Mathias Schwab-Garbizu
2025-2026 Graduate Fellow, Center for Ethics
Biography
Mathias Schwab-Garbizu is a PhD Candidate in the French and Italian Department whose research interests include critical sociolinguistics and education, social justice, language didactics, French in Louisiana, and sociolinguistics in soccer.
Schwab-Garbizu’s dissertation, L’oral scolaire, un instrument de justice sociale? (“Teaching Oral Skills, an Instrument for Social Justice?”), is written under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Klingler of Tulane University and Dr. Sylvie Wharton of Université Aix-Marseille (France).
The Center for Ethics Graduate Fellowships provides support to outstanding Tulane doctoral students who have excelled in their fields of specialization, have demonstrated an interest in ethical questions that cut across disciplinary boundaries, and are likely to make significant contributions to teaching and scholarship in their respective fields.
Publications
“Français Tirailleur: A “Somewhat Artificial” Pidgin? Reconsidering the Role of Interlanguage and Foreigner Talk in the Emergence of Pidgins and Creoles.” (To be submitted)
"Le français, une langue indienne ? Préservation linguistique et affirmation identitaire chez les Pointe-au-Chiens (‘French, an Indian Language? Linguistic Preservation and Identity Affirmation in the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe’). Actes du Colloque France-Louisiane de l’Université de Bordeaux Montaigne, 2025.
"Pour un enseignement pluriel, hétéroglossique et critique du français en Louisiane (‘For a Plural, Heteroglossic, and Critical Teaching of French in Louisiana’)." L’Expansion de la norme endogène du français en francophonie, edited by Gaston Kengue and Bruno Maurer, Paris: Éditions des archives contemporaines, 2023. https://eac.ac/articles/7120.
Education & Affiliations
- PhD Candidate – French and Italian Department, Tulane University / Département des Sciences du langage, Université Aix-Marseille (France)
- Master II Coopération linguistique et éducative en Français Langue Étrangère (‘Education and Linguistic Cooperation for French as a Foreign Language’) – Université Aix-Marseille - 2021
- Master II Affaires Culturelles et Projets Internationaux / Mécénat (‘International Cultural Projects Management / Art Patronage’) – Sciences Po Aix - 2011
