Miranda Paikowski

Miranda is a second-year MA student in the French program at CU. 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 "Passivité" 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 into her college's Celebration of Scholars as well as the National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)'s 2020 convention. 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 Biarnès.