French Graduate Students & Teaching Assistants
Tolga Akgun |
Gabriel Hourcade |
Abram Jones Abram's undergraduate majors were French and linguistics (BA UC Davis 2003). He holds an MA in linguistic anthropology from CSU East Bay (2006) and is currently in his fourth year of PhD work in French
linguistics. Abram's coursework has centered around SLA, phonology/phonetics and morphology, and the history and development of French. Areas of interest include language contact, Creole formation, and
dialectology. |
Kristen Kennedy Kristen holds a B.A. in Economics from UCLA and an M.B.A. in Finance from Saint Mary's College. Before coming to UC Davis, Kristen worked as a financial analyst for PeopleSoft in Pleasanton,
California and Sydney, Australia. Kristen is pursuing a Ph.D. in French Linguistics; her interests include second language acquisition, theoretical linguistics and language evolution, and the history of
French. |
Ellen LeBlond-Schrader Ellen received a B.A. in French Language and Literature from Whitman College in 1999, a M.A. in French from Middlebury College in 2001, a Maîtrise from Paris III: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle
in 2002. This quarter, she is teaching second year French. Her specialty is late twentieth-century poetry and her current project focuses on language, subjectivity and recurrent motifs in the poetry of
Francis Ponge. |
Annabel Lee |
Laurence Lemaire |
Elisabeth Lore Elisabeth Lore holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University. Here at UC Davis, she is currently working on a double PhD in Comparative
Literature and French, specializing in French, Caribbean and Multilingual Literatures. Her current Comparative Literature research project explores the role language, literature and music play in racial
reconciliation between descendants of those involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Her French Department research project attempts to trace the process in which information about the Atlantic Slave Trade
was disseminated among the French population between the 18th and 19th centuries and how that process is reflected in the literature of those times. |
Megan McMullan Megan McMullan has a BA in French and International Affairs and an MA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Nevada, Reno (2006). She currently teaches 1st year French and is pursuing a PhD at UC Davis, where her interests include 17th century theater, baroque and classical aesthetics, performance theory, and gender. |
Jennifer McSpadden |
Tihtena Mekonnen |
Catherine Miskow Catherine holds a B.A. in French and Japanese from the University of San Francisco, an MA in French from Stanford and another MA in Japanese from San Francisco State. Her research focuses on representations of the foreigner and foreign lands, particularly the representation of Japan and the Far East in 19th and early 20th century French literature. Other interests include Orientalism, the Parisian novel and second language acquisition. |
Anca Popescu |
Bridget Pumphrey
Bridget was graduated from Laurel School in Shaker Heights, OH and Miami University in Oxford, OH, earning a B.A. in French Literature and then continuing with Master's-level work for two years there. She
is making progress towards her doctorate in French Literature, with an emphasis on Early Modern sensibilities and poverty's impact thereupon. |
Andrea Rudiak |
Brody Smith |
Adeline Xiong |
