Erin Ponnou-Delaffon
Professor of French and Francophone Studies
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STV Stevenson Hall 240
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- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Current Courses
FRE 237.001 Critical Readings in French
FRE 111.001 First-Year French (Part I)
FRE 305.001 History of French Civilization
FRE 300.001 Research In French
IDS 121.001 Texts & Contexts: French Cinema: Art, History, Culture
Teaching Interests & Areas
French-language literatures, particularly modern and contemporary; French cinema; ethics and existentialism; contemporary France
Research Interests & Areas
20th- and 21st-century French-language literature; French film; religion, secularism, and narrative; ethics; existentialism; World War II, the Occupation, and the Holocaust; contemporary French society and culture
Ph D French
Yale University
M Phil Medieval Studies
Yale University
MA French & Francophone Studies
Bryn Mawr College
BA French & Francophone Studies
Haverford College
Book Review
Review of Silence and Rage in Miriam Toews’s Mennonite Novels, by Rita Dirks (Lexington Books, 2025)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2026), vol. 43.1, Forthcoming, Journal of Mennonite Studies
Review of Jacques Audiard, by Gemma King (Manchester UP, French Film Directors Series, 2021)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2023), vol. 38.1, pp. 228-231, Nouvelles Études Francophones
Review of Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews, by Sabrina Reed (University of Manitoba Press, 2022)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2023), vol. 41.1, pp. 233-235, Journal of Mennonite Studies
Review of Reframing Remembrance: Contemporary French Cinema and the Second World War, by Lisa Harper Campbell (Manchester UP, 2022)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2022), vol. 37.2, pp. 217-221, Nouvelles Études Francophones
Review of La France: histoire, société, culture, by Edward Ousselin (Canadian Scholars, 2018)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2019), vol. 73.4, pp. 655-656, French Studies
Review of L’instruction en famille : une liberté qui inquiète, by Michèle Guigue and Rébecca Sirmons (Harmattan, 2015)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2017), vol. 63.5, pp. 779-781, International Review of Education
Review of Values of Literature, edited by Hanna Meretoja, Saija Isomaa, Pirjo Lyytikäinen, and Kristina Malmio (Brill Rodopi, 2015)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2017), vol. 71.1, pp. 159-160, French Studies
Review of Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought, by Damian Catani (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2015), vol. 40.1, pp. 157-159, French Forum
Review of Cinema for French Conversation: le cinéma en cours de français, 4th ed., by Anne-Christine Rice (Focus, 2013)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2014), vol. 88.1, pp. 200-201, The French Review
Review of Sylvie Germain: les essais -- un espace transgénérique, ed. Mariska Koopman-Thurlings (Rodopi, 2011)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2013), vol. 87.1, pp. 228-229, The French Review
Review of Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, ed. Scott M. Powers (Cambridge Scholars, 2011)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2012), vol. 98, pp. 160-161, Dalhousie French Studies
Book, Chapter
“Beyond Borders: Teaching for Multiplicity in the L2 French Classroom”
Sandra Keller, Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2025), pp. 46-64, Narratives of Non-English L2 Language Teachers, edited by Nur Yiğitoğlu Aptoula and Melinda Reichelt, Routledge
“Revendiquer la différence. Perspectives d’expatriés états-uniens qui instruisent en famille en France”
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2025), pp. 629-655, https://doi.org/10.4000/14ts9, L’instruction en famille en France. Profils, mobiles et pratiques au tournant des années 2020, edited by Philippe Bongrand, Presses Universitaires de Rennes
“‘Le récit d’une libération’: Religion et violence dans l’écriture de Salim Bachi”
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2019), pp. 203-216, Salim Bachi, edited by Agnès Schaffauser, L’Harmattan
"In and Out of Place: Geographies of Revolt in Camus’s La Peste" (Article Reprint)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2018), vol. 356, pp. 285-292, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, Gale
"Encountering Others: Reading, Writing, Teaching, Parenting" (A reading of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Marc-Alain Ouaknin)
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2015), pp. 49-59, Teacher, Scholar, Mother: Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy, edited by Anna M. Young, Lexington
Encyclopedia
"Sylvie Germain," Literary Encyclopedia
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
(2011)
Journal Article
“La Peste et ses variantes : Camus, Puenzo et Nguyen, ou l’adaptation cinématographique repensée”
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
La Revue des Lettres Modernes (Série Albert Camus), no. 26, pp. 139-151, (2024)
“'No Child’s Play': Child Narrators, Transitional Objects, and Embodied Trauma in Nancy Huston’s Lignes de faille"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
Dalhousie French Studies, no. 125, pp. 27-38, (2024)
“Reading Toews Reading Camus: Existentialist Echoes in Miriam Toews’s ‘Secular Mennonite’ Ethics and Aesthetics”
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
Mennonite Quarterly Review, vol. 97.2, pp. 161-182, (2023)
"Camus Facing the Problem of Evil, 'partagé entre la douleur et la beauté'"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
Études Francophones, vol. 34, pp. 1-18, (2022)
"Into Great Silence: Pierre Péju’s La petite Chartreuse, a Contemporary Tale of Secular Pilgrimage"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
Orbis Litterarum, vol. 77.5, pp. 285-298, (2022)
“Lorsque rentrer à l’école, c’est rester à la maison: Homeschooling in France as a Contemporary Critique of Social Institutions”
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 45.2, pp. 189-210, (2020)
"Hospitable Vision: Xavier Beauvois's Des hommes et des dieux and the Tibhirine Archive"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. 54.4, pp. 400-418, (2018)
"Rereading Elsa Triolet's Roses à crédit as a Fairy Tale for Tough Financial Times"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
Women in French Studies, vol. 25, pp. 149-159, (2017)
"Sylvie Germain’s Essayistic Spirit"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
Women in French Studies, Special Issue, pp. 104-114, (2017)
"'Ni haine ni pardon': Gabriel Marcel and Robert Antelme on the Limits of the Human"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
French Forum, vol. 40.2-3, pp. 33-46, (2016)
"In and Out of Place: Geographies of Revolt in Camus's La Peste"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, vol. 39.1, http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol39/iss1/, (2015)
"Filming the Silent (Br)Other: Levinasian Ethics and Aesthetic Faith in Patrick Drevet's Les Gardiens des pierres and Philip Gröning's Die große Stille [Into Great Silence]"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
The Modern Language Review, vol. 109.3, pp. 617-628, (2014)
"Histoire de souffrances: Ethics of Remembering and Listening in Sylvie Germain's La Pleurante des rues de Prague"
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon.
The French Review, vol. 87.1, pp. 153-164, (2013)