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Ben Beitler

Doctoral Candidate
beitlerben@berkeley.edu

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I study environmental expertise in French and francophone cultures. In my dissertation project, “The Politics of Environmental Storytelling: An Ecocritical Approach,” I examine films and literature that engage with conflicts of expertise in situations of environmental catastrophe. As a teacher of French, I am interested in exploring pedagogies that develop students’ symbolic competence.