Anne Gillain

Anne Gillain is Professor of French and served as Chair of the Department from 1984 to 1987. At Wellesley she teaches courses on French Cinema, and Advanced courses in Language. Ms. Gillain joined the Wellesley faculty in 1973.

A native of Ay, France, Ms. Gillain received her B.A. and M.A. from the Sorbonne in Paris where she majored in Classics and French Literature. She received her Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1975 in Romance Languages and Literatures.

Ms. Gillain is principally interested in the Contemporary Literature, French Cinema, and language. She has lectured and written on the French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine and on French film-maker Francois Truffaut.

Professor Gillain has published five books, Contemporary French Novelists (Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1988), Le Cinéma selon François Truffaut (Flammarion, 1988), François Truffaut : Le Secret Perdu (Hatier, 1991), The 400 Blows (Nathan, 1991), Manhattan (Nathan, 1997). She is currently working on a book on Cinema and Psychoanalysis.

Anne Gillain resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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