Faculty and Staff
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Philippe Dubois (at Bucknell since 1998)
Ph.D. Ohio State
Teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century French literature. He is working on the articulation of the relationship between texts and images ranging from poems and novels to films and advertisement.
pdubois@bucknell.edu |
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Nathalie Dupont (at Bucknell since 2007)
Ph.D. Duke University
Specializes in 20th and 21st-century French literature, with an emphasis on contemporary poetry and poetics. Teaches courses on French literature and cinema, engaging with topics such as cultural and political views on society, representation and performance of identity and the body, violence and marginality. Her current book project examines the relationship between negativity and failures in contemporary poetry and the status of the subject, with a focus on cultural, intellectual and corporal deviances. Other teaching and research interests include literary criticism, experimental approaches, Quebec literature, and film studies.
(570) 577-3781 |
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Mélanie Giraud (Visiting Professor)
(570) 577-1096 |
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Renée Gosson (at Bucknell since 2000)
Ph.D. Wisconsin at Madison
Teaches the literature and culture of the French West Indies, Quebec, and 20th-century France. Her documentary film on the island of Martinique combines French West Indian writers’ environmental and ideological concerns with actual footage of the island, showing the symptoms of cultural devastation (satellite dishes, advertisements, supermarkets, regression of the mangrove swamp, etc.)
(570) 577-1748 |
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Angèle Kingué (at Bucknell since 1988)
Ph.D. Penn State
Teaches language courses, foreign language pedagogy, and Francophone African literature and culture Supervises French teaching assistants. Directs the Bucknell en France program. She has published several articles, one novel, and two books of short stories for adolescents.
(570) 577-1351 |
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Candice Nicolas (Visiting Professor)
(570) 577-1418 |
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John Westbrook (at Bucknell since 1999)
Ph.D. New York University
Specializes in post-revolutionary French intellectual history and culture; teaches courses on 19th and 20th-century society and culture. He is working on the French avant-garde and social science between the world wars.
(570) 577-1022 |
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Ruth Ann Robenolt
Academic Assistant Foreign Language Programs and Spanish (200 Vaughan Lit)
Ruth Robenolt joined the Foreign Language Program staff in July of 2000. Ruth received her Associates Degree in Sociology in May 1999 from Susquehanna University. She has twenty-three years of experience at Bucknell University. Scheduling classes, budget coordination, and general office management are among her job assignments in the French Department, Foreign Language Programs.
(570) 577-1353 - Fax: 570-577-1948 |
