Patrick Mensah

Associate Professor, Co-PI UMass Cornerstone Scholar Initiative

Patrick Mensah holds a PhD Degree in French Studies from Cornell University, and a BA in French and Spanish from the University of Ghana, Legon. 

Research Areas

• Rousseau and French Enlightenment Studies
• Critical and Literary Theory
• French and Francophone Literatures and Cultures
• African Cinema.

Courses Recently Taught

• Frenchst 897C: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Dialectic of the Enlightenment
• Frenchst 801: Contemporary Critical Theory
• Frenchst 444: 18^th Century Theater and Novel
• Frenchst 433: French Classicism
• Frenchst 388: Francophone Civilization Outside France
• Frenchst 280: Love and Sex in French Culture
• Frenchst 280 Online »
• Frenchst 353 Online »