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Academic Year 2023-2024
Department Chair
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Joseph Johnson
Assistant Professor
joseph.johnson@georgetown.edu
Tenure-Line Faculty

Jennifer Boum Make
Assistant Professor
Caribbean and Mediterranean studies; 20th and 21st-century comparative literature; ethics
jb2899@georgetown.edu

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

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

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

Susanna Lee
Department Chair
Professor
19th-century; novel; crime; theory; ethics; religion; comparative literature
susanna.lee@georgetown.edu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erin Twohig
Associate Professor
ekt12@georgetown.edu

Paul J Young
Associate Professor
18th-century French literature; 18th-century French women writers; the libertine novel; architecture
pjy@georgetown.edu
Full-Time Non-Tenure-Line Faculty

Amandine Andrade
Associate Teaching Professor
Advanced Level
aa1437@georgetown.edu
Boutheina Bridaa
Associate Teaching Professor
Topics in Oral Proficiency and Business French
bb804@georgetown.edu

Stella J Cohen-Scali
Assistant Teaching Professor
Introductory and Intermediate Levels
cohenscs@georgetown.edu

Aaron Emmitte
Associate Teaching Professor
Introductory Level
ace55@georgetown.edu

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

Iris Smorodinsky
Teaching Professor
Intermediate Level
is227@georgetown.edu

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

Guillaume Daumas
Lecturer
Advanced Level
gd465@georgetown.edu
Nezha Erradi
Lecturer
ne136@georgetown.edu

Peter Alfons Janssens
Lecturer
Introductory Level
paj6@georgetown.edu
S. Ameneh Madjlessi
Lecturer
sm3049@georgetown.edu