2025 Promotion and Tenure Awardees

Laura Balladur
Promoted to Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies
Terminal degree and institution: Ph.D., Duke University
Scholarly and creative work: Translation in theory and practice, French and Francophone cinema, the relationship between literature and science, critical theory, and the embodied mind. Currently, she is working on a creative nonfiction project that blends personal memoir with the history and present-day realities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, focusing on both its colonial past and its contemporary context.