Faculty

Meet the French Faculty

Caesar Akuetey
Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures-French
Ph.D., Université de Franche-Comté, 1989
"My research focuses on General Linguistics, notably on the construction of my mother tongue; the Ewe language (a language spoken in Ghana, Benin and Nigeria)."

Bruce Davis
Burkhardt Distinguished Chair in Modern Languages-French
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1983
"My current research focuses on issues of gentrification and urban planning in Paris."

Schahrazede Longou
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures-French, Resident Director, Besancon Program
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2009
"I analyze the thematic, stylistic, and rhetorical strategies in three novels: N'zid, Surtout ne te retourne pas and La Jeune fille et la mère."