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Brinda J. Mehta
Professor, French & Francophone Studies
Germaine Thompson Professorship in French Studies

At Mills since 1992

Office: Mills Hall 326
Phone: 510.430.2212
Email: mehta@mills.edu
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Faculty Office Hours
Days	Time	Room
M W	10:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 12:00	MH 326

Spring 2012 Schedule
Days	Time	Description	Room
M	01:00PM-02:15PM	FREN 102 Intro to Francophone Lit	STR 26
M	08:30AM-09:50AM	FREN 4/177 Intermediate French IV	STR 26
T	08:30AM-09:20AM	FREN 4/177 Intermediate French IV	STR 26
W	01:00PM-02:15PM	FREN 102 Intro to Francophone Lit	STR 26
W	08:30AM-09:50AM	FREN 4/177 Intermediate French IV	STR 26
TBA	TBA	FREN 192 Senior Thesis	TBA
TBA	TBA	LET 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 center 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 center East, 19th-century French realist fiction

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Contact Information

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