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Nicolas Idier Lecture

The French Center of Excellence was pleased to host author Nicolas Idier, this year's Jules Verne Resident in Creative Writing, for a lecture experience entitled "Why Was I Chinese?" This event…

Nicolas Idier

Announcing the AY25 Jules Verne Creative Writing Resident - Nicolas Idier

Nicolas Idier

Everywhere you go, from Paris to Los Angeles, from Dakar to La Réunion, you will always find some cheap, colorful and strangely useless…

Black Seine, White Paris

French Center of Excellence Lecture Series - Kévi Donat "Black Seine, White Paris"

The French Center of Excellence, Department of French & Italian, and OSU Newark were delighted to host Kévi Donat on Tuesday, September 19 for his lecture in this year's French Center of…

French Press

French Press, The Ohio State University’s New Literary Show!

Ohio State University has just launched this summer a new online series called French Press, presented by Associate Professor of French and creative writer Benjamin Hoffmann.

The program…

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College of Arts & Sciences Designated Professor of French & Francophone Literature & Director of the Center of Excellence
Chair, Department of French & Italian and Associate Professor of French
Associate Professor of French