Dr. Sarah Mosher
Assistant Professor of French
Ph.D. French and Francophone Studies The University of Arizona
M.A. French Studies The Pennsylvania State University
B.A. Modern Languages and Business Administration Pacific University

Dr. Mosher has been an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of North Dakota since August of 2008. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Shooting The Canon: Feminine Autobiographical Voices of the French-Speaking World," is a comparative, interdisciplinary project that explores textual and cinematographic autobiographical narratives spanning from the early 1900s to the present. Focused on female-authored autobiographical texts and films, her research examines both canonical and marginal female authors and filmmakers from France, Northern Africa, and the Caribbean within the sociopolitical and cultural context of the colonial period, and the current postcolonial era. She has recently published an article entitled "Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon as Fictitious Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction." Current research projects include the study of the cinematographic productions of the Franco-Algerian filmmaker Yamina Benguigui and the analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's collaborative work entitled Djamila Boupacha.

A specialist in women's autobiographical narratives, she regularly offers courses in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone literatures, films, and cultures. Recent courses have focused on the autobiographical narratives of the French-speaking Arab world, artistic crossroads in Franco-Algerian literature, Caribbean women's writing, and immigration in France. In addition, she has a B.A. in Business and Marketing and teaches French 340 "Business French." Professor Mosher has lived in Paris, Lyon, and Switzerland for a total of four years including a year of study at the Sorbonne. Before completing her doctorate in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Arizona, she taught English at the Université Lumière Lyon II in Lyon, France for two years.