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.
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.
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French
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 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
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Language contact (English-French, French-German); historical French/Germanic linguistics; sociolinguistics.
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French
jmf651@nyu.edu
Education
B.A., University of Central Oklahoma
Research Interests: 20th century French literature, particularly from the interwar period to the immediate postwar; avant-garde literary and cinematic production (Dada, Surrealism, militant and/or committed literature, postwar existentialism); the resonances of history and politics in literary texts, particularly in literary forms; Marxist theory and practice; history of the USSR and of the international socialist movement.
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 Associate Professor
Research Interests: Translation, linguistics, creative writing, modern French literature and history, French media and political communication, Business French.
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French
Research interets: Medieval French literature, especially lyric poetry and song; medieval musicology and sound studies; manuscript studies; the development of French as a written language and its use outside of France in the Middle Ages.