Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Susanna Lee

Susanna Lee

Professor | Chair, Department of French and Francophone Studies | FLL Convener
susanna.lee@georgetown.edu

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Jennifer Boum Make

Jennifer Marie Boum Make

Assistant Professor | Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)
Caribbean and Mediterranean studies; 20th and 21st-century comparative literature; ethics
jb2899@georgetown.edu

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Boutheina Bridaa

Associate Teaching Professor
Topics in Oral Proficiency and Business French
bb804@georgetown.edu

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Stella Cohen-Scali

Stella Cohen-Scali

Assistant Teaching Professor
Introductory and Intermediate Levels
cohenscs@georgetown.edu

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Guillaume Daumas

Guillaume Daumas

Adjunct Lecturer
Advanced Level
gd465@georgetown.edu

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Sylvie Durmelat

Sylvie Durmelat

Associate Professor
Postcolonial legacies and their embodiments; food studies; immigration; France and North Africa
sylvie.durmelat@georgetown.edu

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Aaron Emmitte

Aaron Emmitte

Associate Teaching Professor
Introductory Level
ace55@georgetown.edu

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Nezha Erradi

Adjunct Lecturer
ne136@georgetown.edu

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Peter Janssens

Peter Janssens

Adjunct Lecturer
Introductory Level
paj6@georgetown.edu

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Joseph Johnson

Joseph Johnson

Assistant Professor
Medieval literature and philosophy; manuscript studies; psychoanalysis; deconstruction
joseph.johnson@georgetown.edu

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Johann Le Guelte

Johann Le Guelte

Assistant Professor, Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow
johann.le.guelte@georgetown.edu

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Farima Sadigh Mostowfi

Farima Sadigh Mostowfi

Teaching Professor and Director, Persian Program
Topics in Oral Proficiency
fsm7@georgetown.edu

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Anne O'Neil-Henry

Anne O’Neil-Henry

Associate Professor
19th-century French culture; popular literature; the city of Paris; cultural studies; new media studies
ao358@georgetown.edu

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Milena Santoro

Miléna Santoro

Associate Professor
Quebec cinema; indigenous cinema of Canada; French and Francophone women novelists; Quebec literature; Quebec culture; comparative literature (France and Quebec)
milena.santoro@georgetown.edu

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Iris Smorodinsky

Iris Smorodinsky

Teaching Professor
Intermediate Level
is227@georgetown.edu

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Andrew Sobanet

Professor 
20th and 21st-century literature and culture; European history; testimony; mass media
ajs43@georgetown.edu

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Guy Spielmann

Guy Spielmann

Associate Professor
Spectacle; performance; theater; popular culture; language acquisition
spielmag@georgetown.edu

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Pierre Taminiaux

Pierre Taminiaux

Professor
20th-century French literature and visual arts
taminiap@georgetown.edu

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Erin Twohig

Erin Twohig

Associate Professor
ekt12@georgetown.edu

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Alissa Webel

Alissa Webel

Associate Teaching Professor
Intermediate and Advanced Levels
amw6@georgetown.edu

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Paul Young

Paul J. Young

Associate Professor
18th-century French literature; 18th-century French women writers; the libertine novel; architecture
pjy@georgetown.edu

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Faculty Emeriti

Amadou Kone

Amadou Koné

Professor Emeritus
Oral literature; African and French novel; African theater; African culture and history; post-colonial study; comparative literature and culture
konea@georgetown.edu

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Deborah Lesko Baker

Deborah Lesko Baker

Professor and Chair Emerita
Renaissance poetry; poetics; translation
leskobad@georgetown.edu

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Faculty Affiliates

Susan Suleiman

Susan Suleiman

Affiliate Faculty
20th-century French literature and culture; Avant-Garde movements and theories of the Avant-Garde; feminist theory; problems of narrative

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Staff & Staff Affiliates

Ryan Zohar

Ryan Zohar

Library Liaison
ryan.zohar@georgetown.edu

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Saralynn Nege

Saralynn Nege

Department Administrator
sn714@georgetown.edu
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