Courses Taught

                                       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)