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Graduate Student in French

Background

From Upstate New York, Kara is a PhD Student and Teaching Fellow in French. She received her BA in French Language and Literature and German Studies from Binghamton University, a state university of New York. Kara has a concentration in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and incorporates a feminist theoretical standpoint in her research. She focuses mainly on contemporary francophone literature and film, especially centering themes of subjugation, patriarchal violence, feminine adolescence, and queer sexualities.