Welcome to French and Francophone Studies - A Research Guide to Resources.
This guide is intended to grow as new resources and research tools become available. Your feedback, comments, and suggestions are welcomed. Please send them to me at: dmihram@usc.edu and/or Sophie Lesinska at lesinska@usc.edu
French and Francophone studies are multidisciplinary and require different research strategies depending on the scope and focus of any specific topic. Here you will find multiple resources in support of the teaching, research, and initiatives of our French and Italian Department, our Francophone Research and Resource Center, and our Graduate Program in French and Francophone Studies.
Please note that this guide provides you with an essential overview of key resources for French Studies. Complementary guides, (see box below) aim at focusing on specific areas of learning and research for French Studies.
In addition to this guide please consult the following guides for resources in specific areas of French Studies:
French Field Examination - Research Guide. This guide includes links and resources for you to use as you prepare for the French Field Examination.
French 307: Paris Maymester 2021, Public memory and the Ghosts of History. This course explores "(...) ghostly figures of the past that are left behind, or that emerge, within the cultural spaces of the French République. We will set out not so much to summon or even to search for these ghosts, but rather to develop a critical approach to historical and cultural texts that will prepare us to encounter them, first-hand (...) [and] make sense of these spectral encounters, constructing new meanings around questions of loss, trauma, and political violence."
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