Rose Goyette

Rose grew up in Sacramento, California, and earned a Bachelor’s degree in English and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 2025. It was there that she solidified a long-time love of French language and literature through her Honors Thesis, titled “Seeing Double: Examining Modernity Through Binaries across Charles Baudelaire’s Poetry and Art Criticism.” After graduating, she received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant, through which she spent a year living in Lyon, inspired by the endless possibilities for lingual and cultural exchange. Rose hopes her year with the HILI program will continue to fuel this excitement as she examines how Modernist French poetry, rooted in a history of rigid poetic form, breaks away from preconceived notions—both of literary practice and of societal convention more largely. When she isn’t enveloped in her research, you can probably find her writing poetry at the park, listening to music too loud, teaching her friends to juggle, or wandering the streets of Paris on an endless quest for the perfect pain au chocolat.