French Linguistics
Tracey Adams
Teaching Assistant
traceygadams@utexas.edu |
HRH 4.168
Education: B.A. in French, B.A. in Linguistics, University of Florida
Interests: Bilingualism, Language Contact, Sociolinguistics
Joshua Griffiths
Assistant Instructor
j.griffiths@utexas.edu |
512-471-7407 |
HRH 4.170
Education: M.A. in French Linguistics, UT Austin
Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Phonology, Corpus Phonology, Cognitive Science
Karina High
Assistant Instructor
khigh@utexas.edu |
512-471-9618 |
HRH 4.148
Education: M.A. French, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Comparative and Diachronic Romance Linguistics; Language Variation and Contact; Grammaticalization; Sociolinguistics.
Brendon Kaufman
Assistant Instructor
bkaufman@utexas.edu |
HRH 4.144
Education: B.A. Mathematics, B.A. French, Hamilton College (NY)
Interests: Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes and Ideology, Language Variation
James Law
Assistant Instructor
jimlaw@utexas.edu |
512-471-9427 |
HRH 4.142
Interests: Lexical semantics; cognitive linguistics; historical corpus linguistics
Fanny Macé
Walther Scholar 2017-2018
fmace@utexas.edu |
HRH 4.110
Education: M.Ed., Teaching English as a Second Language, Université de Tours
Interests: Critical Discourse Analysis, Semantics, New Media & Digital Culture, Political Communication, Interdiscursivity
Elizabeth Mayne
Assistant Instructor
elizabeth.anne.mayne@gmail.com |
512-471-8458 |
HRH 4.128
Education: MA in French Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interests: pragmatics, second language acquisition, memetics, semiotics, computer-mediated communication
Rozen Neupane
Assistant Instructor
rneupane@utexas.edu |
512-471-9636 |
HRH 4.150
Education: M.A. French, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Sociolinguistics, language contact, Québec, South Asian languages, computational linguistics, language planning and policies
Caitlin O Neil
Assistant Instructor
coneil3141@utexas.edu |
512-471-8964 |
HRH 4.114
Education: M.A. French, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Translation; language ideologies; historical linguistics
Marylise Rilliard
Assistant Instructor
mrilliard@utexas.edu |
512-471-8771 |
HRH 4.102C
Education: M.A. in English Studies, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
Interests: Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism, Language Contact, Language Variation, Second Language Acquisition
French Studies
Amir Aziz
Teaching Assistant
aaziz@utexas.edu |
512-471-9967 |
HRH 4.168
Education: International Studies, French, Arabic, University of Mississippi
Interests: Francophone North African literature and cultural studies; Postcolonial theory; Feminist of color theory; Gender and sexuality; Race/ethnicity and social justice; Queer immigration and sexual politics; Performance and theater studies; Transnational feminist and queer movements
Andrea Blatz
Teaching Assistant
andreablatz@utexas.edu |
HRH 4.130
Education: B.A. in French and Linguistics, Colgate University
Interests: North Africa, Postcolonialism, early cinema
Stephanie Brynes
Assistant Instructor
stephaniebrynes@gmail.com |
512-471-5390 |
HRH 4.158
Education: M.A. in French Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: women's literature; autofiction; questions of memory, identity, and gender; translation studies and transnational literature in the early 20th century
Yasmina Fawaz
Assistant Instructor
yazzfawaz@utexas.edu |
HRH 4.164
Education: MA French Literature, University of Georgia
Interests: African Francophone Literature, Race and Gender studies, Ecocriticism
Sarah Le Pichon
Assistant Instructor
lepichonsarah@gmail.com |
512-471-8906 |
HRH 4.112
Education: BA French and English, Lewis & Clark College
Interests: 19th century; Comparative/American Literature; gender studies
Maxence Leconte
Assistant Instructor
mpl642@utexas.edu |
512-471-8540 |
HRH 4.134
Education: M.A in French Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A in European History, Université Catholique de Lille.
Interests: Reality and Modernity, the Realist Novel, the City, Literary Geography and Urban Studies.
Clémence Ozel
2016-2017 Walther Fellow
cozel@utexas.edu |
512-471-8805 |
HRH 4.104
Education: MA in French Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Ryan Swankie
PhD Candidate in French Studies | Assistant Instructor of French, FR 317C "Enhancing French Skills"
swank1@utexas.edu |
512-471-8566 |
HRH 4.136
Education: M.A. French Studies | Master en littérature et discours francophone, Arizona State University | Paris XII
Interests: Modern French Literature: 20th Century Avant-garde Drama; 19th Century Prose-poetry; Sadean Theory
Ashley Voeks
Ph.D. Candidate | Assistant Instructor
amvoeks@utexas.edu |
HRH 4.116
Education: M.A. in French Literature, Wayne State University
Interests: Early Modern French Literature and Culture; The French Wars of Religion; Rhetoric and Poetics; Theater and Performance; Digital Humanities
Jocelyn Wright
Assistant Instructor
jocelyn.wright@utexas.edu |
512-471-9242 |
HRH 4.132
Education: PhD Candidate in French Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Francophone literature; 20th and 21st century French literature; contemporary French culture; the French banlieue; immigration; gender studies; identity
Laetitia Zembski
PhD Candidate / Walther Fellow
lzembski@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8250 |
HRH 4.126
Education: M.A. Romance Languages-French Literature & Civilization / M.A. Spanish Literature, University of New Orleans
Interests: 19th Century Lit./ Courtesans in French Literature, Culture and Arts / WGS/ Autobiography/ Memoirs / French Fashion
Italian Studies
Robert Bucci
Assistant Instructor
robert.bucci@utexas.edu |
512-471-8628 |
HRH 4.154
Education: M.A. in Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut
Interests: Dante, Ecocriticism, Aesthetics, Medieval and Early Modern Italian Literature, Leopardi
Amanda Bush
Assistant Instructor
amanda.bush@utexas.edu |
512-495-6393 |
HRH 4.178
Education: MA Italian Studies- New York University, BA Italian Studies, English Literature- John Cabot University
Interests: 20th Century Literature, Post War Cinema, Southern Italy, Gender Studies, Dialects
Vanessa Fanelli
OGS Recruitment Fellow
vanessa_fanelli@utexas.edu |
512-471-9464 |
HRH 4.140
Education: Laurea Triennale, Università degli Studi di Milano
Interests: Italian cinema, women and gender studies, gender inequality, and modern Italian panorama
Samuel Gaglio
Assistant Instructor
samgaglio@utexas.edu |
512-475-6438 |
HRH 4.156
Education: M.A. Italian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Italo Calvino, Postmodernism, Postwar Italy, Pedagogy
Altina Hoti
Ph.D. Candidate, Assistant Instructor
altina.hoti@gmail.com |
401-924-4771 |
HRH 4.172
Education: M.A.in Italian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Nineteenth-century nationalism and feminism in Italy and the Balkans; the writings of Dora D’Istria; Arbereshe literature; Catholic and Muslim religious orders and nineteenth -century Italian and Albanian nation-state formation; Ottoman literature; gender and science in early-modern Venice; Italian neorealist films; gender discourse and violence in 20th century film.
Elisa Valentini
Assistant Instructor
elisa.valentini@utexas.edu |
512-475-6408 |
HRH 4.152
Education: Master of Arts in International Cooperation, Protection of Human Rights and Cultural Heritage in the Mediterranean Sea and Eurasia, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (Italy)
Interests: Early 20th century avant-garde, Italian Futurism, Futurist art and literature, early 20th century Italian cultural and scientific history
Patrick Vilim
Assistant Instructor
vilim@utexas.edu |
512-475-9461 |
HRH 4.182
Education: STB Theology, Università Gregoriana, Rome, ITALY, MA Italian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Medieval Italian cultural & religious history, Francis of Assisi, Boccaccio's Decameron, Italian cinema, Italian identity, and Italian nationalism
