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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

   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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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