French Language House Advisor, Associate Teaching Professor of French & Francophone Studies
Deborah Lee-Ferrand, Associate Teaching Professor of French Studies, received her M.A and Ph.D. in French Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research investigates the parallels between food and literary productions that are particularly dominant in the role that France has played in the domination of Francophone culinary and literary art productions. She examines how chefs, authors, and journalists fight back this French hegemony to reclaim and redefine their cultural inheritance.
Her research and teaching interests revolve around food studies, gender and sex, cinema and medieval, twentieth and twenty-first century francophone literatures and cultures. At William and Mary, her teaching ranges from language classes to courses on writing, culture, literature, and cinema.
Deborah Lee-Ferrand, Associate Teaching Professor of French Studies, received her M.A and Ph.D. in French Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research investigates the parallels between food and literary productions that are particularly dominant in the role that France has played in the domination of Francophone culinary and literary art productions. She examines how chefs, authors, and journalists fight back this French hegemony to reclaim and redefine their cultural inheritance.
Her research and teaching interests revolve around food studies, gender and sex, cinema and medieval, twentieth and twenty-first century francophone literatures and cultures. At William and Mary, her teaching ranges from language classes to courses on writing, culture, literature, and cinema.