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Jonathan Gosnell
Associate Professor

email E–mail office Tyler Annex 202 phone 585–3689

Jonathan Gosnell earned his Ph.D. in French cultural studies from New York University.

Professor Gosnell joined the Smith faculty in 1996 and teaches language and culture courses from beginning to advanced levels. His scholarship focuses on the production of French and Francophone identities outside of metropolitan France. He has written The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930–1954 and several articles appearing in scholarly journals.

Gosnell's current research interests include French designs of Empire, Europe and the Americas and the development of postcolonial cultures in the Francophone world. He directed the Junior Year Abroad Program in Geneva, Switzerland in 2006–07.