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French Studies, Department of
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 | Reda Bensmaia
French Studies, Department of
Professor Bensmaïa teaches courses on French literature and philosophy, film theory and French and Francophone postcolonial literature. His last book entitled EXPERIMENTAL NATIONS OR THE INVENTION OF THE MAGHREB has been published by Princeton University Press (Spring 2003). He is presently working on two projects : a Monograph on Gilles Deleuze's work and editing a special issue of CINEMAS on the same author; and a book on North African writers and is entitled: Politiques d'écrivain. |  | Michel-André Bossy
French Studies, Department of
Comparative Literature, Department of
Medieval Studies
Michel-André Bossy studies medieval cultural connections between France and its neighbors, especially during the period of the troubadours and the Hundred Years' War. His fields include medieval French, Anglo-Norman, and Occitan literature, 12th- to 15th-century lyric poetry, and social interpretations of literature. His emphases involve literary patronage and court politics, troubadours (especially Guiraut Riquier), manuscript compilations, cultural rivalries among book collectors, Chrétien de Troyes, Froissart. |  | Sanda Golopentia
French Studies, Department of
Professor Golopentia's areas of specialization include 20th-century literature and culture, Francophone Studies (Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, U.S.), 17th-20th century theater, critical theory, semiotics, and philosophy of language. She is the author of, among others, Les Voies de la pragmatique (1988) and co-author (with M. Martinez Thomas) of Voir les didascalies (1994). Currently Prof. Golopentia is working on a book entitled Histoires de dires. |  | Youenn Kervennic
French Studies, Department of
Professor Kervennic's next book, LE ROUTARD EN SMOKING BLANC, will first chronicle his adventures hitchhiking from Canada to "Tierra del Fuego" (the Land of Fire) in Argentina (1977-1979). He will then retrace his steps, 25 years later, and take stock of this journey. | | | Virginia Krause
French Studies, Department of
Professor Krause does research in Renaissance literature, particularly early modern romance and the history of leisure. She is currently working on confessional practices and witchcraft and is the author of "Idle Pursuits: Literature and oisiveté in the French Renaissance". | | | Thangam Ravindranathan
French Studies, Department of
| | | Pierre Saint-Amand
French Studies, Department of
Professor Saint-Amand has research interests in 18th-century literature, especially the novel, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and literary criticism and theory. He is currently working on a book, The Pursuit of Laziness: Idleness and the Philosophes. | | | Gretchen Schultz
French Studies, Department of
My research focuses on 19th-century French literature and culture, and gender and sexuality studies. I have written on French poetry and poetics in relation to gender and subjectivity (The Gendered Lyric: Subjectivity and Difference in 19th Century French Poetry, 1999). My current work focuses on representations of female sexuality in French literature and medical texts. | | | Lewis C. Seifert
French Studies, Department of
Professor Seifert's research interests include 17th-century literature, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and comparative approaches to folklore and the literary fairy tale. He is the author of Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias (1996) and of Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France (University of Michigan Press, 2009). He has co-edited with Todd Reeser a volume of essays, Entre Hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities in Culture and Theory (University of Delaware Press, 2008). |  | Shoggy Waryn
French Studies, Department of
Professor Waryn is involved with the CULTURA project, originally designed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The CULTURA project shows a concrete and dynamic way in which the Web can be used to foster understanding between two groups of students living in their own country. It offers learners (and teachers alike) a unique comparative, cross-cultural approach for gradually constructing knowledge of other values, attitudes and beliefs, in an ever-enlarging construction of the foreign culture. | | | Annie Wiart
French Studies, Department of
My professional interest lies mostly in the area of the theory and practice of second/foreign language teaching and learning, with an emphasis on teacher training. I develop teaching/learning materials based on contemporary French culture and research on learning styles. | | | Inge Wimmers
French Studies, Department of
Professor Wimmers does research on 17th-, 19th- and 20th- century literature, literary theory and analysis, poetics of the novel, and reader-oriented approaches to literature. Her books include: Poetics of Reading: Approaches to the Novel , Proust and Emotion: The Importance of Affect in "A la recherche du temps perdu," and Approaches to Teaching Proust's Fiction and Criticism. |
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