People
Academic Year 2023-2024
Department Chair
Director of Undergraduate Studies
![Joseph Johnson](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/joe_johnson3-199x300.jpeg)
Joseph Johnson
Assistant Professor
joseph.johnson@georgetown.edu
Tenure-Line Faculty
![Jennifer Boum Make](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/07/IMG-3492.jpg)
Jennifer Boum Make
Assistant Professor
Caribbean and Mediterranean studies; 20th and 21st-century comparative literature; ethics
jb2899@georgetown.edu
![Durmelat, Sylvie](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/Durmelat.jpg)
Sylvie Durmelat
Associate Professor
Postcolonial legacies and their embodiments; food studies; immigration; France and North Africa
sylvie.durmelat@georgetown.edu
![Joseph R. Johnson](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/joe_johnson3.jpeg)
Joseph Johnson
Assistant Professor
Medieval literature and philosophy; manuscript studies; psychoanalysis; deconstruction
joseph.johnson@georgetown.edu
![Kone, Amadou](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/Kone.jpg)
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](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/07/20190723_Susanna-Lee-1089-1-200x300.jpg)
Susanna Lee
Department Chair
Professor
19th-century; novel; crime; theory; ethics; religion; comparative literature
susanna.lee@georgetown.edu
![Johann Le Guelte](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2024/05/Le-Guelte-208x300.jpg)
Johann Le Guelte
Assistant Professor, Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow
johann.le.guelte@georgetown.edu
![Lesko Baker, Deborah](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/Baker.jpg)
Deborah Lesko Baker
Professor and Chair Emerita
Renaissance poetry; poetics; translation
leskobad@georgetown.edu
![Anne O'Neil-Henry](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2024/05/ONeil-Henry-pref-726x1024.jpg)
Anne O’Neil-Henry
Associate Professor
19th-century French culture; popular literature; the city of Paris; cultural studies; new media studies
ao358@georgetown.edu
![Milena Santoro](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/09/MilenaSantoroEDIT-4.jpg)
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 in front of brick building](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2024/07/Sobanet-2024-scaled-e1721159370951-199x300.jpg)
Andrew Sobanet
Professor
20th and 21st-century literature and culture; European history; testimony; mass media
ajs43@georgetown.edu
![Spielmann, Guy](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/Spielmann.jpg)
Guy Spielmann
Associate Professor
Spectacle; performance; theater; popular culture; language acquisition
spielmag@georgetown.edu
![Susan Suleiman](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2020/02/Susan-Suleiman-768x1024.jpg)
Susan Suleiman
Affiliate Faculty
20th-century French literature and culture; Avant-Garde movements and theories of the Avant-Garde; feminist theory; problems of narrative
![Taminiaux, Pierre](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/Taminiaux.jpg)
Pierre Taminiaux
Professor
20th-century French literature and visual arts
taminiap@georgetown.edu
![Erin Twohig](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/20140930_faculty_0135.jpg)
Erin Twohig
Associate Professor
ekt12@georgetown.edu
![Young, Paul](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/Young.jpg)
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
![Andrade, Amandine](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/Andrade.jpg)
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
![Cohen-Scali](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/20130926-Faculty_0317-2.jpg)
Stella J Cohen-Scali
Assistant Teaching Professor
Introductory and Intermediate Levels
cohenscs@georgetown.edu
![Aaron Emmitte](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/emmitte_headshot.jpg)
Aaron Emmitte
Associate Teaching Professor
Introductory Level
ace55@georgetown.edu
![Farima Sadigh Mostowfi](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/20131002_faculty_0730.jpg)
Farima Sadigh Mostowfi
Associate Teaching Professor and Director, Persian Program
Topics in Oral Proficiency
fsm7@georgetown.edu
![Smorodinsky](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/Smorodinsky.jpg)
Iris Smorodinsky
Teaching Professor
Intermediate Level
is227@georgetown.edu
![Webel, Alissa](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/Webel.jpg)
Alissa Webel
Associate Teaching Professor
Intermediate and Advanced Levels
amw6@georgetown.edu
Lecturers
![Daumas](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/20150917-Faculty_0158.jpg)
Guillaume Daumas
Lecturer
Advanced Level
gd465@georgetown.edu
Nezha Erradi
Lecturer
ne136@georgetown.edu
![Janssens, Peter](https://french.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/160/2019/06/Janssens.jpg)
Peter Alfons Janssens
Lecturer
Introductory Level
paj6@georgetown.edu
S. Ameneh Madjlessi
Lecturer
sm3049@georgetown.edu