PhD Student in French
Meet our Graduate Students
ohf2008@nyu.edu
cjb9213@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., French, New York University, 2026 (expected)
M.A., French, University of Oregon, 2021
B.A., English Studies, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France, 2018
Research Interests
Animal & vegan studies; Ethics (animal, environmental, ethics of activism); Methodology and ethics of study, of interpretation; Critical theory; Early modern French philosophy and philosophical conflicts; Environmental humanities; Stylistics
ab8656@nyu.edu
Ph.D. student in French
PhD Student in French
Kcc460@nyu.edu
M.Phil in French, New York University 2022
Education:
B.A., Williams College; M.A., Middlebury College
Research Interests:
19th, 20th, and 21st century Francophone literature; ecocriticism; environmental humanities; postcolonial studies; spatial theory; landscape and land; translation theory; untranslatables.
Education:
B.A., Arizona State University
Research Interests:
Medieval Literature; Environmental Humanities; Animal Studies; Ecocriticism; Place Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies, Early Modern Travel, Medieval and Early Modern Birds, Human-nonhuman relationships.
Education:
B.A., University of Oxford
Research Interests:
19th and 20th Century French literature; representations of women; feminism; the relationship between literature and the visual arts; aesthetics
ltd255@nyu.edu
Education
Danse contemporaine, Centre de Formation à l'Enseignement de la Danse, Aix-en-Provence
Licence Lettres Modernes, Aix-Marseille Université
Master II Lettres Modernes - Recherche en littérature française, Aix-Marseille Université
M.Phil., French literature, New York University
Teaching and Research Interests
20th and 21st Century French Language Literatures
Postcolonial and decolonial studies
Dance and Performance studies
Voice, Textuality and Embodiment
Visual Arts (especially Photography and Cinema)
Medical Humanities
jeanne.etelain@nyu.edu
Education
Master Philosophie, Université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La-Défense (2013-2015)
Licence Humanités, Université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La-Défense (2012-2013)
Hypokhâgne-Khâgne, Lycée de Sèvres (2010-2012)
Teaching and Research Interests
Modern and contemporary philosophy; continental philosophy; French theory; critical theory; Environmental humanities; spatial theory; critical geography; anthropology; Aesthetics; media theory; cinema; 19th-20th century literature; early-modern literature
Academia page (publications, conference activity press service)
ayf218@nyu.edu
Research interests
Courtly love in French literature from Middles Ages to the 17th century; second wave feminism; scandal movies of the 1970s; representations of womanhood in French movies of the 1970s; gender reading of the French cinema after the New Wave.
twh265@nyu.edu
Education
B.A., La Sorbonne; B.A., M.A., CELSA - Paris Sorbonne
Research Interests
20th and 21st century Francophone literature; the construction of wit and conversation; language, humor and (social) class; sarcasm, political correctness and linguistic blunders; francophony in North-Africa; ease and unease in French education.
His current research focuses on the construction of wit, irony and sarcasm through a sociological lens, particularly after major events like the Paris attacks of November 2015. He has previously written about political correctness in American higher education and the social representations of the French language in Turkish and Algerian societies. His other interests include notions of the transclass, ease and unease in conversation – “sprezzatura”, linguistic blunders, the act of passing – in contemporary Francophone literature; and the figure of the schoolmaster in film.
sh5577@nyu.edu
Education
B.A., Philosophy – Classe préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles, Lycée Masséna, Nice
M.A., Philosophy and Art History – Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
M.A., Cultural Policy and Management – Institut d’études européennes, Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
Research Interests
Modern and contemporary philosophy, 20 th Century French Thought, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Deconstructionism, 19 th and 20 st century literature, Nouveau Roman.
sl2842@nyu.edu
xl3441@nyu.edu
Education
B.A., Peking University
M.A., Paris-IV.
Research Interests:
French Renaissance Literature with a broader interest in French Literature under l'Ancien Régime. Questions related to imagination (its role in literary creation and philosophical speculation, and its impact on the formation of the self and the social relation), women writers, multilingualism, definition and use of knowledge, and classical reception.
egl281@nyu.edu
Emelyn Lih is a doctoral candidate working under the direction of Professor Denis Hollier. Her dissertation, “‘S’inscrire au drame du monde’: Récits de soi à l’épreuve du siècle,” examines a series of formally innovative autobiographical projects in twentieth-century French prose, focusing on the relationship between biographical and historical temporalities in the work of Blaise Cendrars, Michel Leiris, Claude Simon and Annie Ernaux.
After receiving her B.A. summa cum laude from Columbia University in 2012 and teaching English for a year in Andalucía, she spent two years in the Sélection internationale program at the École normale supérieure de Paris, completing a Master “Théorie de la littérature” (ENS/Paris IV/EHESS). She wrote her master’s theses on literary representations of the Spanish Civil War.
Emelyn has published several articles on Claude Simon. She is also active as a translator. Her co-translation with Ariadne Lih of the 1936 classic of ethnomusicology Origine des instruments de musique by André Schaeffner is forthcoming with Routledge.
Research and teaching interests include twentieth-century French literature, autobiography and history, hermeneutics, history of forms, Québécois literature, and contemporary French-language fiction.
Education
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., École normale supérieure de Paris; M.Phil., New York University
Ph.D. student in French
PhD student in French
Education :
B.A., Dartmouth College
Research Interests :
17th century political philosophy and theatre, Richelieu and the transformation of the state ; early 19th century military studies; historiography and myth creation.
nsm419@nyu.edu
ttm261@nyu.edu
Sharif graduated from the University of Virginia (UVA) receiving his B.A. in both French and Psychology, as well as a business certificate with honors from the McIntire Business Institute in 2016. In addition, he later graduated with a M.A. in French Literature in 2017 from UVA. Sharif successfully completed four summer study abroad programs in Paris and Lyon, France, as well as in Rabat, Morocco. Furthermore, he completed an internship at the National School of Public Health in Rabat, Morocco and a diplomatic internship at the Consulate General of France in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include: migration patterns between France and North Africa, secularism (laïcité) and its influence on policy, questions surrounding French national identity, and the Global South. He has previously written about the perception of the “Other” vis-à-vis both Algeria and France within a colonial framework. His goal is to deemphasize the binary between French and Francophone studies, and in doing so, ultimately trace France’s global reach through civilization, colonialism, and its Empire.
Education
M.A.; M.Phil. (French literature), New York University
B.A. (foreign languages), Austin Peay State University
Research interests
Early modern literature and thought (French and Latin); 16th-century medical writing; Eco-criticism; Renaissance lexicography and philology; medieval thought, especially medicine and its reception; classical reception broadly
mn3030@nyu.edu
Education:
BA/MA, Miami University
Research Interests:
Gender, temporality, the body, the voice, the Other, the production of sensation and the senses, and space, as well as all the societal frameworks that limit and define them.
Ph.D. candidate in French
PhD Student in French
kap580@nyu.edu
Education:
B.A., Fordham University
Research Interests:
20th century literature, French and Francophone film, literary theory and philosophy, feminism, questions of alterity and empathy.
cr3173@nyu.edu
Education:
M.A. in Creative Writing, Université du Québec à Montréal
B.A. Literary Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal
Research Interests:
Vulnerability, precarity, precariousness, enunciation, voice, subjectivity, notion of “self”, risk in literature, I-written texts, ethics of care, parrêsia, contemporary poetry, essay, notion of crisis, 21 st century literature, Quebec literature, France literature.
Ph.D. student in French
PhD Student in French
cs5233@nyu.edu
Education
B.A./B.M. University of Hartford/Hartt School of Music
M.A. Freie Universität Berlin
M.A. École normale supérieure (Ulm)
PhD Candidate
Fellow of the Knowledge Alphabets and the Digital Theory Humanities Laboratories, Center for the Humanities
Thesis project: "Unforeseen Supplements - Bernard Stiegler and the Digital Transformation"
Education
M.Phil. (French Literature, Thought, and Culture), New York University
M.A. (Philosophy), New School for Social Research
Teaching and Research Interests
Philosophy of Technology, Modern and Contemporary French Literature and Philosophy, Aesthetics, Phenomenology, Media Studies, Psychoanalysis, Poetics
Research Interests
Transmedial representations of abnormal bodies, 19th-21st centuries (literature, cinema, performance); history of freak shows; reverse discourse (reversing/reclaiming stigma); disability studies; feminist and queer theory.
jls1187@nyu.edu
shs9924@nyu.edu
Education
B.A., Bucknell University
M.A., The University of Illinois
Research Interests:
Poverty and gender studies in 19 th -Century literature.
Ph.D. student in French
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scb9274@nyu.edu
Education
B.A., Carleton College (BA in French, BA in Computer Science)
Research Interests:
Renaissance literature, imagery of violence especially in relation to the body.
Ph.D. student in French
em4794@nyu.edu
Education
B.A., Classe préparatoire au Grandes Écoles (Hypokhâgne-Khâgne), Lycée Henri IV, Paris
M.P.A., Policy stream Cultural Policy and Management / History, Sciences Po Paris
M.A., Arts, literature, languages, EHESS, Paris
Research Interests:
History of science, Environmental Humanities, Philosophy of ecology, Microbial ecology,
Symbiosis, Poetics of the scientific genres, Narratives and aesthetics of the Anthropocene
Education :
B.A., Arts, Literature and Languages — Institut Catholique de Paris — 2015-2018.
M.A., Literature, Philology, Linguistics — Sorbonne Université — 2018-2021.
French Teaching Assistant — Vassar College — 2019-2020.
Research interests :
Knowledge impositions and the mechanisms of categorizations. Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies.
Translations & Permeabilities in and between disciplines, arts, music and poetry, languages…
Alejandra Mena
am12539@nyu.edu
Chayma Drira
cd3023@nyu.edu
