Tessa Archambault

Education

• Graduate Certificate, Culture, History and Environment
• M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison
• B.A., University of Minnesota

Research Interests

20^th and 21^st century French and Francophone film and novel; cultural studies, narratology, ecocriticism, postcolonial ecology, theories of the Anthropocene

Courses Taught

• French 101, 1^st Semester French
• French 102, 2^nd semester French
• French 203, 3^rd semester French
• French 288-Discussion Instructor, Fall 2022 and Fall 2023
• French 467-Guest Instructor, Aspects of Contemporary French Literature

Conference Presentations

• “Gleaning in the City: from Rural Tradition to Urban Resistance in Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I“, PAMLA – Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, October 2023, Portland, Oregon.
• “Rereading the Ecological Commons in Marguerite Duras’s The Sea Wall”, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) biennial conference, “Reclaiming the Commons,” July 2023, Portland, Oregon.
• “Echoes of the Desert across the Landscape in Agnès Varda’s La Pointe Courte,” 20^th and 21^st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, April 2023, Tucson, Arizona.
• “Against Earth and Sea: Ecological Disharmony in Marguerite Duras’s Un Barrage contre le Pacifique,” Graduate Association for French and Italian Students Symposium, March 2023, Madison, Wisconsin.

• “Reading Caliban through Sylvia Wynter’s “Epistemic Disobedience” in Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête, MMLA- Midwest Modern Language Association, November 2021, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• “Narrating Shame in Emmanuel Carrère’s La Moustache and L’Adversaire,” Graduate Association of French and Italian Students Symposium, Spring 2019, Madison, Wisconsin.