Timothée Valentin

FacultyRomance and Classical Studies

Assistant Professor
French

Biography

Timothée Valentin holds a MA and a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from Penn State University, where he has taught a wide range of classes from basic language to upper-level thematic courses, in both French and English. His book project considers Guadeloupean women ‘s political activism from the rise of a workers’ movement in Guadeloupe in the 1890s to 1946, 1946, when two women, Eugénie Éboué-Tell and Gerty Archimède, were elected to represent Guadeloupe at the French National Assembly. In January 2022, he also edited and published an 1899 serial novel, La fiancée du maître d’école by Sully Lara, a Guadeloupean writer and then schoolteacher.

Degree: PhD, 2023, Penn State University

Research Interest: Antillean history and literature; labor history; hip hop studies; democracy studies; French popular culture.

University News

Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival Returns to MSU

Published October 3, 2024 in College of Arts & Letters

A collection of six film posters arranged in two rows. From left to right in the top row: "La Nuit du 12" (a woman in a red coat at night), "The Beast" (a close-up of a woman's face), and "Retour à Séoul" (a woman in a black coat in front of neon lgihts). Bottom row: "Other People's Children" (a smiling woman and man with a child), "Le Mépris" (a woman lounging in a room above the ocean), and "Banel & Adama" (a woman in a red dress laying on cracked earth).

Assistant Professors Elizabeth Tuttle and Jena Whitaker in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University are excited to announce the return of the MSU Albertine…Read now »