French Faculty

AB, University of Chicago. MA, MPhil, Columbia University. Area of specialization: 20th-century French literature. Dissertation on secret societies and conspiracies in interwar French literature. Research interests include 19th- and 20th-century French literature and cultural history, literature and politics, history and theory of the novel, and the avant-garde. SLC, 2012–

BA, University of California-Berkeley. PhD, UCLA. Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in French and History Across the Disciplines, Cornell University. Special interests in francophone literature and societies, postcolonial theory, literature and thought from the Maghreb in French and Arabic, orientalism, comparative literature, the relationship between mourning and literary practice, and global multilingual graffiti. SLC, 2011–

Graduate, École Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm), Paris. Agrégation in French Literature, Doctorate in French Literature, Paris-Sorbonne. Dissertation on “Body Language in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu” t(Honoré Champion, 2011). Beyond Proust and the narrative representation of the body, interests include 19th- and early-20th-century literature, history and theory of the novel, and relationships between literature and the visual arts. SLC 2010–

Graduate of École Normale Supérieure, Fontenay-Saint Cloud, France. Agrégation in French Literature and Classics. Doctorate in French literature, Paris-Sorbonne. Special interest in early modern French literature, with emphasis on theories and poetics of theatre, comedy and satire, rhetoric, and the evolution of notions of writer and style during the period. SLC, 2003-2006; 2008–

BA, Bryn Mawr College. MA, University of Pennsylvania. PhD, Yale University. Special interests include theory of narrative, French literature of the 19th century, decadence in painting and literature, and semiotic and rhetorical approaches to the short story. Recipient of Yale University’s Mary Cady Tew Prize and the Dwight and Noyes Clark fellowship. Scholarly publications include essays in PMLA, Yale French Studies, Substance, and Romanic Review; the anthologies Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism and Maupassant Conteur et Romancier; and the books Hurdles and Moving Forward, Holding Fast: The Dynamics of Movement in Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Visiting professor at the Institut d’Études Francaises d’Avignon. Dean of studies, Sarah Lawrence College, 1972-1975. SLC, 1971–