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Research: French Policy in the Middle East
Teaching Interests: French and Francophone literatures, North Africa, Middle East, North-South relations.

Research: Victor Hugo’s life and works; Reflective thinking in the humanities; Developing teaching & teaching methods; Reading & writing in a foreign language.
Teaching interests: Victor Hugo’s works; French composition; Critical thinking skills; Introduction to literary study

Research and Teaching Interests: Caribbean Studies, drama

   Ari Blatt, Assistant Professor

Research and Teaching Interests: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century French Literature and Film; Word and Image Studies; Contemporary French Civilization and Culture

Research and Teaching Interests: Francophone African literature (French colonial literature, early
Francophone, Negritude, and Post-Negritude writers; Essays, Fiction, and Poetry); African cinema, Oral traditions, and Contemporary African music and arts.

Research: Civilization; Social and Cultural History; Cinema and History.
Teaching Interests: 19th and 20th century social and cultural history; cultural studies; cinema and history; literature in social context.

   Karen Simroth James, Visiting Assistant Professor & Language Program Director

      Director, The Renaissance in Print (Gordon Project)

Research and Teaching Interests: Sixteenth-century French literature, history of the book in early modern France, approaches to teaching and studying language and literature, Internet and digital technology as tools for collaborative research and teaching in the Humanities.

Teaching and Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; French Cinema; Theoretical and practical approaches to the study of language, literature and film.

Research Interests: Civilization and cultural history, film history, documentary film, contemporary cinema, French colonialism, digital humanities.

Teaching Interests: 20th Century cultural history, film, civilization, images and texts.

Scholarship: 16th and 17th century French literature and intellectual history.
Teaching Interests:17th-century French theatre, poetry, and non-fiction prose; French cinema.

Research & Teaching Interests:19th-Century French Literature, Modern Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Literature and Science.

Research and teaching interests: Medieval and 16th-century literature, book culture, text and image, reader reception, authorship, patronage, and gender theory.

Research: Sixteenth-Century French literature.
Teaching Interests: Medieval and early modern literature and civilization.

Research & Teaching Interests: Medieval Studies, Gender Studies

Research: 18th Century literature, philosophy and cultural history; French-American mutual perceptions from the 18th to the 20th Century; the politics of poetics in the Western tradition.
Teaching Interests: 18th Century French literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Studies; Film and Literature.

Research Interests: Gallo-italian dialectology, French phonetics (articulatory and perceptual), phonological variation, historical linguistics, applied linguistics, languages in contact, French sociolinguistics, French lexicography and foreign language learning.
Teaching Interests: Courses in French language and linguistics, including phonetics and phonology, the history of French, the French language today, translation theory, applied French linguistics, French Sociolinguistics.

Research interests: Contemporary France, especially the role of media, especially electronic media, in presenting and influencing the political process.
Teaching interests: Contemporary France, especially as a vehicle for improved oral and written communication.

Research and Teaching Interests: 18th-century literature, Voltaire, satire and parody, Early Modern aesthetics.

Teaching and research interests: French grammar; 20th century francophone literature; detective novels; psychology and literature.

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