French

The main objective of this project is to report on the state of research and safeguarding of Amazigh intangible cultural heritage.

This grant supports the creation of a collaborative working group to foster interdisciplinary conversation among UVA faculty working on West Africa.

Eren Jaye’s doctoral project considers theatres of the region from both a folkloric and ecological perspective.

This project wishes to shed light on authors who have been purposefully forgotten from literary history (Suzanne Giroust de Morency, Elizabeth Guénard, Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse), who emancipated their expression on sexuality from the libertine novel and created a genre of their own.

This semester, Profs. Cheryl Krueger and Ari Blatt, both in the Department of French, are co-facilitating a new, 1-credit reading seminar.

Nnenna Onyima studies the representation of spirits and bodies in African narratives. Her work interrogates how African creatives depict the conviction held by most African nations in the existence of the spirit world and the physical world.

I am currently working on documentary films from within and outside of France that address trauma suffered by migrants and asylum seekers in Europe.

My research focuses on French nuclear cinema and aims to reframe the way we think about nuclear movies.

This one-day symposium brings together UVA faculty, outside scholars of French politics from the US and France, a journalist, and a current French political advisor, to examine the significance of the French elections through the lens of Europe today.

My dissertation focuses on an empathetic reading of narratives about abortion by French women writers and filmmakers.