Dr. Beth Mauldin is an assistant professor of French at Georgia Gwinnett College. She received her Ph.D. in Romance languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After teaching at Georgia Tech as a Marion L. Brittain Fellow, she joined the faculty at GGC in 2011. Dr. Mauldin is currently working on a book about the cinematic constructions of the United States in the films of Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, and Jean-Pierre Gorin after May ’68. Most recently, she presented a paper on Michael Haneke’s film Caché at the Association of Cultural Studies Conference in Paris. Her interests include hiking in western North Carolina, marathon viewings of Breaking Bad and finding new ways to get back to Paris.