Marie-Paule Tranvouez

I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Balzac using a narratological and semiotic approach. My teaching interests include the French novel, pedagogy, cultural studies, and the autobiography as a genre.

I am a co-author of the sixth edition of Ensemble: Culture et Société, a cultural textbook introducing students to contemporary French documents and media. With my colleague, Jean Marie Schultz, I recently published Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections (Prentice Hall, 2009), an innovative intermediate French textbook based on the notion of linguistic and cultural intersections. I was the Secretary of the Association for French Cultural Studies for many years and have co-organized several colloquia on cultural studies at Wellesley College. I am the director of the French House in 2010-2011.