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Martine Wagner is an Associate Professor of French at the University of South Florida (USF) in the Department of World Languages, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences. She joined the USF Tampa campus in 2022, having previously taught at the USF St. Petersburg campus since 2003. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Paris IV, Sorbonne (2002), and is an agrégée of Modern Letters.
Her teaching focuses on French language, Francophone cultures, and literature. She has received multiple teaching awards, including recognition from USF-St. Petersburg and the College of Arts and Sciences, and a USF Global Achievement Award Honorary Mention. As World Languages Coordinator, she pioneered minors/majors in languages and coordinated study-abroad programs in Nice, France, and Salamanca, Spain. She advises the French Club and mentors interns, while also serving as co-director of the Tampa Bay Latin Film Festival and member of related cultural committees.
Her research explores Francophone women writers, WWII resistors in France, and immigrant literature/film. Her 2007 book Les écrivaines francophones en liberté analyzes styles of writers like Maryse Condé and Assia Djebar. Her current book project examines Portuguese immigration in France since World War I. She contributes to journals like Women in French Studies and The French Review, and edited a 2018 special issue on Portuguese immigration for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora.
She actively engages with local French communities through the Tampa Bay Union des Français de l’étranger and Latin Film networks. Grants and advising efforts remain central to her academic service.
