Marjorie Salvodon

Associate Professor of French

Office: Fenton 551

Voicemail: (617) 573-8582

Professor Salvodon holds a B.A. in French from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University. She teaches a wide range of courses in French language as well as courses in Francophone Culture, Cinema, and Literature. Her academic interests include literature from across the francophone world (Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Maghreb, and Europe), cultural studies (especially in relation to ethnicity, gender, and sexuality), and literary translation. Professor Salvodon has published scholarly articles and book reviews in a variety of publications: edited volumes, literary magazines, peer-reviewed academic journals, film catalogues, and conference proceedings. She is co-translator (with Jehanne-Marie Gavarini) of Tomboy (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), co-editor (with Sandra Barriales-Bouche) of Zoom in, Zoom out: Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), and author of Fictions of Childhood: The Roots of Identity in Contemporary French Narratives (Lexington Books, 2008). She is currently co-writing an article with Jehanne-Marie Gavarini on translation, collaboration, and feminism and working on a book about Haiti on mother tongue, motherloss, and (m)other country.

Two French-language papers she reads regularly are Le Nouvelliste (Haiti) and Le Monde (France). For information on many French-related matters, go to http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html.

In addition to studying at the Suffolk-Dakar campus in Senegal, students may study in the French immersion summer program at CAVILAM. Students may also study for a semester or a year at the Cours de Civilisation Française at the Sorbonne.