French Department Faculty
ANDREW H. CLARK anclark@fordham.edu
- B.A. Amherst College, Ph.D. Princeton University
- Specializes in 17th- and 18th-century French Literature, Art, and Medicine
- Author of Diderot’s Part and Speaking of Music (with musicologist Keith Chapin)
ISAIE DOUGNON idougnon@fordham.edu
- B.A. and M.A. University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Ph.D. University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Specializes in labor, migration, rural development, civil service, life cycle, higher education and academic freedom
- Research examines migration, work, and lifestyle in West Africa, off of his experiences in anthropology of development, migration, and local knowledge in Mali. He is also the coordinator of the Water and Migration Project.
AUDREY EVRARD aevrard@fordham.edu
- B.A. AND M.A. Université de Nancy 2, M.A. and Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Specializes in French and Francophone film and screen studies, documentary filmmaking, Contemporary Critical Theory (labor, work, precarity, ethics of care), and 20th and 21st century French literature
- Has published multiple articles on documentary cinema, recently wrote Precarious Sociality, Ethics, and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century
KARI EVANSON kevanson@fordham.edu
- B.A. University of Tulsa, M.A. Columbia University, D.E.A. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Ph.D. New York University
- Specializes in juvenile delinquency and the press in interwar France and how the press contributes to the formation of social causes..
- Interested in literary journalism, reportage, and themes of imprisonment.
SARA HANABURGH shanaburgh@fordham.edu
- B.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst, M.Phil. City University of New York, Ph.D. City University of New York
- Specializes in Francophone African literature and film, specifically narratives that address the social, political and economic impacts of the current phase of global capitalism, and translation (with several publications)
- Interested in the adaptation of African literature and oral narratives to the screen and the role of translation in this process
JOSHUA JORDAN jjordan28@fordham.edu
- B.A. University of California— Berkeley, D.E.A. Université de Paris-IV La Sorbonne, M. Phil. New York University, Ph.D. New York University
- Research focuses on 20th and 21st century French poetry, poetic theory and stylistics, and encounters between literature, politics, and the visual arts and dance.
- Has translated numerous books from French, winning the French Voices Grand Prize for translation in 2020 for translating Isabelle Boni-Claverie’s Trop Noire pour être française.
MICHAEL LATOUR latour@fordham.edu
- M.A. Queens College, CUNY/Université de Paris IV- La Sorbonne
- Before teaching at Fordham, worked at the Ministry of Education in Djibouti, East Africa during a fellowship sponsored by IFESH and USAID.
- While in Djibouti, established a collaboration with the School of Fine Arts to allow training teachers to enroll in workshops in theater, music, and visual arts.
JENNY MEYER jmeyer15@fordham.edu
- B.A. Yale University, M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin— Madison
- Interests include literature of the French and Italian Renaissance, early modern women writers, travel writing and mobility theory
- Research focuses on 16th-century French literature with a specific interest in geography, mobilities, and cosmopolitanism.
BRIAN REILLY breilly17@fordham.edu
- B.A. Dartmouth College, Ph.D. Yale University
- Specializes in Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Contemporary French Thought and Science
- Interests include medieval francophone literature, contemporary French thought, and language teaching. His monograph, Getting the Blues: Vision and Cognition in the Middle Ages explores color in medieval language and literature.
LISE SCHREIER lschreier@fordham.edu
- B.A. and M.A. Université Lyon II, M.A. University of Oregon, Ph.D. New York University
- Specializes in 19th century French literature, Francophone literature, French colonialism, race and racism, and cultural studies
- Studies and writes on gender, race, colonialism, material culture, and cultural violence.
SONIA SEHIL-SCHEINDLIN ssehilscheindlin@fordham.edu
- M.A. in Sociology and Post Graduate Diploma specializing in International development Sorbonne Université
- Has worked in French NGO’s and public institutions advancing social justice, education for all and access to literacy
- Is also a certified professional coach, a translator and a ceramist
- Has taught at Fordham for over 10 years!
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