Denis Provencher, who obtained his doctorate from the Department in 1998, has begun a new position as Professor of French and Head of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona. Dr. Provencher has authored two books, Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations (forthcoming in 2016) and Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France (2007), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on 19th, 20th, and 21st century French and Francophone Studies and on Queer Theory and Gender Studies. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contemporary French Civilization.