Ari J. Blatt
Assistant Professor
Department of French
317 Cabell Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
434-924-7738
ajb6f@virginia.edu

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (2005)

Spring 2008 Office Hours:

Monday 12:00-2:00 & by appointment

 

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

 Representative Publications:

  • "The Play¹s the Thing: Marivaux and the Banlieue in Abdellatif Kechiche's L'Esquive," The French Review 81:3 (February 2008): 516-27
  • "Towards an Iconology of the Text: Art History and the Expanded Field in Claude Simon's Triptyque," Word & Image 22:1 (Jan-March 2006): 68-76
  • "Remake: Appropriating Film in Tanguy Viel's Cinéma," Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (formerly known as Sites), Special Issue on Cinema and Writing, 9:4 (December 2005): 379-86

 Courses Taught:

  • Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries: Deceptive Appearances
  • Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries: Modern Love
  • Literature and Film: Reflection of the Republic
  • Graduate Seminar: Writing and Photography
  • Graduate Seminar: Contemporary Fiction, or "Is French Literature Burning?"

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