (2007) B.A. (French & Linguistics), M.A. (French) UCLA. Dissertation Title: Reading Resistance on the Plantation: Writing New Strategies in Francophone Caribbean Director: Françoise Lionnet Holly Gilbert (2004) B.A., M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Dissertation Title: System and Intellect: Science and Imagination in the Valéryan oeuvre Director: Shuhsi Kao Edwin Hill (2007) B.A. (Music Performance), M.A. (French Literature) University of Iowa. Dissertation Title: Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Sound in the Black Francophone Atlantic Director: Françoise Lionnet Marie-Laure Hinton (2007) Diplôme universitaire de technologie, Diplôme universitaire d'études supérieures technico-commerciales, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Montpellier. B.S. (Physics) CSU Dominguez Hills. B.A. (Spanish), M.A. (French) CSU Long Beach, C. Phil (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA. Dissertation Title: Emile Zola Photographe Director: Eric Gans Heather Howard (2003) B.A. (Political Science, International Relations, French) UC Santa Barbara. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Dissertation Title: Diderot and the image of the reader : from L’eloge de Richardson to La religieuse. Directors: Stephen Werner and Malina Stefanovska Laura Leavitt Huffman (2001) B.A. (French) UC Santa Cruz. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Dissertation Title: True Stories: Locating Realism in the Autobiographical Intertextuality of Marguerite Duras and Annie Ernaux. Director: Andrea Loselle Soheila Kian (2002) B.A., National University of Iran. M.A. (French) CSU Long Beach. C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Dissertation Title: La traversée des frontières : écritures et transgressions d'Assia Djebar et de Leïla Sebbar. Director: Françoise Lionnet Pamela Klein (2002) B.A., M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA. Dissertation Title: Marcel Pagnol: Auteur de la communauté Director: Eric Gans Vera Klekovkina (2005) B.A. (French) Butler Univ. M.A., C. Phil. (French) UCLA. 20th century, Dissertation Title: Projecting Proust: A la Recherche du temps perdu and Its Cinematic Adaptations Director: Andrea Loselle Karen Lindo (2006) Dissertation Title: States of Shame: Women, Affect, Transnationalisms Director: Françoise Lionnet Amy Marczewski (2007) B.A. (French) University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA. Dissertation Title: Remembering Together: Francophone African Literature’s Re-Imagining of the Rwandan Genocide. Director: Françoise Lionnet Julie C. (Van Dam) Nack Ngue (2007) B.A. (French) University of San Francisco. Maîtrise de lettres modernes, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal, M.A. (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA. Dissertation Title: Critical Conditions: Refiguring Bodies of Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women’s Writing Directors: Françoise Lionnet and Dominic Thomas Alison Rice (2003) B.A. (French, English, History) La Sierra University. M.A., C. Phil (French) UCLA. DEA (French) Université de Paris VII Denis Diderot. Pensionnaire scientifique étrangère, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Fontenay/St.Cloud. Dissertation Title: Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb. Director: Françoise Lionnet Bendi Benson Schrambach (2005) B.A. (Economics), Pepperdine University. M.A., C.Phil. (French) UCLA. Dissertation Title: Storytelling Transformations: Narrative, Rhetoric and Community within Marguerite de Navarre's L'Heptameron and Charles Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris. Directors: Jean-Claude Carron and Andrea Loselle Nadège Veldwachter (2005) Licence d'anglais, Maîtrise d'anglais (Civilisation américaine) Université de Paris XII. M.A. (French Literature) University of New Mexico. Dissertation Title: Politiques littéraires : jeux de miroir, paratextes et traductions du discours antillais en France et aux Etats-Unis. Director: Françoise Lionnet Elizabeth Vitanza (2007) B.A. (French) Ohio State University, C. Phil (French and Francophone Studies) UCLA. Dissertation Title: Rewriting the Rules of the Game: Jean Renoir in America, 1941-1947. Director: Eric Gans
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