Frédérique Marty

Dr. Frédérique Marty, a native speaker of French, started to teach in the United States in 2012 at University of Idaho as part of an exchange program (2012-2013) with the University of Pau in the South of France. In 2014, she received her Ph.D. in French Language and Literature from the University of Pau. After completing her doctoral studies, Dr. Marty was appointed a Fellow in French and Francophone Studies at Marlboro College (2015-2019), where she developed and led a study abroad program in the French Basque region. In Fall 2019, Dr. Marty started to teach at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where she holds the position of Assistant Teaching Professor of French. Her primary research foci are Early Modern France (religious iconography, the history of the book, pilgrimage and travel narrative, and studies in otherness) and Francophone Literature. Dr. Marty explores, for example, how religious texts contributed to the construction of an early sense of French identity and through the theoretical lens of Post-Colonial Studies, she examines the literary work of a member of the National Front for Liberation (FNL), Mohamed Boudia (1932-1973) and the impact of the Algerian War on current French politics which includes immigration, racism, and secularism.