During their final year in the program, our graduate students receive tailored professional coaching designed to help them navigate beyond the PhD.
Yale French Department PhD alumni now work in a wide variety of institutions throughout the United States and beyond. They include numerous leaders in French and Francophone studies. The list below includes some of our graduates who have earned their PhDs from the Yale Department of French and entered faculty jobs in recent years.
2024
Walid Bouchakour
Visiting Assistant Professor, Francophone Studies, Trinity College
Abigail Fields
Assistant Professor, French, University of Kansas
2023
Madison Mainwaring
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Notre Dame
2022
Tadas Bugnevicius
Director of Undergraduate Studies & Lecturer in French, Institute for Comparative Literature & Society, Columbia University (formerly Lecturer, Film & Media Studies Program, Yale University)
Doyle Calhoun
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Cambridge University (formerly Assistant Professor of Language & Culture Studies, Trinity College)
2020
Ian Curtis
Assistant Professor of French, Kenyon College
Shanna Jean-Baptiste
Assistant Professor of French, Rutgers University
Imane Terhmina
Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies, Cornell University
2019
Jennifer Carr
Visiting Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Wellesley College (formerly Instructor of French in the Department of Modern Languages & Classics, University of Alabama)
2018
Robyn Pront
Visiting Assistant Professor in French at Connecticut College
Usha Rungoo
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; formerly Assistant Professor of French, Language & Cultures Department, SUNY Purchase
2017
Elizabeth Hebbard
Assistant Professor of French at Indiana University
Laura Jensen
French Instructor, the Marlborough School (formerly Lecturer in French Studies at Smith College)
2016
Nathalie Batraville
Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Women’s Studies, Concordia University; formerly Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth Society of Fellows
Colin Foss
Associate Professor of French, Austin College
Annabel Kim
Department Chair & Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University; formerly Provost’s Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University
K. Adele Okoli
Associate Professor of French, African & African American Studies, & Gender Studies at the University of Central Arkansas; formerly Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University
Annie de Saussure
Assistant Professor of French, Lafayette College; formerly Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Francophone Studies at Bowdoin College
2015
Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche
Assistant Professor of French, Brandeis University
Benjamin Hoffmann
Professor of French, The Ohio State University
2014
Julia Elsky
Assistant Professor of French, Loyola University Chicago; formerly visiting Assistant Professor at MIT
2013
Chapman Wing
Assistant Professor of French, CUNY-Staten Island
Mary Anne Lewis Cusato
Professor, World Languages and Cultures, Ohio Wesleyan University
2011
Erin Ponnou-Delafon
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Illinois State University
Anne Linton
Professor of French, San Francisco State University
2008
Laure Marcellesi
Assistant Professor of French, Dartmouth College
Alexandra Gueydan
Department Chair & Associate Professor, Modern Languages & Literatures, Swarthmore College
Brian Reilly
Associate Professor of French, Fordham University
2006
Ryan Poynter
Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, New York University
2004
Bettina Lerner
Deputy Executive Officer & Associate Professor, Comparative Literature & French, CUNY Graduate Center
Joseph Mai
Department Chair & Professor of French, Clemson University