Isabelle DeMarte 

Associate Professor
French Language and Literature
Box:30
Phone:(503)768-7426
E-mail: demarte@lclark.edu

French 17th and 18th century literature and culture; Denis Diderot; literary genres; the baroque; fiction and reality, language and knowledge.

 

Molly Robinson Kelly

Associate Professor of French, French Section Head
French Language and Literature
Box: 30
Phone:(503)768-7422
E-mail: mcrkelly@lclark.edu

Old French language and literature, 12th-century romance, Tristan and Yseut, Chrétien de Troyes, place and literature, Albert Cohen.

 

Claudia Nadine

Associate Professor of French with Term
French Language and Literature
Phone:(503)768-7402
E-mail: cnadine@lclark.edu

Nineteenth-century literature, poetry, women writers, critical theory, West African and Caribbean literatures.

 

Marie-Eve Thifault

Instructor of French
Phone:  (503) 768-7424
Email:  mthifault@lclark.edu

Marie-Eve Thifault joined the faculty of Lewis and Clark College as an instructor of French in 2010. She is originally from Montréal, Québec where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Teaching French as a second language from the Université du Québec à Montréal (1999). Marie-Eve has earned her Master’s degree from San Diego State University in French and Francophone Literature (2003) with two specializations: Québec’s literature and Émile Zola.

  

Philippe Brand

Assistant Professor of French
Phone:  (503) 768-7429
E-mail:  pbrand@lclark.edu

Philippe Brand joined the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Lewis & Clark in 2011.  Born in Paris and raised in the US, he received his Ph.D. in French from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2011, with a concentration in contemporary French literature.

Philippe’s research interests range across a variety of topics in twentieth and twenty-first century French and Francophone literature, film, and culture.  He is particularly interested in literary innovation, post-apocalyptic fiction and film, immigration and national identity, and issues of social justice.  He teaches a range of courses on French language and culture and French and Francophone literature.  

 

Natalie Stamper

Visiting Instructor of French
Phone: 503-768-7354
Email: nstamper@lclark.edu

Natalie comes to Lewis and Clark after teaching at various colleges in the Seattle area for over ten years.  She received her Masters in French Language and Literature from the University of Nebraska in 1999, and her interests include the scope of French cinema, West African art and Francophone literature and cultures.

 

Antoine Peter 2012-13

French Language Assistant
Phone: (503)768-7443
E-mail: apeter@lclark.edu

Antoine is presently taking political science courses at Institut d’études politiques de Strasbourg, in Strasbourg, France. Antoine considers himself to be open-minded and dynamic.

Reading, learning new languages, cinema, cuisine and sports activities are some of the interests he likes to pursue in his spare time.

 

Nicole Aas-Rouxparis

Professor Emerita of French
Email:  nicole@lclark.edu