French and Francophone Studies

Events

Creative Writing Workshop with Michael Roch

November 25, 2024

Cherpack Lounge
Table Francophone

November 25, 2024

Group Study Room, Williams Cafe (Williams P4)
Table Francophone

December 2, 2024

Group Study Room, Williams Cafe (Williams P4)

A Conversation with Award-Winning Patrick Chamoiseau

This Fall's Bowman Lecture was given - to a great turnout - by the award-winning Martinican author, playwright, scenarist, and philosopher Patrick...
Congratulations Dr. Wendy Pfeffer

Congratulations! We are proud to announce that visiting scholar Dr. Wendy Pfeffer was named a membre d’honneur of the Association Internationale d’...
Paule Carbonnel awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Paule Carbonnel has been awarded an SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year for her research on the geographical,...

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Congratulations! Paule Carbonnel's Successful Dissertation Defense

We are delighted to share that Paule Carbonnel successfully defended her dissertation, titled “To the End(s) of the Earth with Jules Verne (and...
Congratulations! Lauriane Guihard's Successful Dissertation Defense

We are delighted to share that Lauriane Guihard successfully defended her dissertation, titled "'Peut-on encore entendre de toi, troupe, quelque voix...
Congratulations! Nicole Ferrari's Successful Dissertation Defense

We are delighted to share that Nicole Ferrari successfully defended her dissertation, titled "Skepticism, the Human, and Republics in Alessandro...

Congratulations to our 2024 Prize Winners!

Congratulations to our 2024 French and Francophone Studies award winners: Amelie Warneryd (Cherpack Prize, Honors Thesis Prize), Arthur Wei (Cherpack Prize), and Xiaoyang (Sunny) Hua (French Forum Essay Prize)!
French NSO Placement/Exemption Exams

Placement exams for incoming students will be administered during New Student Orientation in late August. For more info: https://www.figs.sas.upenn.edu/placement-exams/. The NSO website will also have these details.
Clifton C. Cherpack Award 2023

Congratulations to the 2023 awardees of the Clifton C. Cherpack Prize in French Studies: Margaret Gladieux (winner) and Julia Dawson (honorable mention)!