Guillaume Ansart
Professor, French and Italian
- gansart@iu.edu
- (812) 855-9608
- GA 3137
Research Interests
18th-century literature and culture; the novel and political theory
Faculty
Marco Arnaudo
Interim Program Director, Italian (FA 2025)
Professor, French and Italian
- marnaudo@iu.edu
- (812) 855-1088
- GA 3166
Research Interests
20th- and 21st-century popular culture; game studies; military studies; Baroque and early modern literature in Italy
Hall Bjørnstad
Chair and Professor, French and Italian
- hallbjor@iu.edu
- (812) 855-6596
- GA 3176
Research Interests
Early modern literature and culture, emphasis on the relationship between literature, politics, and philosophy in the seventeenth century
Vincent Bouchard
Professor, French and Italian
- vbouchar@iu.edu
- (812) 856-2549
- GA 3157
Research Interests
Francophone cultures in Africa and North America; media (literature, cinema, telephone, radio, internet) and cultural studies (popular cultures, reception)
Brett Bowles
Program Director, Fr/Francophone Studies
Associate Professor, French and Italian
Adjunct Associate Professor, History
Adjunct Associate Professor, The Media School
- bowlesb@iu.edu
- (812) 855-7438
- GA 3154
Research Interests
20th-century French cultural history; film studies; cinema, society, and politics during the Popular Front and Vichy; literature and ideology
Alison Calhoun
Associate Professor, French and Italian
Adjunct Associate Professor, Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance
- abcalhou@iu.edu
- (812) 856-6731
- GA 3159
Research Interests
Early modern French drama (theater, opera, ballet, festivals); Intellectual and cultural history of the French Renaissance; relationship between music and literature
Erin Candeias
Director of Language lnstruction, French
Lecturer, French and Italian
- estigers@iu.edu
- (812) 855-1254
- GA 3158
Andrea Ciccarelli
Provost Professor, French and Italian
- aciccare@iu.edu
- (812) 855-6029
- GA 3147
Research Interests
Poetry, narrative, theatre, Romanticism and Modernism, migration issues, media and popular culture
Laurent Dekydtspotter
Professor, French and Italian
Professor, Second Language Studies
Chair, Second Language Studies
Adjunct Professor, Linguistics
Adjunct Professor, Germanic Studies
- ldekydts@iu.edu
- (812) 855-2221
- GA 3149
Research Interests
Development of interpretive knowledge: phrasal semantics, lexical semantics and grammatically computed pragmatic inferences; sentence processing: information integration in L2 processing
Elizabeth Hebbard
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
- ehebbard@iu.edu
- (812) 855-6806
- GA 3141
Research Interests
Medieval French and Occitan literature, particularly lyric and romance; medieval manuscripts and the history of the book; and the reception of the Middle Ages
Jeffrey Lamontagne
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Linguistics
- jlamonta@iu.edu
- 812-855-6324
- GA 3148
Research Interests
Language variation and change, with a greater focus on the phonetics and phonology of Laurentian French (also called Canadian French, Quebec French, or Québécois)
Eric MacPhail
Professor, French and Italian
Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature
- macphai@iu.edu
- (812) 855-8948
- GA 3153
Research Interests
Renaissance literature; humanism; rhetoric
Oana Panaïté
Director of the Center of Excellence of the French Embassy at IU
Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies, French and Italian
Adjunct Faculty, Comparative Literature
Affiliate Faculty, African Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Affiliate Faculty, European Studies
- opanaite@iu.edu
- (812) 855-1134
- GA 3135
Research Interests
Literary history; theory and aesthetics; French and francophone fiction; contemporary studies; writing and politics
Filippo Petricca
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
- fipetr@iu.edu
- 812-855-7958
- GA 3162
Research Interests
Relationship between literature and economics; Medieval Italian literature, especially in connection to Romance literatures; Dante studies, medieval lyric, and medieval and early modern chivalric literature; Periodization, especially the definition of Middle Ages and Modernity
Kevin Rottet
Director of Graduate Studies, FRIT
Program Director, French Linguistics
Professor, French and Italian
Adjunct Professor, Linguistics
Adjunct Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
- krottet@iu.edu
- (812) 855-6164
- GA 3161
Research Interests
Language contact (Louisiana French, Welsh, Breton); lexicology and lexicography; pidgins and creoles; endangered languages
Massimo Scalabrini
Program Director - On sabbatical leave, Fall 2025; Prof. Marco Arnaudo will serve as interim Program Director
Professor, French and Italian
- mscalabr@iu.edu
- (812) 855-8044
- GA 3164
Research Interests
Renaissance and early modern literature and culture, with emphases on humanism, epic, comedy, macaronic and pastoral
Karolina Serafin
Director of Language Instruction, Italian
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Italian
Teaching Professor, French and Italian
- kserafin@iu.edu
- (812) 855-1089
- GA 3168
Research Interests
Second language acquisition, teaching culture in foreign language classroom, online and hybrid learning/teaching models
Nicolas Valazza
Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies, French
Professor, French and Italian
- nvalazza@iu.edu
- (812) 855-5764
- GA 3163
Research Interests
19th-century French literature; relationship between painting and literature; poetry; history of the book; clandestine literature;
Barbara Vance
Director of Undergraduate Studies, French. Will be away AY 2025-26 as Director of our Program in Aix-en-Provence. Nicolas Valazza will serve as interim Director.
Associate Professor, French and Italian
Associate Professor, Linguistics
- bvance@iu.edu
- (812) 855-2702
- GA 3171
Research Interests
French linguistics; syntax; history of French (including Occitan)
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