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Jerome Michel Cornette, Faculty

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Jerome Michel Cornette, visiting professor of French, April 23, 2008, in Richmond, Virginia. Cornette taught at Reed from 2002 to 2004, and then taught at the University of Utah and Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition, he lectured in the Ivory Coast and Japan. His academic expertise and interests included modern French literature, film studies, Francophone literature and culture from Africa and the Caribbean, and transnational studies. He received his MPhil in 1998 from Paris IV-Sorbonne, and his PhD in 2002 from Columbia University. Survivors include his father and sister.

Appeared in Reed magazine: August 2008

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