DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Tamara Tasevska received her Ph.D. in French and Francophone studies, with a Certificate in Critical Theory Studies (December 2021). Her dissertation, “The Color-Image: Chromaticism and the Multiplicity of Worlds in Jean-Luc Godard and Claire Denis,” was guided under the direction of Dr. Scott Durham and committee members Dr. Christopher Bush and Dr. Ariel Rogers. She held research fellowships with Northwestern’s Paris Program in Critical Theory, and was a visiting doctoral student at the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle in France (2018-2019).

Tasevska’s research focuses on French film in postwar and postcolonial contexts, with particular attention to the political aesthetics of color. Her reading of chromatic aesthetics foregrounds the use of color in a way that does not strictly attest to the reality of its referents, and, in so doing, utterly changes our sense of how color functions in French visual culture. She is currently an affiliated faculty member at Baruch College-CUNY and is working on her first monograph. Based on her dissertation, her monograph looks at the political and aesthetic questions that filmmakers and writers explore through experiments with color in their works. Her publications on Jean-Luc Godard and Claire Denis’s cinema have appeared in journals such as Études Francophones and Frames Cinema Journal. She has also published articles and book chapters on queer cinema, eco-criticism, and French-language comic books.