The members of the Graduate Faculty in French are named below, with a brief listing of their areas of scholarly interest; recent honors and awards; professional activities; and significant publications.

A. James Arnold, Professor. Ph.D. Wisconsin (1968). Post-colonial Literature and Culture; New World Studies; Construction and Representation of Gender; NEH Fellow, the National Humanities Center, (1989-90); Queensland Fellow, University of Queensland, (1995); Senior Fulbright Scholar, Leiden University, (Fall 1995); Editor, A History of Literature in the Caribbean (3 vols., in progress); Editor, New World Studies, University Press of Virginia; Editor for Literature, Plantation Society in the Americas.
Representative Publications: Modernism and Negritude... (Harvard, 1981); Ed., Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows (Virginia, 1996); Ed. "Who / What Is Creole?" Plantation Society in the Americas special issue (1998).

Send e-mail to Professor Arnold to aja@virginia.edu


Marva A. Barnett, Professor. Ph.D. Harvard (1980). Reading and Writing Process Theory; Studies of Thinking in the Humanities. Director, Teaching Resource Center. Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College, University of Cambridge (2000); Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Teaching Technique Article (1990); Paul Pimsleur Award for Best Research Article in Foreign Language Education (1987).
Representative Publications: "Whose Course Is It? Students as Course Co-Creators" (1999); More Than Meets the Eye--Foreign Language Reading: Theory and Practice (1989); Lire avec plaisir: Stratégies de lecture (1988, 2nd ed. 1992).

Send e-mail to Professor Barnett to mab@virginia.edu


Janet Beizer, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Ph.D. Yale (1981). Nineteenth-Century Literature; Narrative Theory; Feminist Theory; Cultural Studies; Auto/biography. MLA Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies (1995); National Humanities Center Fellow, (1998-99); NEH Fellow, (1998, 1989); ACLS Fellow, (1991).
Representative Publications: Vicarious Lives (forthcoming); Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France (1994); Family Plots: Balzac's Narrative Generations (1986); "F/V: Notes sur Le Lys dans la vallée" (2000); "The Mother, the Bird, and the Letter: Notes on Histoire de ma vie and the Origins of Writing" (1999).

Send e-mail to Professor Beizer to jlb@virginia.edu


Robert F. Cook, Professor. Ph.D. Vanderbilt (1969). Medieval literature; Textual Criticism; Reader-centered Criticism.
Representative Publications: Chanson d'Antioche, chanson de geste (1980); The Sense of the Song of Roland (1987); "Les personnages féminins dans les derniers poèmes du Cycle de la Croisade" (1993); "The Song of Roland and the Homogeneous Past" (1998).

Send e-mail to Professor Cook to rfc@virginia.edu


Kandioura Dramé, Associate Professor. Ph.D. UCLA (1984). Francophone Literature; Comparative African Literatures. Vice-President and President-elect of the African Literature Association; Associate Editor, CARAF Books.
Representative Publications: "French Criticism of African Literature," African Literature Studies (1985); The Novel as Transformation Myth (1990); "Barlaban: A Mandika Epic" (1990); "Un écrivain algérien méconnu: M. Ben Chérif" (1993).

Send e-mail to Professor Dramé to kd4j@virginia.edu


Janet R. Horne, Associate Professor. Ph.D. New York University (1992). Civilization; Social and Cultural History; Cinema and History.
Representative Publications: "In Pursuit of Greater France: Visions of Empire among Musée Social Reformers" (1998); "Presenting Modern France: The Rhetoric of Reform at the 1889 Universal Exhibition" (1998); "Le Musée social à l'origine: les metamorphoses d'une idée, 1889-1900" (1995); A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State (forthcoming).

Send e-mail to Professor Horne to jrh9e@virginia.edu


Cheryl L. Krueger, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Wisconsin (1992). Foreign Language Methodology; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Narrative Theory; Literature and Film.
Representative publications: Entretiens: Cours de Conversation (1995, 2nd edition 2001); Tâches d'encre (1996).

Send e-mail to Professor Krueger to clk6m@virginia.edu


Elisabeth Ladenson, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Columbia (1993). Twentieth-Century Literature; Gender Studies; Rhetoric and Stylistics; Comparative Literature.
Representative Publications: "The Law of the Mother: Proust and Madame de Sévigné" (1994); "A Talk Consisting Solely of the Word 'No': Joyce Meets Proust" (1993); "Colette for Export Only" (1996); Proust's Lesbianism (1999).

Send e-mail to Professor Ladenson to el3a@virginia.edu


John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor. Ph.D. Yale (1972). Seventeenth-Century Literature. All-University Award for Outstanding Teaching (1995-1996).
Representative Publications: Exemplum: The Literature of Example in Early Modern France and Italy (1989); Critical Tales: New Studies of The Heptameron and Early Modern Culture (1993; co-editor with Mary McKinley); The Tragedy of Origins: Pierre Corneille and Historical Perspective (1996); Kingdom of Disorder: The Theory of Tragedy in Classical France (1999).

Send e-mail to Professor Lyons to jdl2f@virginia.edu


Claire Lyu, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins (1995). Nineteenth-Century Literature; Modern Poetry and Poetics; Cultural Studies; Literary Theory; Fashion and Modernity.

Representative Publications: "'High' Poetics: Baudelaire's Le Poème du hachisch" (1994); "The Poetics of the Penult: Mallarmé, Death, and Syntax" (1998).

Send e-mail to Professor Lyu to cl9t@virginia.edu


Mary B. McKinley, Douglas Huntly Gordon Professor. Ph.D. Rutgers (1974). Renaissance Literature; Rhetoric and Poetics; Montaigne; Marguerite de Navarre. Recipient of the 1993 Prix Montaigne.
Representative Publications: Words in a Corner: Studies in Montaigne's Latin Quotations (1981); Critical Tales: New Studies of The Heptameron and Early Modern Culture (1993; co-editor with John Lyons); Les Terrains vagues des Essais: Itinéraires et intertextes (1996).

Send e-mail to Professor McKinley to mbm@virginia.edu


Amy Ogden, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Princeton (2001). Medieval Literature; Hagiography; Gender Studies; Electronic Editions.

Send e-mail to Professor Ogden to avo2n@virginia.edu


Philippe Roger, Visiting Professor - Fall 1999 and 2000. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales et Centre d'étude de la langue et de la litterature françaises des 17e et 18e siècles (CNRS-Université de Paris IV). 18th Century Literature.
Representative Publications: Roland Barthes, roman (1986, 1991); ed. and contributor, L'Homme des Lumières. De Paris à Pétersbourg (1995); managing editor of Critique since 1996.


David Lee Rubin, Professor. Ph.D. Illinois (1967). Seventeenth-Century Literature; Poetics of Rewriting. Guggenheim Fellow (1980).
Representative Publications: A Pact with Silence (1991); contributor and editorial consultant, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993); "[Dis]solving Double Irony" (1995); "Refabulations" (1997); "Rewriting: A Heuristic Profile" (1999).

Send e-mail to Professor Rubin to dlr7r@virginia.edu


Gladys E. Saunders, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Michigan (1975). Phonetics & Phonology; Historical Linguistics; Applied Linguistics.
Representative Publications: "How the French Learn English: Recent Findings on Adult Language Instruction in France" (1995); "Language Contact in the South of France (1550-1789): A Tribute to Auguste Brun" (1997); "The Myth and Reality of Language Use in France at the Millennium" (1997).

Send e-mail to Professor Saunders to ges6n@virginia.edu


Roland H. Simon, Associate Professor and Interim Chair. . Ph.D. Stanford (1976). French Social and Cultural Studies; History of Civilization, Society and Literature (19th and 20th centuries). Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques; Director, French Project, Center for the Liberal Arts.
Representative Publications: Orphée médusé: Autobiographies de Michel Leiris (1984, Prix Gilbert Chinard); "Des usages de l'histoire dans les études culturelles" (1991); Unfinished Revolutions: Legacies of Upheaval in Modern French Culture (1998; co-editor with Robert T. Denommé).
Homepage: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rhs5m

Send e-mail to Professor Simon to rhs5m@virginia.edu