Timothy MessenPhD StudentFrench

Timothy Messen is a doctoral candidate (ABD) at Emory University in the Department of French and Italian. He works on literatures of French expression in the Americas, from the Renaissance to the 21st century. His dissertation highlights the influence of Indigenous etymologies and cosmologies on French texts from and/or about the Americas. An excerpt of his chapter on “maringouin” – a French word with Tupinamba origins meaning “mosquito” - will appear in a forthcoming special issue on Justice of the journal SITES: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. He has a BA from Dartmouth College in Comparative Literature (French and Russian) as well as a Master's degree in History of Philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure of Paris.