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Graduate Student List

French Linguistics

Amanda Jo Dalola

2012-2013 Walther Scholar

amanda.dalola@utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.148

Education   

Masters in French Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University

Interests

  historical linguistics, language contact, lab phonetics, loanword phonology, lexicography, Scandinavian languages

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Anne Gaskill

Graduate student

anne@mail.utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.170

Education   

MA, French Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Phonology, Historical Linguistics, Dialectology, Grammaticalization

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Libby Mallonee Gertken

2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow

libmall@yahoo.com  |  HRH 4.128

Education   

PhD Candidate French Linguistics, MA Foreign Language Education, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Sentence Processing, French Syntax

Viola Green

Graduate student

violamakarova@hotmail.com  |  512-471-9447  |  HRH 4.146

Interests

  Second Language Acquisition

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Abigail Mack

Graduate Student

amack@utexas.edu  |  512.471.8682  |  HRH 4.102A

Education   

B.S. in Linguistics & B.A. in French, Truman State University in Kirksville, MO

Interests

  sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology, phonetics/phonology

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Adam McBride

2012-2013 Walther Scholar

adamfmcbride@gmail.com  |  HRH 4.124

Education   

B.A. French Studies, Brigham Young University

Interests

  Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Phonology, Applied Linguistics

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Charles Mignot

Graduate student

charles.mignot@hotmail.com  |  HRH 4.150

Education   

MA Linguistics, University of Paris 13

Interests

  syntax, semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, foreign language pedagogy

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Monique Murphy

Graduate student

monique.murphy@utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.130

Education   

M.A., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  psycholinguistics, phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition

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Jenna Nichols

Graduate student

jennic@utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.110

Education   

BA French and Linguistics, University of Florida

Interests

  Sociolinguistics, phonetics, language contact, bilingualism, North American French

Megan Oprea

Graduate student

Mgoprea@utexas.com  |  HRH 4.140

Education   

MA French, University of Texas

Interests

  Language contact, French/Arabic bilingualism, sociohistorical linguistics, language choice

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Rebekah E Post

Graduate student

re@utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.142

Education   

MA in French Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin

Interests

  French/Arabic language contact, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, code-switching, syntax

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Stephanie Russo

Graduate student

sclrusso@utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.166

Education   

MA in French Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Endangered Romance dialects, Comparative Romance Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Historical Linguistics

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Anna Troyansky

2012-2013 Walther Scholar

anna.troyansky@gmail.com  |  HRH 4.102C

Education   

B.A. in French, Bowdoin College

Interests

  bilingualism, language contact, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, dialectology

French Studies

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Katy Branch

Graduate student

katy.branch@gmail.com  |  512-471-8846  |  HRH 4.106

Education   

MA, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  19th Century French Literature and Culture, Women's and Gender Studies, Representations of Paris in Literature and Film, the Bildungsroman

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Yasmina Fawaz

Graduate student

yazzfawaz@utexas.edu  |  516-471-9866  |  HRH 4.164

Education   

Master of Arts, University of Georgia

Interests

  Francophone Literature, Race and Gender studies, Ecocriticism

Claire C Jones

Graduate student

clairejones@utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.138

Education   

PhD Candidate, French Literature and Culture, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  20th and 21st century Literature, the French Documentary and Short Story, Everyday Studies

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Meredith Lehman

Graduate student

lehman.meredith@gmail.com  |  471-9853  |  HRH 4.152

Education   

MA French Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  19th century literature and visual culture, technology and the arts, word and image, French cinema

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Valérie Masson

Graduate student

valeriemasson11@gmail.com  |  512 471 9865  |  HRH 4.162

Education   

Master of Arts, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  19th century literature and culture

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Anne McCreary

Graduate student

amccreary@mail.utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.116

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Clémence Ozel

Graduate student

clemence.ozel@gmail.com  |  512-471-8805  |   HRH 4.104

Education   

Maîtrise in Anglophone Literature and Culture, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
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Clare Perry

Graduate student

clare.perry@gmail.com  |  HRH 4.168

Interests

  Theory of the Novel, influences of Horace, the long 17th century

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Sarah Lube Roe

Graduate student

sarah.lube@gmail.com  |  4718964  |  HRH 4.114

Education   

M.A. in French Literature, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Interests

  17th Century French Theater, French theater and adaptations across the centuries, Women and Gender Studies

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Nicholas Spinelli

Graduate student

nick.spinelli@att.net  |  415-699-4814  |  HRH 4.102A

Education   

M.A. French Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  19th Century French, Womens and Gender Studies, Economic Change and Cultural Expression

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Ryan Swankie

Graduate student

swank1@utexas.edu  |  512-4718566  |  HRH 4.136

Education   

Masters of Arts / Master 2, Arizona State University / Paris XII

Interests

  18th & 19th Century Literature specializing in érotisme, revolution, and névrose diabolique

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Jocelyn Wright

2012-2013 Walther Scholar

jocelyn.wright@utexas.edu  |  512-471-8771  |  HRH 4.102C

Education   

BA in French Studies & History, Rice University

Interests

  Immigration, 20th & 21st Century Literature

Italian Studies

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Paola D'Amora

Graduate student

pdamora@utexas.edu  |  512 475 6334  |  HRH 4.172

Education   

Laurea in Lettere Moderne, Università degli Studi di Perugia

Interests

  Contemporary Italian Literature, Post World War II Italian Film, P. P. Pasolini

Melissa Demos

2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow

m.demos@utexas.edu  |  PCL 5.541

Education   

MA, University of Pittsburgh (Italian Language and Literature); BA, California State University at Chico (Humanities),

Interests

  Renaissance and baroque art history and literature, text/image relationships, Italian national identity

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Elizabeth Florea

Graduate Student

eflorea@utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.158

Education   

M.A. - Italian Studies, Middlebury College

Interests

  Medieval and Italian Renaissance cultural history, women writers, travel literature and gender studies.

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Alessio Maria Giudice

Graduate student

alegiud@hotmail.it  |  471-8628  |  HRH 4.154

Education   

MA World Cultures and Literatures, University of Houston

Interests

  Medieval history and literature with particular focus in Dante Alighieri

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Altina Hoti

Graduate student

401-924-4771  |  HRH 4.176

Interests

  Film, nationalism and identity in Italy. Interaction between mass media and language acquisition. Modern history of Italian language. Italian dialects. Romance languages.

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Stephanie Hotz

Graduate Student

shotz87@gmail.com  |  512-465-6393  |  HRH 4.178

Education   

B.A. in Italian Studies, B.S. in Nutritional Sciences - Dietetics, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Interests

  Contemporary Italian Literature, Post War Italian Cinema, Gender Studies

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Beatrice Giuseppina Mabrey

Graduate Student

bmabrey@gmail.com  |  HRH 4.174

Education   

Master of Arts in Italian Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Contemporary Italian Literature

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Ettore Marchetti

Graduate student

ettore@utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.158

Interests

  Contemporary Italian linguistics. Language and mass-media. Language and Italian Cinema

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Matthew Rabatin

2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow

rabatin@utexas.edu  |  PCL 5.541

Education   

Master of Arts, University of Pittsburgh

Interests

  20th century and Contemporary Italian literature, Literature of the Resistance, Literary theory, Sicilian literature, Italian cinema, Queer Studies,

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Patrick Vilim

Graduate student

vilim@utexas.edu  |  512-475-9461  |  HRH 4.182

Education   

STB Theology, Università Gregoriana, Rome, ITALY, MA Pastoral Ministry, Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas

Interests

  Late Medieval & Renaissance Cultural History, Italian Identity & Nationalism, Italian Cinema

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