Meet Our Graduate Students

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Nicholas Albanese, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Currently Program Director, Rutgers University Study Abroad in Florence, Italy

Olga Amarie, PhD, French Literature (ABD)

Website: http://php.indiana.edu/~oamarie/

Scholarly interests: 20th century French Literature, Georges Perec, OULIPO, Formal Constraints, Teaching Literature

Degrees earned: MA in French literature, Indiana University, 2004; MA in Philology/ French Literature, Al. I. Cuza University, Romania, 1997; BA in French and English, A. Russo State University, Moldova, 1996.

Achievements include:

Translation submitted for publication: Gaina, Ion. The Word. (with Rosemary Lloyd)

Exhibition: Juliette Adam. (with Rosemary Lloyd) Bloomington, Indiana. The Lilly Library: 2007.

Article: « Mon amitié n’est pas d’occasion, elle est de toujours » (Remy de Gourmont à Octave Mirbeau). Cahiers Octave Mirbeau # 13, 2006. Angers. France.

Awards include the Grace P. Young Graduate Award in recognition of excellent achievement in French Literary Studies. Department of French and Italian. Indiana University, Bloomington.

Dissertation: Director: Prof. Margaret Gray

Nick André, MA, French Linguistics

Website: http://mypage.iu.edu/~nandre/

Scholarly interests: Contrastive linguistics: French/Haitian Creole

Degrees earned: BA, Faculté de Linguistique Appliquée, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Achievements include: Editorial Assistant for Haitian Creole-English Bilingual Dictionary. Creole Institute, Bloomington: Indiana University, 2007.

Pauline Archambault, Exchange student at IUB for 2007/2008

Degrees earned: BA in British and American literatures and civilizations, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg; Master 1 in British and American literatures and civilizations, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg.

Beatrice Arduini, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Scholarly interests: Dante studies; manuscript studies and material philology; pre-Dantesque literature; literary culture of the Tre-, Quattro-, and early Cinquecento 6.

Degrees earned: Diploma di laurea (BA) in Modern Letters, Universita' degli Studi, Milano; MA in Italian, Indiana University; Dottorato di ricerca (PhD), Universita' degli Studi, Milano.

Achievements include:

Article: Alcune precisazioni su un manoscritto trecentesco del Convivio: BNCF II iii 47. «Medioevo e Rinascimento», XX (2006), pp. 383-391.

Conference presentation: Conference of the Società Italiana di Filologia Romanza in Padova, Italy: Il genere-canzone nel più antico testimone del Convivio.

Fellowship: Russell A. Havens Scholarship in Foreign Languages and Louise McNutt, Graduate Fellowship for 2007-08.

Dissertation: “The Convivio in the Trecento: the Manuscript Culture of a Dantean Fragment”; Director: Prof. H. Wayne Storey

Francesco Marco Aresu, MA, Italian

Scholarly interests: Italian poetry of the 20th Century, Sardinian literature.

Degrees earned: Dottore in Lettere, Università degli studi di Cagliari, Italy.

Achievements include:

Editor and translator of Latin texts of the 18th Century for the Centro di Studi Filologici Sardi: G. Delogu Ibba, Index libri vitae, Cagliari, Centro di Studi Filologici Sardi/Cuec, 2003 (edition and translation of sections I-V); A. Purqueddu, De su tesoru de sa Sardigna, Cagliari, Centro di Studi Filologici Sardi/Cuec, 2004 (edition and translation of the Latin sections)

Awards: 110/110 summa cum laude, highest honours for dissertation, from Università degli studi di Cagliari

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Feray Baskin, PhD, French Linguistics

Fabio Benincasa, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Florin Beschea-Fache, PhD, French Literature (ABD)

Currently Lecturer in French, University of North Carolina-Asheville

Teaching Portfolio: http://mypage.iu.edu/~fbeschea/home.htm

Scholarly interests: Medieval French Literature

Degrees earned: BA, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; MSE, University of Southern Indiana; MA in French literature, Indiana University

Achievements include: Conference presentations:

“Heart and Body: The Relationship between Moral and Physical Qualities in Three Miracles by Gautier de Coinci.” 5th Annual Comitatus Conference for Medieval Studies, Purdue University, February 23-24, 2007

“Ghérasim Luca: Paralipomènes.” Presented at the 14th Annual Colloquium organized by the Department of French and Italian Graduate Student Organization, Indiana University, April 2005

“Ambivalence paradoxale de la parole dans deux lais: Bisclavret et Mélion.” Presented at the 12th Annual Colloquium organized by the Department of French and Italian Graduate Student Organization, Indiana University, April 2003.

Dissertation: "Corps, coeur et raison dans les Miracles de Nostre-Dame de Gautier de Coinci et Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame par Personnages" (working title); Director: Prof. Jacques Merceron.

Carla Bicoff, PhD, Italian

Scholarly interests: Contemporary literature and cinema, comparative literature, and the role of the “other”

Degrees earned: MA in Italian Studies, Florida State University; BA in International Business, University of Florida

Achievements include: Conference Presentation: Paper on Dante Alighieri at the PAMLA conference in November 2007.

Amy Brewster, PhD, French Linguistics (ABD)

Marie-Line Brunet, MA, French literature

Website: http://mypage.iu.edu/~mbrunet

Degrees earned: Maitrise in English linguistics, Université Paris X Nanterre

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Valerio Cappozzo, PhD, Italian

Tamara Carrell, MA, French Literature

Scholarly interests: Renaissance and Medieval French Literature

Degrees Earned: BA in German, Central College, 1995; Teachers Certification, UMKC, 1998; MA in Romance Languages and Literature (French), University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2005.

Achievements include: Renaissance Studies Fellowship 2007-2008

Diana Cervone, MA, French Literature

Ricardo Chiaruttini, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Currently Visiting Lecturer in Italian, Indiana University

Scholarly interests: Modern Italian Literature, Linguistics

Degrees earned: Laurea in Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Udine, Italy; MA in Italian, University of Virginia.

Dissertation: "Borders, Migration, and Exile in Modern Italian Literature"; Director: Prof. Andrea Ciccarelli

Ermanno Conti, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Currently Visiting Lecturer in Italian, Indiana University

Scholarly interests: Second Language Acquisition

Degrees earned: Laurea in lettere, Università di Urbino, Italy; MA, Indiana University

Achievements include: Publications: Streetwise Italian, McGraw-Hill, 2005 (co-author with Spani, Albanese, Balma)

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Khady Diene, MA, French Literature

Audrey Dobrenn, PhD, French Literature

Scholarly interests: (A)Sexuality in 21st century French literature

Degrees earned: MA, Indiana University

Bryan Donaldson, PhD, French Linguistics (ABD)

Currently Visiting Lecturer in French, Indiana University

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Amanda Edmonds, PhD, French Linguistics, (ABD)

Currently Maître de Langue, Université de Pau, France

Scholarly interests: Second language acquisition--in particular, processing and
pragmatics

Degrees earned: BA, Marshall University; MA in French Linguistics, Indiana University

Achievements include:

Employment: Assistant to the Editor for Studies in Second Language Acquisition (2 years); lectrice at the Université de Pau.

Awards: Peter Cannings Prize for outstanding achievement in French Linguistics (2006); Householder award for outstanding graduate paper in linguistics (2004).

Conference presentations: Presented a paper at EuroSLA 17 in Newcastle, UK.

Dissertation: “From conventional expressions to formulas”, Co-Directors: Prof. Laurent Dekydtspotter and Prof. Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig.

Elizabeth Elmi, MA, Italian

Scholarly interests: Italian literature

Degrees earned: BA, Vassar College

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Heidi Florian, MA, French Literature

Scholarly interests: 19th and 20th centuries.

Degrees earned: BA in French and Music, Kalamazoo College, 2004.

Audrey Liljestrand Fultz, PhD, French Linguistics (ABD)

Currently Visiting Lecturer in French, Indiana University

Scholarly interests: Second Language Acquisition and Phonology

Degrees earned: BA, Taylor University; MA in French Linguistics, Indiana University

Achievements include:

Publications: “Prosody in syntactic disambiguation in English-French Interlanguage.” in Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development. 2006. Co-editor with L. Dekydtspotter and R. Sprouse of Proceedings of the 7th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2004), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Conference presentation: “The Use of Prosody for Disambiguation in English-French Interlanguage.” Paper presented at GASLA-9 at the University of Iowa, May 18-20, 2007

Dissertation: “Prosody in lexical and syntactic disambiguation in English-French interlanguage”, Director: Prof. Laurent Dekydtspotter

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Rachel Galli, MA, Italian

Scholarly interests: Music, the Renaissance

Degrees earned: BA in Humanities with an emphasis in music, Brigham Young University

Arielle Gereboff, PhD, in French linguistics

Scholarly interests: Language and Gender in CMC.

Degrees earned: BA in French, UC Santa Barbara, 2004; BA in Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara, 2004; MA in French Linguistics, Indiana University, 2007.

Achievements include: Awards: Daniel G. Aldrich Outstanding Senior Award, UCSB, 2004. National Society of Collegiate Scholars award, UCSB, 2004.

Stefano Gulizia, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Currently holds visiting faculty position at Washington University, St. Louis

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Robert Hackett, MA, Italian

Scholarly interests: Guittone d'Arezzo and Occitan poetry

Degrees earned: B.A. in Italian, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2004.

Azeb Haileselassie, MA, French Instruction

Eric C. Halicki, PhD, French Linguistics (ABD)

Website: http://mypage.iu.edu/~ehalicki/home.html

Currently lecturer in French, Duke University

Shannon Halicki, PhD, French Linguistics (ABD)

Currently lecturer in French, Duke University

Raymond Hamilton, MA, French Linguistics

Scholarly interests: French Creoles, romance linguistics and sociolinguistics.

Degrees earned: BA in French and Spanish, West Virginia University.

Helen Hathorn, PhD, French Literature (ABD)

Jon Hathorn, PhD, French Linguistics (ABD)

Anne Haugen, MA, French Literature

Travis Hinkle, PhD, French Literature (ABD)

Scholarly interests: Medieval French literature

Degrees earned: BA in French and Biology, Furman University, 2001; MA in French Literature, Indiana University, 2005.

Achievements include:

Fellowship: 2007-08 Trapnell Fellowship for pre-1789 literature

Conference Presentation: "Dame Gueline, an atypical hagiographical sermon joyeux." Medieval Studies Institute Conference, IUB, 2006.

Dissertation: As yet untitled but will concern issues of crime, punishment and justice in the Old French Fabliaux. Director: Prof. Jacques Merceron.

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Iskra Iskrova, PhD, French Linguistics and Linguistics (ABD)

Scholarly interest: Creole studies, phonetics, prosody and intonation

Degrees earned: Licence Paris V; Maîtrise and DEA Paris VII; MA, Indiana University

Dissertation: “Prosody and intonation in two French-based creoles: Haitian and Guadeloupean.” Co-Directors: Prof. Albert Valdman (French Linguistics) and Prof. Ken de Jong (Linguistics).

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Robert Kilpatrick, PhD, French Literature (ABD)

Currently Senior Lecturing Fellow, French, Duke University

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Ioana Larco, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Currently Resident Fellow in Italian, Gettysburg College

Kayleigh Lebak, MA, French Linguistics

Scholarly interests: Second Language Acquisition

Degrees earned: BA in French, University of Houston

Aubri McVey Leung, PhD, French Literature (ABD)

Scholarly interests: Medieval Poetry and the 20th century novel

Degrees earned: B.A. in French and Violin Performance, Butler University; MA in French Literature, Indiana University

Achievements include:
Conference presentations:

Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2007: “Mirror Imagery in Aucassin et Nicolete & Le Roman de Silence: A Medieval Framework for Present-day Notions of Gender and Butler’s Theory of Gender Performativity”

48th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (2006): Religion and Literature Panel: “The Half-Life of Religious Thinking”; 18th Annual Medieval Symposium of the Medieval Studies Institute (2006): “An Unorthodox Interpretation of Faith: Sins of the Fathers & Erasmus’ Enchiridion Militis Christiani in L’Heptaméron.”

Dissertation: Director: Prof. Margot Gray

Tamara Lindner, PhD, French Linguistics (ABD)

Scholarly interests: French in Louisiana, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Discourse Analysis

Degrees earned: BA, French, University of Georgia; MA, French Literature,
Louisiana State University; MA, French Linguistics, Indiana University.

Achievements include:

Publications: Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and Native American Communities. [In Progress] Edited by Albert Valdman, Kevin J. Rottet, Barry Jean Ancelet, Amanda LaFleur, Richard Guidry, Thomas A. Klingler, Tamara Lindner, Michael D. Picone, and Dominique Ryon.

CD-Rom: “A la découverte du français cadien à travers la parole/Discovering Cajun French through the Spoken Word.” David M. Rojas, Deborah Piston-Hatlen, Kathryn Propst, Madeleine Gonin & Tamara Lindner (Eds). (Project Director: Albert Valdman), Bloomington: Indiana University Creole Institute, 2003.

Conference presentations: "Louisiana High School Students' Attitudes Toward Cajun French: A Pilot Study." Paper presented at AAAL 2007, Costa Mesa, California.

Dissertation: "High Schools Students' Attitudes toward Cajun French in Acadiana." Co-Directors: Profs. Albert Valdman & Kevin J. Rottet

Frederique Loisseau, MA, French Literature

Website: http://mypage.iu.edu/~freloiss/

Scholarly interests: Literature, Social Psychology, Philosophy

Degrees earned: Licence in psychology, Université Charles-de-Gaulle (Lille III), France, 2002; Maîtrise, American Literature, Université Charles-de-Gaulle (Lille III), France, 2005.

Amandine Lorente-Lapole, MA, French Linguistics

Scholarly interests: Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics

Degrees earned: MA, English Linguistics, Université de Pau, France, 2005.

Chris Lysack, PhD, French Literature and PhD, Music (ABD)

Scholarly interests: 19th-century opera

Degrees earned: BM, BSOF, and MM, Indiana University

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Dennis Martinez, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Miguel Martinez-Marquez, PhD, French Linguistics

Danielle McShine, PhD, French Linguistics

Mary Migliorelli

Amanda (Kate) Miller, MA, French Linguistics

Francisco (Paco) Montaño, PhD, French Linguistics

Website: http://php.indiana.edu/~fmontano

Scholarly interests: Romance linguistics, phonology, historical linguistics, prosody, language contact

Degrees earned: M.A. in French Linguistics, Indiana University (2006); B.A. in French, Princeton University (2003)

Achievements include:

Publications: “Morphology and Lexical Semantics” (book review). In Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée (Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics). eds. Hélène Knoerr and Patricia Balcom. Bibliothèque Nationale du Canada. vol. 8, no. 1. Spring 2005. pp. 101-105.

Conference Presentations: “Phonetic Variation in the Realization of Vimeu Picard Geminate Morphemes.” Presented with Julie Auger at NWAV 35, Columbus, Ohio. November 9-12, 2006.

“Gallicism in Medieval Spanish: A Study of Etymological Objectivity in the Lexicographic Tradition.” Presented at the 3rd Annual FIGS Conference, University of Texas at Austin. April 20-21, 2006.

“Etymological Treatments of Gallo-Romance Lexical Borrowings: A Case of Ideological Interference in Spanish Lexicography?” presented at the Indiana University French and Italian Graduate Student Colloquium: Power and Persuasion. April 8-9, 2006.

Awards: Recipient of FLAS Award in Arabic from the Department of Education
International Studies Fellow in Arabic, Center for the Study of Global Change, Indiana University. 2006-2008.

Heather Mulhern, MA, Italian

Scholarly interests: Medieval/Contemporary Italian literature, pedagogy, and film.

Degrees earned: BA, English, University of Georgia

François Mulot, PhD, French Literature (ABD)

Maria Francesca Muscarello, MA, Italian

Scholarly interests: Italian History, focusing on Italy's involvement in World War II

Degrees earned: BA: History Major, double Minor in Secondary Education and Italian, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, 2004.

Achievements include: High School Teaching License: Two years teaching at Washington High School in South Bend.

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Anthony Nussmeier, MA, Italian

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Federico Pacchioni, PhD, Italian

Website: http://www.federicopacchioni.com

Scholarly interests: Italian cinema; tradition and folklore of Italian puppets and puppeteering; trends in foreign language and culture pedagogy; modern poetry

Degrees earned: BA, Prescott College; MA, Indiana University.

Achievements include: Please see section “academia” of his homepage

Emanuela Pecchioli, MA, Italian

Joseph Pecorelli, MA, Italian

Scholarly interests: Dialectology and Italo-Brasilian literature

Degrees earned: BA, Applied Linguistics, Ohio University, 2004. MA, Applied Linguistics, Ohio University, 2006.

Rebecca Anne Petrush, PhD, French Linguistics

Website: http://mypage.iu.edu/~rpetrush

Scholarly interests: Second Language Acquisition, Phonology, Morphology

Degrees earned: BA, Clemson University; MA, Indiana University

Achievements include:

Awards: Departmental Teaching Award, 2004

Publications: “On the acquisition of ‘ne…que.’” Co-authored with Laurent Dekydtspotter. Proceedings of the 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, 25-32, 2006.

Conference Papers: “Derivational Morphology in English-French Acquisition”, presented at GASLA-9, Iowa City, Iowa, May 2007.

“On the acquisition of ‘ne…que’”, co-presented with Laurent Dekydtspotter at GASLA-8, Banff, Alberta, April 2006.

Andrea Polegato, PhD, Italian

Scholarly interests: The literary relationship between China and Italy

Degrees earned: BA, Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Padova, 2004; MA, Italian, Indiana University, 2007.

Tamara Pollack, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Angela Porcarelli, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Currently Italian and Lecturing Fellow, Duke University

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Claire Renaud, PhD, French Linguistics

Scholarly interests: Second Language Acquisition

Degrees earned: BA, Universite de Caen; MA, Universite de Caen; MA,
University of Delaware; MA, Indiana University

Achievements include:

Publications: Dekydtspotter, L. & Renaud, C. (2007) “On intermediate traces in English-French grammar and Sentence Processing.” In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake, & I. Woo (Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, (pp. 160-171). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Conference presentations: “The treatment of culture in French-English, English-French bilingual dictionaries” presented at the 3rd FIGSO of the French and Italian department, University of Texas at Austin, April 21, 2006. Co-presented “On Intermediate Traces in English-French Grammar & Sentence Processing” with Laurent Dekydtspotter at the Boston University Conference of Language Development 31, University of Boston, MA, November 3, 2006.

Gabrielle Roberts, MA, French Literature

Scholarly interests: Classical Drama

Degrees earned: BA, Music, Furman University (Greenville, SC)

Maria Roncalli di Montorio, PhD, Italian (ABD)

Currently Visiting lecturer, Trinity College, CT

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Michèle Anne Schaal-Tessonnier, PhD, French Literature (ABD)

Scholarly interests: 20th/21st century francophone women writers

Degrees earned: Maîtrise d'anglais, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France, 2001; MA, Indiana University, 2004

Achievements include: Conference presentations:

"From alterity to hybridity: The theatricality of femininity in four contemporary francophone novels." presented at the FRIT Student-Faculty Forum series on December 1, 2006.

"Détective et princesse, typologie sexuelle composite dans Piège pour Cendrillon de Sébastien Japrisot." presented at the 16th GSO Colloquium, April 13-15 2007.

Dissertation: "De l'altérité à l'hybridité : la théâtralité de la féminité dans les romans francophones contemporains." Director: Prof. Margaret Gray.

Andrea Scapolo, PhD, Italian

Scholarly interests: Politics, ethics and religion in literature; the status and role of
Intellectuals; 20th century literature and cinema.

Degrees earned: MA, Italian, Indiana University, 2006; Laurea, Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Padova, 2003.

Achievements include: Conferences:

AATI Convention, Washington DC October 13-15, 2005: “Il tema della frontiera nell’opera di Antonio Tabucchi.”

AAIS/AATI Annual Convention, Genova May 25-28, 2006: “Santità compie il canto? L’itinerario poetico di Clemente Rebora.”

NeMLA Annual Convention, Baltimore March 1-4, 2007: “Il trittico celeste di Mario Luzi.”

Olga Scrivner, MA, French Linguistics

Scholarly interests: Romance and general linguistics.

Degrees earned: MA, French Language and French Literature, State University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Christopher Semk, PhD, French Literature (ABD)

Currently on exchange program at University of Lille, France, 2007-08.

Anna Shailer, MA, French Literature

Degrees earned: BA, Wittenberg University, 2006

Jason F. Siegel, MA, French Linguistics

Erin A. Sipe, MA, French Literature

Scholarly interests: Include the works of Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the 19th century fantastique authors.

Degrees earned: BA, Biology, Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA)

Bénédicte Sohier, MA, French Literature

Website: http://mypage.iu.edu/~bsohier

Scholarly interests: 20th century literature

Degrees earned: BA, Stephen F. Austin State University

Achievements include: Conference presentation: “Rédemption et Révolution critique de la figure féminine dans La Peste de Camus,” 16th Annual GSO Colloquium, April 2006, Indiana University, Bloomington

Nicolas St-Martin, MA, French Instruction

B. Devan Steiner, MA, French Linguistics

Scholarly interests: Historical Linguistics, Phonology

Degrees earned: BA, French and Psychology, Gettysburg College

Achievements include: Poster Presentation: "The Effect of Morphological Derivation on Stress in Muruwari: A Reworking of Stress Constraints in Optimality Theory" presented at the 13th Annual Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology (MCWOP 13), Columbus, Ohio, October 26-28, 2007

Caroline Strobbe, PhD, French Literature

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Jordi Teillard-Clemmer, PhD, French Literature

Scholarly interests: Emergent literature of Francophone Oceania with a concentration on insularity and linguistic endemicity

Degrees earned: Maîtrise, Languages, Foreign Literature and Civilization, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France, 1999.

Achievements include:

Conference Presentations: Papers on the development of New Caledonian literature and Déwé Gorodé, the leading Kanak writer of New Caledonia.

Graduate Assistant to Dr. Kelly Sax for the French Club's conversation table and film series, 2007-08.

Kathryn Tippetts, PhD, French Linguistics

Jelena Todorovic, PhD, Italian

Scholarly interests: Material philology

Degrees earned: BA, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2002; MA, Italian, Indiana University, 2006.

Achievements include: Conference presentations: "Gli echi di Iacopone da Todi nella poesia di Clemente Rebora" presented at 2007 NEMLA conference. Awarded a prize for the best paper proposal in Italian studies at the conference.

Ben Trotter (or BFT3RD@aol.com), PhD, French Linguistics

Scholarly interests: Second Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics

Degrees earned: MA, French Linguistics, Indiana University; B.A, French, Lipscomb University

Achievements include:

Awards: Departmental Teaching Award, Spring 2007

Graduate Assistant to Dr. Kelly Sax for the French Club's conversation table and film series, 2006-07.

Alexandra Tsurikova, MA, French Instruction

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Anne-José Villeneuve, PhD, French Linguistics

Website: http://mypage.iu.edu/~avillene/

Scholarly interests: French sociolinguistics and phonetics

Degrees earned: BEd, Université de Montreal; MA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; MA, French Linguistics and Linguistics, Indiana University

Achievements include:

Publications: (with J. Auger) "L'épenthèse vocalique et les clitiques en français québécois". In Glottopol 9, 2007, pp. 49-65.

Conference Presentations: (with J. Auger) "Ne-deletion in Picard and in regional French: Evidence for distinct grammars.” Paper presented at NWAV 36. Philadelphia, PA. October 12, 2007

Awards: 2007 Summer Pre-dissertation Travel Grant, Office of International Programs and the University Graduate School, Indiana University (for sociolinguistic research in Vimeu, France)

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