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“Studying the humanities expands your worldview. This can be done in many ways — for instance, through literature and film. It shapes how we see other people and interact with the world.” - Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp

will explore the emergence and implications of minority- ethnic stardom in France. “The past 15 to 20 years have seen an increased number of actors and actresses from different backgrounds becoming stars in the French film industry,” she says. “The television and film industries are starting to reflect France’s population to a greater degree, and I am looking to explore this change.”

Kealhofer-Kemp joined the faculty at URI in 2013. “It was one of only universities actively looking for someone doing work in French and film,” she says. In spring 2020, she’ll travel to France as part of a sabbatical sponsored by a URI Faculty Career Enhancement grant. Working primarily in France’s National Audiovisual Institute, she

By examining films, interviews, and records at the

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