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Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture

Tom Bishop

(1929-2022)

Course Offerings for 2021-2022

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10 reasons to study French

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Benmakhlouf & Fonkoua

Visiting Professors - Spring 2022

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News from Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture

Jessamine Irwin

Mar. 12, 2021

Our Language Lecturer Jessamine Irwin wins the TV5 Monde Maine Heritage Film Grant!

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Feb. 18, 2021

Alumni Spotlight: Natalie Komissarova

Emily Apter participates in panel on the election on French TV program "Philosopher au présent"

Feb. 09, 2021

French & Francophone Theatre Project - A reading series developed by Judith Miller and Katie LaPorta

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Faculty Bookshelf

Click here for recent publications by faculty members!

Claudie Bernard

Penser la famille au XIXe siècle (1789-1870) (Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 2019)

Phillip J. Usher

Early Modern Écologies (Amsterdam University Press, 2020)

Stéphane Gerson

France in the World: A New Global History (Other Press, 2019)

Richard Sieburth

A Certain Plume (NYRB Poets, 2018)