Graduate Courses
– Metropolis: Global Cities in Text and Film
– French African, Caribbean and Diasporic Cinema
– Nature, Cataclysms and Solutions: French Ecological Thought in Writing and Film
– Ghosts of French Colonization: Revolutions and their Aftermaths
(Africa/Maghreb/Asia/Caribbean) in conjunction with George Mason University)
– Documenting French Decolonization in Film
– Contemporary French Cinema
– French Language and Quebec Studies (co-taught with Dr. Djaouida Hamdani at
UQAM, Montreal), ODU study abroad course (May, 2015)
– Multicultural Quebecois Voices in Fiction and Film
– The French New Wave
– France’s Legacy of Decolonization: The Maghreb, West Africa, Asia
– Francophone Civilization: The Decolonized Eye in Film, Theater and Fiction
– France and the Francophone World: Love, Revolt, Independence
– Through the Director’s Lens: Modernity and its Discontents
– Dangerous Liaisons: French-American Relations 1776-2008
– French Presidential Power and Policy
– Empires of Signs: Franco-Asian Encounters
– The Culture of Engagement: French Political Thought
– France in the Age of Globalization (Ph.D Seminar)
– France and the New Europe (Ph.D. Seminar)
– Nineteenth-Century French Literature
– War and Memory
– Crime Fiction and Film
– Eighteenth-Century French Literature : From Enlightenment to Revolution
– Twentieth-Century French Literature
– Paris-Berlin: Crucible of European Ideas
– History of French Cinema
– Paris/Ailleurs: The City, The Country and Beyond in French
and Francophone Cinema
Undergraduate Courses
– Passport to Conversation: Communicative Competency International
– French Communicative Competency- Writing and Reading
– Politics in French Film and Fiction
– America Through French Eyes
– French for Translators: Practice and Theory
– Reading French for Chassidut I and II (Independent Study)
– Le Français du Tourisme et de l’Hôtellerie (Independent Study)
– Le Français juridique (Independent Study)
– French for Lawyers (Independent Study)
– The Comic Stage: La Comédie de l’Amour/
L’ Amour de la Comédie
– Voix Francophones
– La Nouvelle à travers les âges
– Introduction to French Poetry
– Contemporary France and the Media
– French Literary Forms: Prose
– Business French: Language and Culture
– Understanding World Literature
– Advanced French Composition
– Introduction to French Theatre
– Intermediate French (Fr 201-202)
– Beginning French (Fr 101-102)