Faculty & Staff
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Héléne Bilis
Assistant Professor of French
B.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Specializes in early modern literature and culture, with a focus on theater and poetics, and how they intersect with royal discourses on power.
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Venita Datta
Professor of French
A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Specialist of French cultural and intellectual history.
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Sylvaine V. Egron-Sparrow
Senior Lecturer in French
Licence de Lettres Modernes, Université de Haute Bretagne; Maîtrise de Français et de Linguistique, Université de Vincennes
Specializes in French civilization and conversation courses.
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Marie-Cécile Ganne-Schiermeier
Visiting Lecturer in French
M.A., Ph.D., Boston University
Academic focus includes authorship, textual strategies, and the fashioning of subjectivity. Passionate about teaching and her commitment to students.
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Scott E. Gunther
Associate Professor of French
B.A., Cornell University; D.E.A., Ecole Normale Superieure & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; J.D., Ph.D., New York University
Specialist of contemporary French society. Interested in the French media, gender and sexuality in France, and France and the European Union.
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Andrea Gayle Levitt
Margaret Clapp ’30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of French and Linguistics
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of linguistics and French. Interested in language learning and speech perception and production.
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Barry Lydgate
Professor of French
B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: intellectual history of the French Renaissance; confessional writing; post-war Paris; exploring the power of interactive media to teach language and culture.
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Catherine Masson
Professor of French
Licence, Maîtrise, Université de Haute Bretagne (Rennes); Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Specialist of theater, especially interested in new and revolutionary forms of theater.
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Codruţa Morari
Assistant Professor of French
B.A., Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Paris III
French Cinema in International Context, Intellectual History, Aesthetic Theory, History of Film Festivals, Media Theory.
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James Michael Petterson
Professor of French
B.A., Reed College; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Engaged in studying French poetry in its relation to contemporary French, philosophy, aesthetics, and intellectual history.
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Anjali Prabhu
Professor of French
B.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University (India); M.A., Purdue University; Ph.D., Duke University
Works in postcolonial studies, Francophone studies, cultural theory (especially French theory), cinema studies, African studies.
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Marie-Paule Tranvouez
Senior Lecturer in French
D.U.T., Institut Universitaire de Technologie, (Brest); M.A., State University of New York (Stony Brook); Ph.D., University of California (Santa Barbara)
A specialist of the 19th-century French novel; teaching interests include the French novel, pedagogy, cultural studies, and the autobiography as a genre.
