Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

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Dr. Mélanie Giraud received her PhD in French Literature from Johns Hopkins University. Before joining LMU as Visiting Assistant Professor of French in 2025, she taught at Coastal Carolina University, Goucher College, Loyola University Maryland, Bucknell University, Bryn Mawr College, Kenyon College, the University of Central Arkansas, and abroad in Finland and Hungary. Her teaching and research focus on 19th–21st century French and Francophone Literatures and Second Language Acquisition. She has also led study abroad programs in France and enjoys traveling, having lived in four countries and visited more than thirty worldwide.

Mélanie Giraud

Loyola Marymount University

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Education

Johns Hopkins University

Bryn Mawr College

U.F.R. des Lettres et Sciences Humaines. Nantes, France

U.F.R. des Lettres et Sciences Humaines. Nantes, France

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