UL Lafayette - MA & PhD Francophone Studies

08/22/2026

Bienvenue (back) et merci à tout le monde qui est venu à notre "meet and greet" mercredi ! Bienvenue au programme Karla, Naouel, Nihel, Sophie et Tristan - bonne rentrée à tous !

Crédit photo: Mars Ramsey (merci!)

08/16/2026

07/17/2026

Excellent travail, Jonathan !

07/15/2026

Bravo, Jonathan Mayers (doctoral fellow in Francophone Studies), who is performing at the opening ceremony of Lomé poetry festival in Togo!

PROGRAMME DE LA CÉRÉMONIE D'OUVERTURE DU FESTIVAL LA SAISON INTERNATIONALE DE POESIE DE LOMÉ (SIP-LOMÉ).

07/11/2026

Félicitations, Dr. Emma Harlet ! Dr. Harlet successfully defended her dissertation on 19th-century Louisiana literature as part of a cotutelle (joint-supervision) doctoral program between University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Université Bordeaux Montaigne. The co-directors Stéphanie Durrans (UBM) and Nathan Rabalais (ULL) sincerely thanks the committee members and congratulate Emma for her admirable work!
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Graduate School University of Louisiana at Lafayette College of Liberal Arts

06/05/2026

Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends Dr. David Barry, former professor of Francophone studies and an important part of our doctoral program’s development as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts.

Allen David Barry was born March 9, 1944, in Fullerton, CA, the son of Ray Lorentzen Barry and Esther Elizabeth Mathews. He had two sisters, Dorothy and Diana, and one brother, Robert. David was raised in Southern California and attended UCLA, where he began his freshman year aspiring to be

05/18/2026

05/18/2026

Congratulations to all of our graduates! We had a great time at graduation!
(not pictured, Rodrigo Munhoz, MA in French)
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Graduate School

05/13/2026

Congratulations to Jonathan Mayers, PhD student and doctoral fellow in our program, for this publication that just came out. His book chapter ("radbwa ê tiré tik-layé: opossum Pulling Off the Ticks") is part of a new collected volume from Routledge on Naming and Being: Knowledges, Identities, and Cultural Politics

Bokou konten pou résévwa mô kopi a Naming and Being (Nommé é ét). Gran mèsi a Gwyneria Isaac, Stanisław Kordasiewicz, Sylvia Ngo, Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, é Kyunney Takasaeva pou yê travay pendan kék lannin pasé é pou inkli mò dan projé-çila. Vouzòt ka trouvé mô tèks apré lidentité dan shapit 5 "radbwa ê tiré tik-layé (radbwa Pulling Off the Ticks)" dan liv-la é sî plas latwal (lyin enba).

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032629407

Super happy to receive my copy of Naming and Being. Big thanks to Gwyneria Isaac, Stanisław Kordasiewicz, Sylvia Ngo, Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, and Kyunney Takasaeva for their work over the past few years and for including me in this project. Y'all can find my text about identity in chapter 5 "radbwa ê tiré tik-layé (radbwa Pulling Off the Ticks)" of the book as well as online (link above).

05/13/2026

Félicitations, María Gilbert, pour sa présentation lors du colloque Women in French tenu récemment à James Madison University. Sa présentation s'intitulait : "Censure, résistance et politiques de la visibilité"
https://www.jmu.edu/languages/events/women-in-french-conference/index.shtml