Jennifer Gipson joins the Department of French, having earned her B.A. with a double major in French and Music and a minor in religious studies from Centenary College of Louisiana. As an undergraduate, Jennifer Gipson contributed significantly to rethinking francophone literature and to reimagining American and African-American literary history. At Berkeley, she will specialize in the literature of nineteenth-century France but with a special interest in how this literature profoundly touched the literary production of Creoles of color, even those who never left Louisiana.  Boris Wolfson, a candidate for the Ph.D. in Slavic, will be Jennifer Gipson’s mentor in 2003-2004.