Miranda Paikowski in her graduate regalia
PhD Student • Graduate Part-Time Instructor
French & Italian

WDBY 400
Fall 2024 Office Hours:
Monday and Wednesday 10:00AM - 11:00AM

Miranda graduated with her Master's degree in French Literature from CU-麻豆影院 in May 2024. She is continuing at CU to pursue her PhD, for which she will focus on French animal studies and animal ethics. She received her BA at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where she majored in English and French with minors in dance and studio art. She studied abroad in 2019 in Aix-en-Provence at the Institute for American Universities, where she was a member of the French Honors Program and the recipient of IAU's Excellence in French award. Miranda often integrated French language and culture into different aspects of her studies. She choreographed a piece titled "Passivit茅" her senior year in undergrad, for which the audio was an overlay of her recitation of a self-authored French poem. She also tied her English thesis on Henry James' celebrated novel The Portrait of a Lady into her French thesis on male authorship of the female experience in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. For this work, she was accepted听into her college's Celebration of Scholars as well as the National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)'s 2020 convention.听After graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2020, Miranda worked as a Teaching Assistant at two primary schools in Saint-Pierre-du-Mont: the Ecole Jules Ferry and the Ecole Biarn猫蝉.