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FRIT graduate scholars will gain a unique degree in French, Francophone, or Italian Studies by exploring their major field across periods, methods, and genres through a set of research clusters. All FRIT graduate students also organize a set of focused courses in and outside the department to earn a Graduate Minor or GIS (Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization).
Screen and Performance Studies
- Film and media studies
- Trauma and medicine in film and dance
- Ephemera and sub-/ counter-cultural performance
- Media history and archaeology
- Movement and ideas: dance, the body, and language
- Professors Renga, Mullins, Toth, Flinn
- OSU Resources: The Film Studies Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, Gateway Film Center, Narrative Medicine Initiative through the Humanities Institute
- GIS in Film Studies, Comparative Cultural Studies, Folklore Studies
- Graduate Minor in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies or Theatre and Performance
Popular and Material Cultures Across Times and Spaces
- Popular music: medieval, modern, rap, Quebec
- Television studies
- Comics—bandes dessinées (BD)
- Graffiti, street art, urban material-visual culture
- Theories of daily life, fashion, consumption, distinction, and esthetics
- Professors Heller, Flinn, Marx-Scouras, Mullins, Renga, Toth, Wong
- OSU Resources: Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, OSU Historic Costume and Textiles Collection
- GIS in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Comparative Cultural Studies, Folklore Studies
Migration Studies—Historic and Current
- Mediterranean studies
- Underrepresented minorities
- Southern Italy
- The Age of Discovery
- French Emigrants During the Revolution
- Theories of Space
- Sea narratives
- Professors Combs-Schilling, Heller, Hoffmann, Flinn, Marx-Scouras, Renga, Toth
- OSU Resources: Global Mobility Project Migration Studies Working Group
- GIS in Comparative Cultural Studies, Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
Boundary Crossings in Medieval & Renaissance France –Provence—Italy
- Merchant poetics and stories
- Medieval French fashion, material culture, daily life
- Troubadours, trobairitz, trouvères, trovatori
- Travel narrative
- Pastoral, exile, and literary edges
- Professors Heller, Combs-Schilling
- OSU Resources: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
- GIS in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
French in the Americas
- Quebecois media, music, writing, culture
- French images of American spaces
- Francophone media
- Intellectual & Literary Dialogues between France and America
- Professors Hoffmann, Willging, Marx-Scouras, Toth, Flinn, Wong
- Resources: Laval Program, Bourguignon collection, The Americas Before 1900 Working Group
- GIS in Comparative Literature, Literacy Studies
- Grad Minor in Comparative Cultural Studies
French & Francophone Writing Now
- The French novel from the World Wars to brand-new publishing
- French creative writing
- Cartoon Studies
- Professors Hoffmann, Willging, Marx-Scouras, Toth, Flinn
- OSU Resources: Project Narrative
- GIS in Comparative Literature, Literacy Studies
- Grad Minor in Comparative Cultural Studies
Second Language Acquisition
- Cognitive, Psychological, Physiological, and Social Aspects of Language Learning (please help!)
- Pedagogy Methods
- Professors Wong, Aski
- OSU Resources: Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Eye-tracking lab
- GIS in Second Language Studies
- GIS in Literacy Studies
- Technology Certification
Sexuality and Gender
- LBGTQ+ studies, Queer theory
- Body Studies
- Gendered voices in French- and Italian-language writing, cinema/ media and comics
- Professors Flinn, Heller, Mullins, Renga, Toth, Willging
- OSU Resources: Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; The Women’s Place
- Graduate Minor in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies ; GIS in Sexuality Studies
