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French and Francophone Studies
Faculty & Staff
Brinda J. Mehta Brinda J. Mehta
Professor, French & Francophone Studies
Program Head

At Mills since 1992

Office: Mills Hall 326
Phone: 510.430.2212
Email: mehta@mills.edu
View Faculty's CV

Faculty Office Hours
Days
Time
Room
M
W
2:30 - 3:45
2:30 - 4:00
MH 326

Fall 2008 Schedule
Days Time Description Room
M 09:00AM-09:50AM FREN 003
Intermediate French III
STR 26
M 01:00PM-02:15PM FREN 168
Franc Wmn's Wrtng of Caribbean
STR 26
M 11:00AM-12:15PM LET 142
French & Francophone Wmn Wrtrs
STR 26
T 08:30AM-09:20AM FREN 003
Intermediate French III
STR 26
W 09:00AM-09:50AM FREN 003
Intermediate French III
STR 26
W 01:00PM-02:15PM FREN 168
Franc Wmn's Wrtng of Caribbean
STR 26
W 11:00AM-12:15PM LET 142
French & Francophone Wmn Wrtrs
STR 26
TH 08:30AM-09:20AM FREN 003
Intermediate French III
STR 26
TBA TBA FREN 191
Senior Thesis
TBA


Education
  • PhD in French Literature, Brown University, Providence, RI
  • MA in French Literature with Distinction, University of Bombay, Bombay, India
  • BA in French Literature with Honor, Elphinstone College, Bombay, India
Courses Taught
  • FREN 003: Intermediate French III
  • FREN 004: Intermediate French IV
  • FREN 102: Introduction to Francophone Literature
  • FREN 162: Aesthetics of the Body in Literature
  • FREN 168: Francophone Caribbean Women
  • FREN 170: Orientalism in the Novel
  • FREN 191: Senior Thesis
  • LET 111: Theorizing Cultural Studies in the Americas
  • LET 115: African and Caribbean Literatures
  • LET 142: French and Francophone Women Writers
  • LET 149: Post-Colonial Conditions: Contemporary Women's Writings from Africa
  • LET 150: Reconfiguring South Asian Diasporic Identity
  • LET 155: Reading War in Postcolonial Literature from North Africa and the Middle East
Professional Interests

Post-colonial African and Caribbean literatures, cultural and diaspora studies, transnational feminist theory, Francophone studies, post-colonial theory, psychoanalytic literary theory, women and Islam, Indo-Caribbean writers, Arab and Muslim writers from North Africa and the Middle East, 19th-century French realist fiction

Program Information
Overview

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Requirements

Courses
Full Course List

French & Francophone Studies Course List

FREN 001 - FREN 192

Schedule of Courses for
the Current Semester


Activities & Resources
Awards

Peer Tutoring



Contact Information

P: 510.430.2212
F: 510.430.3314
E: french@mills.edu