Dr. Christa Catherine Jones (PhD Washington University in St. Louis, 2006) is Professor of French at Utah State University, where she has been teaching a variety of upper-division French culture, literature, and special topics courses since 2008. Her research centers on colonial and postcolonial North African Francophone literature, music, film, and popular culture; Maghrebian folktales; gender and sexuality studies; Ecocriticism; travel literature. She is the author of Cave Culture in Maghrebi Literature (Lexington, 2012) and the co-editor of Women from the Maghreb (special issue of Dalhousie French Studies, 2014), New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales (University Press of Colorado, 2016), and Algerian Filmmaker Merzak Allouache (special issue of CELAAN Review, 2017). Her articles have appeared in the academic journals Al-Raida, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, Expressions maghrébines, Francofonia, French Review, Jeunesse, Research in African Literatures, Nouvelles Études Francophones, Studies in Travel Writing, The Journal of North African Studies, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and in numerous edited collections.
Intermediate French (FREN 2010, FREN 2020)
Business French (FREN 3510)
French Culture and Civilization (FREN 3550)
France Today (FREN 3570)
French Conversation (FREN 3060)
Advanced French Conversation (FREN 4060)
Il était une fois: French and Francophone Fairy Tales in Text and Film (FREN 4610)
The Contemporary French and Francophone Short Story (FREN 4620)
On connaît la chanson: Le Hit-parade de la chanson française (FREN 4900)
Recipient, Travel Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, USU, to fund travel to the
23rd Annual Mediterranean Studies International Congress at the University of Gibraltar,
$1,000 Travel Grant, 2020 (conference postponed to 2021)
Participant, “S’initier au français des affaires/français du tourisme,” Stage de français
professionnel, sponsored by the CCI Paris Île-de-France, the French Embassy in
Washington D.C., and the University of Nevada, 2018
Recipient, Researcher of the Year Award, LPSC, Utah State University, 2017
Participant, NEH Summer Seminar, “Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: The Voices of Women in
Literature, Cinema and Other Arts Since since Independence,” Oregon State University, 2017
Recipient, Travel Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, USU, to fund travel to the
African Studies Association Convention at Yale University. Invited talk. $1,300, 2017
Recipient, CARE Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Utah State University, to
fund research project to interview filmmaker Merzak Allouache in Paris, $1,902, 2017
Recipient, Travel Grant, Center for Women and Gender Studies, USU, $500, 2013
Recipient, Grant from Dean’s Office to set up new Study Abroad Program, $2,500, 2013
Recipient, Grant from the Office for Global Engagement, Utah State University, to set up
new Summer Study Abroad Program, $2,000, 2013
Recipient, Researcher of the Year Award, LPSC, Utah State University, 2011
Recipient, Advisor of the Year Award, 2009, LPSC, Utah State University
Recipient, GEM Seed Grant, Utah State University, 2009, $5,000
Recipient, Travel Grant, WGRI, Utah State University, 2008, $500
Outstanding Professor Award, University of Nebraska, 2008
Professor of French, Utah State University, since July 2019
Associate Professor of French, Utah State University, 2014-2019
Associate Department Head, Department of Languages, Philosophy and Communication Studies, Utah State University, 2015-2017 (2-year rotating term)
Assistant Professor of French, Utah State University, 2008-2014
Assistant Professor of German and French, University of Nebraska, 2007-2008
Reporter, Thomson-Reuters, Zurich and Geneva, Switzerland, 2003-2007
Reporter, Market News, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2001-2003
Senior International Content Manager, Bad Homburg, Germany, 2000-2001
Translations Editor, Sportal Limited, London, UK, 1999-2000
