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Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of French
Assistant to the Chair 2008-09

Dr. Pereszlényi-Pintér teaches French language at all levels, and her areas of special interest include French literature of the pre-modern period (Medieval, Renaissance, & 17th century), French Civilization, French Film, and French for Business & the Professions. She has presented papers at numerous national as well as international Conferences, and her current research interest is “The Cat in French Literature and Culture.”

Before coming to John Carroll, she was a faculty member at several other institutions, including Denison University, The Ohio State University, Slippery Rock University, and the College of Wooster. She earned her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and her M.A. in French at the Ohio State University, and her B.A. in French & Pedagogy from Cleveland State University. She also studied at the Institut de Touraine (Tours) and with the Bryn Mawr Program (Avignon) in France. She was born in Austria and emigrated to the USA with her Hungarian parents.

Fall 2008

  • Office: O'Malley Center 124
  • Office Hours: M/W/F 10-11 & 2-3, other times by appointment available, walk-ins also welcome any time I am not busy
  • Phone: (216) 397-4723
  • E-Mail: MPERESZLENYI@JCU.EDU
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Marvin N. Richards III, Ph.D.,  
Associate Professor of French

Dr. Richards has been a member of the French section of John Carroll University since 1993. He earned his B.A. in French from Louisiana State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, in addition to a Certificat en français, langue seconde from Laval University in Quebec, Canada. He has taught at all levels in the French section, in addition to a number of courses of French literature in English translation. He was a co-founder and co-coordinator of the Modern European Studies concentration at John Caroll in addition to an early organizer of John Carroll study abroad programs in Quebec. (See also: The Center for Global Education ) His teaching and research interests include: nineteenth-century French literature and culture, French and francophone poetry and theater, surrealism, and, more recently, the smaller francophone communities of North America, including New England and Louisiana. A long-standing member of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association and the American Council for Quebec Studies, he was also the book review editor for Quebec Studies from 1999-2004.

Fall 2008

Hélène N. Sanko, Ph.D.,  
Professor of French

Dr. Hélène N. Sanko teaches all levels of French. Her special interests are in the areas of French and Francophone languages, literatures and cultures which she expressed in several of her most recent articles: “Le Traité du Jardinage de Jacques Boyceau (1560-1635) et l’esthétique du XVIIe siècle.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (2005) ; “La Martinique, nostalgie et splendeur dans Le Temps des madras de Françoise Ega.” French Review (2003); “Langston Hughes (1902-1967) in Paris d’après son autobiographie The Big Sea (1940).” (see Harlem Renaissance) Association pour la recherche francophone, Commission Amérique. http://www.recherchefrancophone.net (2002) ; “La religion dans l'Evangéline de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, des Acadiens de Nouvelle-Ecosse aux Cajuns de Louisiane." Romance Languages Annual (2000).

Fall 2008

   

PART-TIME FRENCH FACULTY

 

Darlene Nelson, M.A.,
Lecturer in French

Fall 2008

 

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