The Department has an extraordinary placement record, which reflects the amount of support that students receive throughout their career. We offer workshops on applying for fellowships, writing a job letter, putting together a CV, and constituting a dossier. The department also organizes mock job interviews and job talks. A member of the faculty serves as placement officer to coordinate the departmental efforts every year.
2016
Laure Astourian, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Bentley University
Dissertation Title: Outside the Metropolitan Frame: The Nouvelle Vague and the Foreign, 1954-1968
2015
Jacqueline Lerescu, PhD: Outreach and Development Coordinator, Modern Language Association (New York)
Dissertation Title: Writing Against the Reader: Poetry and Readership in France, 1840-1880
Johanna Magin, PhD: Deputy Head, Euro-American Program, Sciences Po (Reims, France)
Dissertation Title: Bodies of Wisdom: Philosophy as Medicine in Montaigne and Pascal
Ana Oancea, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Ohio Wesleyan University
Dissertation Title: The Fate of Invention in Late 19th-Century Literature
Rebecca Sopchick, PhD: Head of Finance and Administration, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (Paris, France)
Dissertation Title: The Radicalization of Discourse during the French Revolution
Alex Virastau, PhD: Lecturer, Columbia University
Dissertation Title: The Invention of Memoirs in Renaissance France
2014
Roderick Cooke, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Florida Atlantic University
Dissertation Title: Aesthetics and Politics in the Dreyfus Affair
Severine Martin, PhD: Resident Director, Columbia University Undergraduate Programs in Paris
Dissertation Title: Out of the Neant into the Everyday: A rediscovery of Mallarme’s Poetics
Eric Matheis, PhD: Lecturer, Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Capital, Value, and Exchange in the Old Occitan and Old French Tenson (including the Partimen and the Jeu-parti)
Alexandra Perisic, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Miami
Dissertation Title: Contesting Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World Economy
Erin Twohig, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Georgetown University
Dissertation Title: The Contentious Classroom: Education in Postcolonial Literature from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
2013
Jason Earle, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Sarah Lawrence College
Dissertation Title: Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Interwar French Literature
Casiana Ionita, PhD: Editor, Penguin Press, UK
Dissertation Title: The Educated Spectator: Cinema and Pedagogy in France, 1909-1930
Cathy Leung, PhD: Adjunct Lecturer, CUNY, College of Staten Island
Dissertation Title: George Sand and Rewriting: The Poetics of Intertextualityin George Sand’s Jacques Cycle
Benjamin Young, PhD: ACLS Public Fellow/Content Development Analyst, JSTOR
Dissertation Title: Eloquence and Music: The “Querelle des Bouffons” in Rhethorical Context
2012
Annelle Curulla, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Williams College
Dissertation Title: Forms of Enclosure: the Convent Playsof the French Revolution
Kirsten Ellicson, PhD: Language Consultant, Paris
Dissertation Title: Collecting as Self-Exploration in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Mehammed Mack, Phd: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Smith College
Dissertation Title: Immigration and Sexual Citizenship: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Contemporary France
2011
Matthew Bridge, PhD, JD ‘13: Lawyer, Special Federal Litigation, Law Department, New York City
Dissertation Title: A monster for our times: Reading Sade across the Centuries
Isabelle Coitoux, MPhil: French Teacher, Francis Parker High School, San Diego,CA
Jonathan Eskew, MPhil: Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services, Seattle WA
Mallika Lecoeur, PhD: Program Coordinator, Columbia Global Center, Paris
Dissertation Title: Conversation and Performance in Seventeenth-CenturyFrench Salon Culture
Sarah-Louise Raillard, PhD: Free Lance Translator
Dissertation Title: Perilous Pedagogies: Femle Education Questionnedin the Epistolary Novels of Rousseau, Laclos, Sade, and Charriere
2010
Olivia Harrison, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Cross-Colonial Poetics: Reading Palestine in Maghrebi Literature
Toby Wykström, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Tulane University
Dissertation Title: Law, Conquest, and Slavery on the French Stage, 1598-1685
2009
Daisy Aaronian, Adjunct French Teacher, Lesley University
Dissertation Title: Simon Goulart and the Calvinist Edition of Montaigne’s Essays 1595
Anne-Catherine Dutoit, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Arizona State University
Dissertation Title: Poetic Propaganda: Aesthetics and Politics in Celine’s “Bagatelles pour un Massacre”
2008
Max Kramer, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Baruch College
Dissertation Title: The Poetry of Inversion: Queer Metaphor in Arthur Rimbaud, Stefan George, and Federico Garcia Lorca
Noura Wedell, PhD: Translator, Editor, Semiotext(e), Adjunct Faculty, Roski School of Art and Design, USC
Dissertation Title: Blinking Space: Andre du Bouchet’s Ecopoeisis
Andrea Thomas, PhD: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Loyola University, Baltimore
Dissertation Title: Lautréamont and the Poetics of Posterity
