Department Culture
2008 Commencement
The French Department congratulates all of its graduates! This year we have 33 students receiving a B.A. in French.
B.A. Recipients
| Sona Arutyunyan |
Laure Astourian |
| Nicole Therese Bauer |
Vera Bersudskaya |
| Kate Elizabeth Bokan-Smith |
Precious Brown |
| Melissa Cantu |
Guadalupe Nallely Cervantes |
| Onika M. Chambers |
Shannon B. Dekoornbolt |
| Lark Elizabeth Ellsworth |
Melissa R. Fall |
| Tapa Fall |
Basil Llewellyn David Glew-Galloway |
| Teresa Villa Gomez |
Aroon Kumar Jhamb |
| John J. Judge |
Michael Jason Krimper |
| Jeremiah Leung |
Thomas Andrew Mack |
| Marta Markosyan |
Jennifer Anne Maurice |
| Erica L. Nuñez |
François Ollivier |
| Rachel Ilana Padnick |
Sparsha Saha |
| Amanda Leigh Scharpf |
Gabrielle Scott |
| Jacquelyn Spear |
Corine Odile Laure St. Ofle |
| Marlee Tichenor |
Tiffany Wong |
| Yang Xia |
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Special congratulations go to Corine Odile Laure St. Ofle, B.A. class of 2008, who is this year’s recipient of the Departmental Citation for Outstanding Achievement as an Undergraduate in French.
M.A. Recipients
6 students received an M.A. in French this year:
Marlon Jones
David Alain Rafoni
Jonathon Repinecz
Anna Skrzypczynska
Travis Wilds
Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell
Each of these students will be continuing in the doctoral component of our graduate program in the fall semester.
Ph.D. Recipients
5 students received a Ph.D. in French this year.
Hélène Bilis completed her dissertation -- "Passing on: French Tragedy and Dynastic Succession 1687-1750" -- under the direction of Professor Nicholas Paige. She will join the faculty at Wellesley College in the fall.
Tina Chen completed her dissertation -- "Reason and Femininity in the Age of Enlightenment" -- under the direction of Professor Nicholas Paige. She will be teaching in Paris for both St. John's University Study Abroad Program and for Parson's School of Design.
Miranda Kentfield completed her dissertation -- "Abstraction, Transformation, Consciousness: Character and Generic Innovation in the Novels of Victor Hugo" -- under the direction of Professor Suzanne Guerlac. She will be going on the job market for the first time in the fall.
David Pettersen completed his dissertation -- "Affective Realisms: The Politics of Aesthecticization in 1930's French Literature and Cinema" -- under the direction of Professor Suzanne Guerlac. He will be joining the faculty at Davidson College in the fall.
Vesna Rodic-Etkin completed her dissertation -- "Lyric Modalities of the Third French Republic, From Paul Valéry to La Nouvelle Revue Française" -- under the direction of Professor Suzanne Guerlac. She will be teaching in the History of Art Department here at UC Berkeley in the fall.
1 student received a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures this year.
Janet Sedlar completed her dissertation -- "The Construction of Humor in Spanish and French Language Comic Strips: A Sociolinguistic Perspective" -- under the direction of Professor Rick Kern. She has accepted a position in the fall as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Chicago.
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