Lecturer and Coordinator of the First-Year French Language Program
Teaching
Daniel Hoffmann has taught French language and literature courses at UC Berkeley since 2016. He is the coordinator of the first-year language program, as well as the program director of the department's annual summer abroad program in Paris. He is currently a faculty advisor at the UC Center for Teaching & Learning.
In 2021, for his work during the pandemic, he received the "Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Award" from the...
Senior Lecturer, Director of The Lower Division, Coordinator of the Second-Year French Language Program
Vesna Rodic (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008) is the Director of The Lower Division as well as the coordinator of the second-year French language program. She serves as a Faculty Advisor at UC Berkeley's Center for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Rodic is the Faculty recipient of the Chancellor's Sustainability Award (2023) for her work in curricular innovation, teaching, and instructor training. In 2024, she has been awarded the campus Faculty Fellows Award.
Dr. Rodic's research and teaching interests include: language pedagogy; second language acquisition theory;...
Maya is a scholar of film and media with a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from Northwestern University. Her book, Alice Diop (under review, BFI Press), examines how Diop's film aesthetics, long duration, close framing, and representational opacity, function as a mode of political and ethical engagement, arguing that her documentaries and debut fiction film Saint Omer (2022) reorient French cinema's imaginary toward the diasporic communities of the Parisian banlieue. Her broader research recovers the...
Since completing her Ph.D. in 2016, Margot has been a lecturer in the French department at UC Berkeley where she teaches a wide range of courses and materials. As a Berkeley Language Center fellow, Margot has developed curricula for lower division French language courses. She is a recipient of the campus-wide Teaching Effectiveness Award.
Office Hours: Mondays 12-1pm; and Thursdays 12-1pm in person (4216 Dwinelle Hall). Please note: additional office hours on zoom or in person are available upon request
Claire Tourmen is a French researcher in adult learning and she has been teaching French language and culture (1rst and 2nd years + French For Politics and Translation) at UC Berkeley for almost 5 years now. She is from Angers (Vallée de la Loire), and has been living in California since 2013 with her husband and their little girl. She has a passion for film photography (with her old Rolleiflex), cooking - especially pâtisserie -, reading, writing fiction and hiking.
