Meet Our Faculty

Martine Guyot-Bender, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of French

License d'Anglais option Linguistique, University of Metz; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Oregon

Areas of expertise: French 20th- and 21st-century literature and film, narrative representation of trauma (war, poverty); social documentary from the 1970s to today; literature and film of the Nazi occupation of France (Patrick Modiano); women writers (Amélie Nothomb, Assia Djebar, Simone de Beauvoir)

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Roberta Krueger, the Burgess Professor of French

rkrueger@hamilton.edu

B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., University of California at Santa Cruz; Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz

Areas of expertise: medieval and Renaissance French literature and culture, medieval and early modern women writers, Chrétien de Troyes, Christine de Pizan, Antoine de la Sale, medieval European courtly romance, medieval and early modern conduct books, and French language pedagogy

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Rebecca Loescher, Visiting Assistant Professor of French

rloesche@hamilton.edu

B.A., Kent State University; B.A., University of Toulouse; M.A., University of Bordeaux; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Areas of expertise: 20th and 21st century literatures in French; Caribbean literatures; autobiography; the philosophy of relationality; linguistics

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Cheryl Morgan, Chair, Professor of French

cmorgan@hamilton.edu

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D., Columbia University

Areas of expertise: 19th-century literature, in particular French women writers, literary humor and urban literature

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Claire Mouflard, Assistant Professor of French

cmouflar@hamilton.edu

B.A.& M.A., Université de Bourgogne; M.A., University of Montana; Ph.D., University of Washington

Areas of expertise: contemporary French and francophone literature, culture, and film

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Joseph Mwantuali, Professor of French

jmwantua@hamilton.edu

B.A. and M.A., University of Zaire; M.S., New Hampshire College; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Areas of expertise: Francophone African and Caribbean literatures and cultures and 20th-century avant-garde French literature

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Théodore Abitbol, Teaching Fellow in French

tabitbol@hamilton.edu

B.A., Paris Ouest University; B.A., Sorbonne Nouvelle University; M.S., Sciences-Po Lyon

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Contact Information

French and Francophone Studies Department

198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

315-859-4771 french@hamilton.edu