Clinical Associate Professor
Faculty
Julius Silver Professor of French Literature Thought and Culture
Department Chair
Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Philosophizing in Languages, Political Theory, Translation theory and praxis sexuality and gender, critical theory, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, gender and ontology, new French philosophy, political fiction, French fiction and poetics, periodization critique, history and theory of Comparative Literature, critical pedagogies.
Clinical Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Research Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; second-language acquisition; computer-assisted language learning (CALL).
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Research Interests: 19th-century French literature and thought; history in fiction, fiction in history; the question of family in 19th-century thought and literature; expression of justice and ethics in 19th-century fiction; epistolary fiction; theory of the novel.
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Intersections of collective & individual trauma. Translation. Paris in history, art and literature. Montaigne’s Essays.
Assistant Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Research Interests: Medieval French Literature; Manuscript studies; Poetics and poetry; Reception theories and performance practices; Didactic literature; Literary genres and forms; Early music and sounds.
Assistant Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Research Interests: Francophone Caribbean literature, orality, and material culture; Caribbean and Black feminist theories of geography and subjectivation; decolonial ecologies and ecofeminisms; history of the Atlantic world; Caribbean theories of history and memory; anthropology beyond the human and sensory ethnobotany; Caribbean speculative and climate fictions; Haitian and Antillean Creoles; African diaspora religions; food history and food sovereignty; philosophy of science; critical cartography; digital humanities.
Associate Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Global Coordinator
Clinical Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Associate Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture
Research interests: 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century French literature and critical thought; comparative modernisms; aesthetic theory and the sociology of culture; environmental humanities; queer and feminist theory; theory of the novel.
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Literature and history; medicine and literature; medicine and history; religion and science; religion and politics; modern life and media; new wave cinema and literature; mass culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; immigration and citizenship in France; secularism and politics; urbanization and immigration.
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Professor of French Studies
Research Interests: Cultural history of modern France; politics of place and memory; travel; family history; cultural theory; modes of historical writing.
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Art, Languages, People and Food - and all the intersections between them.
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Research Interests: 17th-Century French Literature; Theater and performance practices; Early modern visual culture; History of the body and emotions; Tragedy and the notion of the tragic; Theory and Politics of Theatricality; The Dramatic repertoire; Intersections of critical inquiry and creative practice.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, phonetics, Maine French and storytelling.
Visiting Lecturer
Research interests: Medieval literature; Animal studies; ecocriticism; posthumanism; visual culture; manuscripts; Intersections in politics, religion, and scholarship; distribution of ideas; Bees.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Early modern pamphlet literature; early modern French women’s writing; 17th- and 18th-century narrative prose fiction and theater; affect theory; material history; theories and practices of the digital humanities (TEI and mark-up language).
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Postcolonial memory and historical trauma in the Maghreb and France; aesthetic theory; political theory ;visual media; gender.
Clinical Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Language Programs Director
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Faculty Fellow in Residence
Faculty Affiliate, Lipton Hall French Floor
Research Interests: Foreign language pedagogy, medieval French language and literature, history of the French language.
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Director, La Maison Française of NYU
Research interests: Literature and Philosophy, French and Francophone Thought, 20th and 21th Century, Music, Aurality.
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: World cinema, French and American relations and history, literature.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Language contact (English-French, French-German); historical French/Germanic linguistics; sociolinguistics.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: 20th- and 21st- century French literature; Postcolonial studies; French Theory; French as a Foreign Language.
Professor, French Literature, Thought and Culture; Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Renaissance Studies and classical reception with certain theorists, thinkers, and practices of geography, ecology, and visual studies.
Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Research Interests: French cinema; 20th-21st Century French Literature; Feminism; Contemporary film theory; Media Studies; Second language acquisition.
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Translation, linguistics, creative writing, modern French literature and history, French media and political communication, Business French.
Visiting Lecturer
Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, with an expertise in theater and performance. Teaching and research interests prioritize representations of exile and forced migration, as well as race, identity, and diaspora.
ASSOCIATE AND AFFILIATE FACULTY
Associated Faculty Visiting Professor in French Literature, Thought and Culture and Otto Mainzer and Ilse Wunsch Mainzer Global Distinguished Professor of German, Department of German 2023-24-2026-27.
Associate Professor of History
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History
Research Interests: Modern European Intellectual History; French and German Thought; Political Theology and Philosophical Anthropology; History of Medical Concepts; Film; History of Science
Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication
Research Interests: European intellectual history; print media and culture; paperwork and bureaucracy; French Revolution.
University Professor of the Humanities; Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of English; Professor of German
Research Interests: Literary and other discourses; feminist and queer letters; philosophy; technology and media; psychoanalysis; deconstruction; performance art.
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature; Director of the Program in Poetics & Theory (AY 2021-2022)
Research interests: 19-21st century French literature, comparative modernisms, narrative and the novel, critical theory, aesthetics, and translation studies.
University Professor
Professor of Comparative Literature
Professor of Africana Studies
Research Interests: Black American film, literary and cultural studies, black film in Africa and Europe.