French Connections

ALAIN-PHILIPPE DURAND is Dorrance Dean of the College of Humanities and Professor of French and Applied Intercultural Arts Research at the University of Arizona. Durand is also Affiliated Faculty in Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, LGBT Studies, and Public and Applied Humanities. His publications and courses deal with French and Latin American literature and culture, French cinema, hip-hop studies, and the kind of popular culture that characterizes the extreme contemporary.

Carine Bourget is professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of French & Italian, and affiliated with the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Arizona. Her areas of research include Islam in Francophone Literature and Culture, and Islam in France. Her second book (The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent) was selected by Choice as a 2010 Outstanding Academic Title.

Dr. Denis Provencher is a Professor of French and Francophone studies in the Department of French and Italian and is affiliate faculty in Anthropology, Gender and Women’s Studies, LGBT Studies, Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching.  His publications include over 30 essays and two books: Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France (2007) and Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations (2017). He also recently co-edited the volume Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations: Non-Places, Affect, Temporalities (2021).