French and Arabic Faculty
Chair
Professor
Email: harrisod@grinnell.edu
Professor David Harrison received a B.A. in French from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the literature and culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France. He is the principal translator and co-editor...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: brunauso@grinnell.edu
Sophie Brunau-Zaragoza is a specialist of contemporary French literatures and cultures (France/Antilles), specifically in the field of environmental humanities. She is completing her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies from Brown University. She has an M.A. in French Studies from Michigan State...
Assistant Professor
Email: galbrait@grinnell.edu
Hadley Galbraith is a Francophone postcolonial scholar specializing in 20th and 21st century writing, film, and performance from the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. She also works on artists from Sub-Saharan Africa. In her research, she is interested in the intersections of memory, the body, and...
Assistant Professor
Email: glewweel@grinnell.edu
Eleanor Glewwe earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 2019. Her research interests lie in phonology and phonetics. She uses artificial grammar learning experiments to test whether people are biased toward learning phonetically natural phonological patterns. More recently, she has become...
Professor
Emerita
Email: grossj@grinnell.edu
Jan Gross is Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages, emerita. She earned a B.A. and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages at the University of Michigan and an M.A. from Ohio State. Her teaching and research focus on how theatre and dialogue enable us to āimagine the other.ā Her work on Algerian-born...
Professor
Emerita
Email: ireland@grinnell.edu
Susan Ireland is Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature. She grew up in England, and taught in France for eight years before coming to the United States in 1982. She has a B.A. in French and Latin from the University of Bristol (England), a "maƮtrise" in Applied Linguistics from...
Professor
Email: moisan@grinnell.edu
Professor Philippe Moisan is from Brittany. He holds a D.E.U.G. in Literature and Visual Arts, and a Licence in Literature from the University of Caen (Normandy). He also has a M.A. and a PhD from Wahington University in Saint Louis. His research and teaching focus on fiction on the 19th and the...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: obiedata@grinnell.edu
A. Z. Obiedat received his Ph.D. in Arab-Islamic Philosophy and Science from McGill University in MontrƩal, Canada, in 2012. In 2004 he received his MA from the same institution, in Arabic Discourse Analysis in Islamic Law. For sixteen years, he taught in a fulltime capacity 78 classes in Arabic...
Assistant Professor
Email: tricoire@grinnell.edu
Professor Marion Tricoire (Ph.D., Emory University) is a teacher and scholar of African Literature and of the Francophone world. Her research interests include Sub-Saharan African literature, Francophone studies, urban humanities, postcolonial literatures, migration and diaspora studies, and...
Associate Professor
Email: youssef@grinnell.edu
Mervat Youssef is Associate Professor of Arabic. She holds a B.S. from the University of Helwan in Cairo, an M.S. from South Dakota State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Her research interests include media constructions of identity, especially in relation to news coverage of...