About
Over the years, I have taught in multiple institutions of higher education in the Detroit metropolitan area. As such, I have had the opportunity to build many courses at all proficiency levels including online classes in which I have fostered a culturally responsive and inclusive classroom environment. I am delighted to be part of this department and I hope to continue sharing my enthusiasm for French and Francophone languages and cultures with students while helping them develop a critical eye via the exploration of interdisciplinary subjects and connections between cultures, literatures, and languages. My goal is that students achieve a better understanding and greater awareness of the world around them. I hope that they grow as individuals, informed citizens, and active members of the global community who can promote innovation, change, and greater inclusiveness.
Research interests
- Aspects of travel and mobilities, space, place, and dwelling in 20th and 21st century French and Francophone literature;
- Mobilities Studies, Geocriticism, Ecocriticism, and Ecophilosophy in global stories of the 20th and 21st century in French and Francophone literature
- 'Class Transfuge' in the extreme contemporary French and Francophone literature
- Media and Technology in 20th and 21st French and Francophone Literature
- Communicative approaches and methodologies in the in person and online classroom environments; DEI and subtractive teaching practices.
Publications
- « Jeux de déplacements, disparitions et dissimulations dans Les Grandes Blondes et Envoyée spéciale ». L’esprit créateur, spécial issue « Comme une espèce de nécessité physique » with Jean Echenoz, vol. 66, August 2023, pp-51-63.
Other contributions