Tags: French

My name is Evan Blazowski, and I'm from Tampa, Florida!  I'm in my first year of the M.A French program after receiving my B.A in French Studies from UGA in May '25. During my undergrad at UGA, I studied French history and culture, with a particular interest in French as a medium for cultural and socio-economic exchange. I completed a senior thesis that examined and analyzed Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc's principles of French Gothic…
I am a medieval French specialist by training who focuses on Old French poetry and prose of the 12th and 13th centuries, or what might be considered the beginning of French as a literary language during a period where Latin remained the language of education and the church. I am also interested in the history of the book and the ways that the material conditions of textual transmission have affected reading practices over time, generating…
Maureen DeNino specializes in nineteenth-century French literature and culture. Her research explores the relationship between French culture, literature, and the press, with a focus on daily newspapers, illustrated weeklies, and comparative colonialisms across Europe. She has published articles on Tahiti and its place in the French cultural imagination, and on trans-European movement of images of the pétroleuse, the storied women arsonists…
My name is Alina Linchevska, and I am from Kyiv, Ukraine. I graduated from Kyiv National Linguistic University with a B.A. in Humanities, specializing in French language, literature, and translation. I studied 19th and 20th-century French literature and explored the psychology in Sidonie-Gabriel Colette’s novels, especially "Claudine’s House." I also examined French colloquial language and its unique features. For my senior thesis, I researched…