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Research Clusters
Deparment of French and Italian Research Clusters
Popular & Material Cultures Across Times & Spaces
- Theories of daily life, fashion, consumption, distinction, and esthetics
- Comics—bandes dessinées (BD)
- Graffiti, street art, urban material-visual culture
- 18th-century French culture, writing, and philosophy
- Manuscript and early printed book production
- Professors Flinn, Heller, Hoffmann, Joyce, Liu, Mullins, Toth, Willging, 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 & Current
- Mediterranean studies
- Southern Italy
- Race and migration in contemporary France
- Italy and the Pacific
- Francophone African diasporas
- The Age of Discovery
- French emigrants during the Revolution
- Theories of space
- Sea narratives
- Transatlantic histories, crossings, and displacements
- Empire, decolonization, and diaspora
- Professors Combs-Schilling, Flinn, Heller, Hoffmann, Joyce, Liu, Toth
- OSU Resources: Global Mobility Project Migration Studies Working Group
- GIS in Comparative Cultural Studies, Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
Performance & Screen Studies
- Movement and ideas: dance, performance, theatre, the body, and language
- Ephemera and sub-/ counter-cultural performance
- Media history and archaeology
- Film and media studies
- Trauma and medicine in film and dance
- 20th and 21st-century Haitian and Caribbean writing
- Professors Flinn, Joyce, Liu, Mullins, Renga, Toth
- 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
French & Francophone Writing Now
Second Language Acquisition
Sexuality & Gender
- LBGTQ+ studies, queer theory
- Global and transnational gender studies
- Body studies
- Gendered voices in French- and Italian-language writing, performance, media and comics
- Professors Flinn, Heller, Joyce, 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
Boundary Crossing in Medieval & Early-Modern 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
- Representations of alterity during the Age of Great Discovery
- Professors Combs-Schilling, Heller, Hoffmann
- 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
- Literary and cultural histories of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana
- Francophone Louisiana writing and culture
- Haiti and global Haitian studies
- Creole languages and creolization
- Professors Flinn, Hoffmann, Joyce, Toth, Willging, Wong
- Resources: Laval Program, Bourguignon collection, The Americas Before 1900 Working Group
- GIS in Comparative Literature, Literacy Studies
- Grad Minor in Comparative Cultural Studies
