Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Carla Freccero (Literature)
Renaissance studies, French and Italian language and literature, early modern European history and literature, postcolonial theories and literature, contemporary feminist theories and politics, queer theory, pre- and early modern studies, contemporary fiction by women of color in the U.S., identity politics as political formations

Pascale Gaitet (Literature)
Nineteenth- and 20th-century French literature, socio-linguistics, political history, Celine, Genet

Richard Terdiman (Literature)
Nineteenth- and 20th-century French and European literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, contemporary critical theory, cultural globalization

Associate Professor

Sharon Kinoshita (Literature)
Intercultural relations in 12th- and 13th-century literature, Mediterranean studies, globalism, postcolonial theory, world literature and cultural studies

Lecturer

Miriam Ellis
French theater history and performance, 17th-century literature and culture, Latina and Caribbean women poets, opera translation and production, theater as pedagogic instrument, computer-assisted French

Angela Elsey
Francophonie, especially North American (Louisiana, Quebec, the Caribbean); French dialectology and sociolinguistics

Patricia Fitchen
Poetry from Baudelaire to the present, modern French theater, French women and the arts, surrealism, history and theory of French cinema, intercultural communications

Gildas Hamel
French history and culture, Celtic languages and literatures, history of Judaism and early Christianity

Hervé Le Mansec
French phonetics and phonology, 20th-century French civilization, the nouveau roman, French opera

David A. Orlando
Foreign language pedagogy; second-language acquisition; French proletarian writers of the 1920s and 1930s; French civilization, especially the Renaissance, Revolution, Belle Epoque, and interwar periods