Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (2005)

Fall 2009: On Leave

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

 Representative Publications:

• “Phototextuality: Photography, Literature, Criticism,” Visual Studies 24:2 (September 2009)

• “The Interphototextual Dimension of Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie’s L’usage de la photo,” Word & Image 25:1 (Jan.-March 2009): 46-55

• "The Revolution Will Be Televised, or Didier Daeninckx's Cathode Fictions," Yale French Studies 114, Writing and the Image Today, ed. Jan Baetens and Ari Blatt (December 2008): 144-55
• "The Play's 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:

      Undergraduate

• Things
• The Occupation and After
• Modern Love
• Reflections of the Republic in Literature and Film
• Deceptive Appearances
• The Writing and Reading of Texts

      
      Graduate

• Consumerism, Mass Culture, and the Spectacle in France (1945-2008)
• The Contemporary Novel, or "Is French Literature Burning?"
• Writing and Photography
  

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