Department of French at the University of Virginia

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      Faculty

     Majida Bargach, Lecturer
   

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

 
     Marva Barnett, Professor & Director of The Teaching Resource Center
   

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

 
 

   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

 
     Kandioura Dramé, Associate Professor
   

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.

 
     Stephanie Hopwood, Visiting Lecturer and Associate Director of the Lyon Programs
   

Teaching Interests: Francophone Caribbean literary aesthetics, magical realism, the intersection of memory and dictatorship in Haitian literature, the post-1950 French novel, 19th and 20th century French short stories, and autobiographical literature of French expression.


 
     Janet Horne, Associate Professor
   

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 James, Lecturer and Gordon Project Director
   

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

 
     Cheryl Krueger, Associate Professor & Language Program Director
   

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

 
     Alison Murray Levine, Assistant Professor
   

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.

 
     John Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French & Chair
   

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

 
     Claire Lyu, Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
   

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

 
     Deborah McGrady, Assistant Professor
   

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

 
     Mary McKinley, Douglas Huntly Gordon Professor
   

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

 
     Amy Ogden, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
   

Research & Teaching Interests: Medieval Studies, Gender Studies

 
     Philippe Roger, Professor
   

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.

 
     Betty Sapir, Assistant Professor
   

Teaching Interests: 17th and 18th century French Literature, Theater History, Urban History and Cross-Cultural Studies.


 
     Gladys Saunders, Associate Professor
   

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.


 
     M. Wynne Stuart, Lecturer
   

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.

 
     Jennifer Tsien, Assistant Professor
   

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

 
     Christine Zunz, Lecturer
   

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

 
 

Affiliated Faculty

 
     Lenard R. Berlanstein Corcoran Department of History
     Kevin Hart Department of Religious Studies
     Sophia A. Rosenfeld Corcoran Department of History
     Elizabeth Thompson Corcoran Department of History
 

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