Matthew Trumbo-Tual

Matt Trumbo-Tual is visiting assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies. His research focuses on class, social mobility, and speech (accents and dialects) in 19th and 20th century French literature. He is currently studying poetry and memoirs written by coal miners in northern France to examine how workers form distinct dialects, and how shifts in the capitalist economy disrupt cultural and linguistic identities based on profession.

A comparativist by training, he has wide-ranging interests and has worked on Marcel Proust, exchanges between French and German modernism, and France’s colonial presence in West Africa.