Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
Professor of French and Francophone Studies
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STV Stevenson Hall 203A
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- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Current Courses
FRE 237.001 Critical Readings in French
FRE 111.001 First-Year French (Part I)
FRE 305.001 History of French Civilization
FRE 300.001 Research In French
IDS 121.001 Texts & Contexts: French Cinema: Art, History, Culture
FRE 285.001 Topics In French Language, Literature, And Culture
FRE 213.001 Written Communication in French
Teaching Interests & Areas
French-language literatures, particularly modern and contemporary; French cinema; ethics and existentialism; contemporary France
Research Interests & Areas
20th- and 21st-century French-language literature; French film; religion, secularism, and narrative; ethics; existentialism; World War II, the Occupation, and the Holocaust; contemporary French society and culture
Ph D French
Yale University
M Phil Medieval Studies
Yale University
MA French & Francophone Studies
Bryn Mawr College
BA French & Francophone Studies
Haverford College
Book Review
Review of Jacques Audiard, by Gemma King (Manchester UP, French Film Directors Series, 2021)
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
(2023), 38, Nouvelles Études Francophones
Review of Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
(2023), Journal of Mennonite Studies
Review of Reframing Remembrance: Contemporary French Cinema and the Second World War, by Lisa Harper Campbell (Manchester UP, 2022)
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
(2022), Nouvelles Études Francophones
Review of La France: histoire, société, culture, by Edward Ousselin
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
(2019), 73, French Studies
"L’instruction en famille : une liberté qui inquiète"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
(2017), International Review of Education
Review of Values of Literature
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
(2017), French Studies
Review of Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought, by Damian Catani.
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
(2015), 40, 157-59, French Forum
Review of Cinema for French Conversation: le cinéma en cours de français, 4th ed., by Anne-Christine Rice
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
(2014), 88, 200-01, The French Review
Review of Sylvie Germain: les essais -- un espace transgénérique, ed. Mariska Koopman-Thurlings
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
(2013), 87, 228-29, The French Review
Review of Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, ed. Scott M. Powers
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
(2012), 98, 160-61, Dalhousie French Studies
Book, Chapter
“Beyond Borders: Teaching for Multiplicity in the L2 French Classroom”
Sandra Keller & Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
(2025), Narratives of Non-English L2 Language Teachers, Routledge
“Revendiquer la différence. Perspectives d’expatriés états-uniens qui instruisent en famille en France”
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
(2025), L’instruction en famille en France. Profils, mobiles et pratiques au tournant des années 2020, Presses Universitaires de Rennes
“‘Le récit d’une libération’: Religion et violence dans l’écriture de Salim Bachi.”
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
(2019), 203-216, Salim Bachi, L’Harmattan
"Encountering Others: Reading, Writing, Teaching, Parenting." [A reading of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Marc-Alain Ouaknin], Forthcoming
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
Teacher, Scholar, Mother: Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy, Lexington Press
Encyclopedia
"Sylvie Germain"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
(2011)
Journal Article
“La Peste et ses variantes : Camus, Puenzo et Nguyen, ou l’adaptation cinématographique repensée.”
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
La Revue des Lettres Modernes (Série Albert Camus), (2024)
“No Child’s Play”: Child Narrators, Transitional Objects, and Embodied Trauma in Nancy Huston’s Lignes de faille
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
Dalhousie French Studies, (2024)
“Reading Toews Reading Camus: Existentialist Echoes in Miriam Toews’s ‘Secular Mennonite’ Ethics and Aesthetics”
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
Mennonite Quarterly Review, (2023)
"Camus Facing the Problem of Evil, 'partagé entre la douleur et la beauté'"
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
Études Francophones, 34, 1-18, (2022)
"Into Great Silence: Pierre Péju’s La petite Chartreuse, a Contemporary Tale of Secular Pilgrimage"
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
Orbis Litterarum, 77 (5), (2022)
“Lorsque rentrer à l’école, c’est rester à la maison: Homeschooling in France as a Contemporary Critique of Social Institutions.”
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
Contemporary French Civilization, 45 (2), 189-210, (2020)
Hospitable Vision: Xavier Beauvois's "Des hommes et des dieux" and the Tibhirine Archive
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 54 (4), 400-418, (2018)
Rereading Elsa Triolet's Roses à crédit as a Fairy Tale for Tough Financial Times
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
Women in French Studies, (2017)
Sylvie Germain’s Essayistic Spirit
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
Women in French Studies, Special Issue 2017, (2017)
"'Ni haine ni pardon': Gabriel Marcel and Robert Antelme on the Limits of the Human"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
French Forum, 40 (2-3), 33-46, (2016)
"In and Out of Place: Geographies of Revolt in Camus's La Peste"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 39 (1), http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol39/iss1/, (2015)
"Filming the Silent (Br)Other: Levinasian Ethics and Aesthetic Faith in Patrick Drevet's Les Gardiens des pierres and Philip Gröning's Die große Stille [Into Great Silence]"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
The Modern Language Review, 109 (3), 617-28, (2014)
"Histoire de souffrances: Ethics of Remembering and Listening in Sylvie Germain's La Pleurante des rues de Prague"
Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
The French Review, (2013)