ANNA NORRIS
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We are happy to introduce the presenters of the Anna Norris French Film Festival 2025
Dr. Anne VIolin-Wigent
Dr. Anne VIolin-Wigent
Associate professor of French
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Dr. Anne VIolin-Wigent is an Associate professor of French. Her previous research analyzed regional variations of the French language in France and the leveling effect of Standard French on regional accents and vocabulary. Her research currently focuses on the effectiveness of explicit instruction in the acquisition of a second language and, in particular, on the development of pronunciation.
Dr. Timothée Valentin
Assistant Professor of French
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Dr. Timothée Valentin Timothée Valentin holds a MA and a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from Penn State University, where he has taught a wide range of classes from basic language to upper-level thematic courses, in both French and English. His book project considers Guadeloupean women ‘s political activism from the rise of a workers’ movement in Guadeloupe in the 1890s to 1946, 1946, when two women, Eugénie Éboué-Tell and Gerty Archimède, were elected to represent Guadeloupe at the French National Assembly. In January 2022, he also edited and published an 1899 serial novel, La fiancée du maître d’école by Sully Lara, a Guadeloupean writer and then schoolteacher.
Caroline Nwafor
Caroline Nwafor
MA student in French and Francophone Studies
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Caroline Nwafor is a French and Francophone Studies graduate student at Michigan State University, where she also serves as a French teaching assistant. Originally from Nigeria, she earned her BA in French and German from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and completed her MA in the same fields at Mississippi State University, where she also participated in the Preparing Future Faculty program. She volunteered to lead the presentation of Kirikou and the Sorceress at the festival, a film she holds dear from childhood. Her academic and personal journey reflects a deep commitment to language, culture, and education. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, migration, and educational leadership. She is also a certified MBTI psychometric practitioner with strong leadership skills. When she’s not immersed in academia or film, she enjoys cooking, traveling, and making new friends.
Dr. Salah Hassan
Associate Professor of English and core faculty in the Muslim Studies Program and in Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities
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In addition to his position in English, Salah Hassan is core faculty in the Muslim Studies Program and in Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities at MSU. His areas of research and teaching include postcolonial literature and theory, mid-20th century anticolonial intellectual movements, literatures of empire, and Arab and Muslim North American studies. His research projects have recently been oriented around the representation of Arabs and Muslims in the media and also projects of Arab and Muslim self-representation. He is the founder of the Muslim Subjects website and blog (muslimsubjects.org), and coordinator of the following projects on that site: “Migrations of Islam,” “American Halal,” and “Journal/Islam.”
Dr. Lynn Wolff
Associate Professor of German
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Lynn L. Wolff’s teaching and research interests encompass modern German literature and culture, in particular the relationship between literature and historiography, the representation of the Holocaust, theories of translation, practices of intermediality, and concepts of world literature. These interests are reflected in her first monograph W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics: Literature as Historiography (Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter 2014), which explores the emergence of a new hybrid discourse of literature as historiography while illuminating the interplay of aesthetics, epistemology, and ethics in twentieth-century literature in German. It is the first monograph to examine Sebald’s œuvre in its entirety, including unpublished archival material held at the Archive of German Literature in Marbach and the Harvard Houghton Library.
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