Catherine Viano Laughon
Senior Lecturer of French, K-12 Teaching Licensure Coordinator, French Basic Language Program Director
Languages Literature and Cultures
Email Address: caviano@uncg.edu
Education
Ph.D. in French Literature, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2018
M.A. in French, with an emphasis in French Civilization, Culture and Society, Middlebury College, 2012
B.A. in French, Loyola University New Orleans, 2003
Research/ Teaching Interests
- Early modern French theater
- Performance studies
courses taught
- FRE 101 – Beginning French I
- FRE 102 – Beginning French II
- FRE 203 – Intermediate French I
- FRE 204 – Intermediate French II
- FRE 301 – Bridges to French Literature and Culture
- FRE 312 – French Conversation and Culture
selected achievements
Catherine received several external and internal fellowships for her dissertation project, including the Walter J. Jensen fellowship in French Languages and Literature from the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, the Edouard Morot-Sir fellowship in French studies from the Institut Français d’Amérique, and the Georges Lurcy fellowship from the UNC Graduate School, among others, all used to conduct archival research in Paris at the multiple locations of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) and les Archives nationales. An article based on her dissertation’s second chapter appears in the comparative academic journal, Renaissance Drama. Currently, in addition to her monograph project, Catherine researches recent adaptations of early modern plays in relation to media and film studies.