Tessa Archambault
Credentials: PhD Candidate in French
Email: tarchambault@wisc.edu
Address:
716 Van Hise Hall
- Fall 2025 Office Hours
- Please contact for appointment
Education
- Graduate Certificate, Culture, History and Environment
- M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison
- B.A., University of Minnesota
Research Interests
My work engages with ecological imaginaries in 20th/21st century French novels and film, focusing on works by Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras, Agnès Varda, and Marie Darrieussecq.
Courses Taught
- French 101: First Semester French (Head TA)
- French 102: Second Semester French
- French 203: Third Semester French (Head TA)
- French 204: Fourth Semester French
- French 288: Doctors without Borders, Teaching Assistant
- French 467: Aspects of Contemporary French Literature, Guest Instructor
Conference Presentations
- Atomic Sustainability in Marie Darrieussecq’s Le Pays. Hermes Summer School, Degrowth and Sustainability. Utrecht, Netherlands. June 2024.
- Illusory Independence and Atomic Parallels in Marie Darrieusecq’s Le Pays. 20th and 21st French and Francophone International Studies Colloquium, Independence. Philadelphia, PA. February, 2024.
- Rural Tradition and Urban Resistance: Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I. PAMLA – Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Portland, Oregon. October, 2023.
- The Ecological Commons: Marguerite Duras’s The Sea Wall. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) biennial conference, Reclaiming the Commons, July 2023, Portland, Oregon. July 2023.
- Echoes of the Desert in Agnès Varda’s La Pointe Courte. 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, The Desert, Tucson, Arizona. April 2023.
- Against Earth and Sea: Marguerite Duras’s Un Barrage contre le Pacifique” Graduate Association for French and Italian Students Symposium, Living the Land. Madison, Wisconsin, March 2023.
- Sylvia Wynter’s “Epistemic Disobedience” in Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête. MMLA- Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, WI. November 2021.
Publications
- “Addressing Enrollment Decline: An Innovative Strategy in French and Global Health at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.” ALD Bulletin, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2025), co-authored with Gilles Bousquet