The French Center of Excellence and Department of French & Italian are pleased to announce the first speaker for the Spring 2025 lecture series: Professor Morgane Cadieu.
Professor Cadieu holds a PhD from Cornell University and specializes in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone prose, experimental fiction, randomness in literature and theory, materialist philosophies (especially atomism and feminism), spaces studies, narratives of social emancipation and migration, and the aesthetics of trains.
The Cadieu lecture will take place on Monday, February 3 from 4:00pm-5:00pm in Thompson Library, Multipurpose Room 165. Light refreshments will be served after the talk. To register, click here or call 614-247-4105.
If you are interested in pre-ordering Professor Cadieu's most recent publication, On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature (The University of Chicago Press, 2024), please click here.
This event is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian’s French Center of Excellence, which receives funding from French Cultural Services in the US and the Consulate General of France in Chicago. This series is also supported by the following departments and centers at Ohio State African American & African Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, Germanic Languages & Literatures, English, the Humanities Institute, and the Center for Languages, Literatures, & Cultures.
In December of 2020, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States selected the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University to join its prestigious network of Centers of Excellence. OSU’s Center of Excellence has the goal of promoting French and Francophone culture in the Midwest and beyond.
