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College of Arts and Sciences

Erin Ponnou-Delaffon

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Lang Literatures & Cultures
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 203A
Office Phone
(309) 438-7981office
phone
Email
eponnou@ilstu.eduemail
Website
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Current Courses

112.001First-Year French (Part II)

112.002First-Year French (Part II)

300.001Research In French

386.001Topics In French And Francophone Cinema

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

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Jacques Audiard, by Gemma King (Manchester UP, French Film Directors Series, 2021). Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 38, no. 1, 2023, pp. 228-31.

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews, by Sabrina Reed (U of Manitoba P, 2022). Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 2023, pp. 233-35.

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Reframing Remembrance: Contemporary French Cinema and the Second World War, by Lisa Harper Campbell (Manchester UP, 2022). Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 37, no. 2, 2022, pp. 217-21.

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of La France: histoire, société, culture, by Edward Ousselin (Canadian Scholars, 2018). French Studies, vol. 73, no. 4, 2019, pp. 655-56.

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of L’instruction en famille : une liberté qui inquiète, by Michèle Guigue and Rébecca Sirmons (L’Harmattan, 2015). International Education Review, vol. 63, no. 5, 2017, pp. 779-81.

Book, Chapter

Keller, Sandra, and Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon. “Beyond Borders: Teaching for Multiplicity in the L2 French Classroom.” Narratives of Non-English L2 Language Teachers, edited by Nur Yiğitoğlu Aptoula and Melinda Reichelt. Forthcoming with Routledge, 2025.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Revendiquer la différence. Perspectives d’expatriés états-uniens qui instruisent en famille en France.” Instruire ses enfants en famille, en France, au tournant des années 2020. Profils, mobiles et pratiques de parents non scolarisants, edited by Philippe Bongrand. Forthcoming with the Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025.

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “‘Le récit d’une libération’: Religion et violence dans l’écriture de Salim Bachi.” Salim Bachi, edited by Agnès Schaffauser, L’Harmattan, 2019, pp. 203-16.

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Encountering Others: Reading, Writing, Teaching, Parenting.” [A reading of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Marc-Alain Ouaknin.] Teacher, Scholar, Mother: Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy, edited by Anna M. Young, Lexington, 2015, pp. 49-59.

Encyclopedia

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Sylvie Germain.” The Literary Encyclopedia. April 2011. www.litencyc.com

Journal Article

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “La Peste et ses variantes : Camus, Puenzo et Nguyen, ou l’adaptation cinématographique repensée.” La Revue des Lettres Modernes, Série Albert Camus (“Postérité d’Albert Camus”), no. 26, 2024, pp. 139-51.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “'No Child’s Play': Child Narrators, Transitional Objects, and Embodied Trauma in Nancy Huston’s Lignes de faille.” Dalhousie French Studies, no. 125, 2024, pp. 27-38.

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Reading Toews Reading Camus: Existentialist Echoes in Miriam Toews’s ‘Secular Mennonite’ Ethics and Aesthetics.” Mennonite Quarterly Review, vol. 97, no. 2, 2023, pp. 161-82.

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Into Great Silence: Pierre Péju’s La Petite Chartreuse, a Contemporary Tale of Secular Pilgrimage.” Orbis Litterarum, vol. 77, no. 5, 2022, pp. 285-98.

Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. "Camus Facing the Problem of Evil, 'partagé entre la douleur et la beauté.'" Études Francophones, vol. 34, Spring 2022, pp. 1-18.