Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
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
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Research Interests: 19th-century literature and thought; history in fiction, fiction in history; representation of the family in fiction and non fiction; theory of the novel.
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Interim Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Global Coordinator
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.
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.
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
sg7220@nyu.edu
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.
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Research Interests: 20th-century literature; narration and the media; literature and politics; the avant gardes; theory of literary history
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Research Interests: Medieval literature in French, Occitan, and Latin, especially poetry; the history of philosophy, especially Aristotle and Scholastic thought; and modern theory, especially psychoanalysis
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
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
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Associate Professor of French Literature, Thought and Cultureln25@nyu.edu
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Department Chair
Research Interests: Renaissance Studies and classical reception with certain theorists, thinkers, and practices of geography, ecology, and visual studies
Visiting Professor
Spring 2022
Ali Benmakhlouf est agrégé de philosophie. Il est actuellement professeur à l’université de Paris-Est Val de Marne, au département de philosophie et membre Senior de l’institut universitaire de France. Le fil directeur de ses recherches est la logique, l’histoire et la philosophie de la logique.
Visiting Professor
Spring 2022
Romuald Fonkoua est professeur de Littérature francophone à l’université Paris-Sorbonne où il dirige le Centre International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) et la collection « Lettres Francophones » des PUPS (Presses Universitaires Paris Sorbonne). Auteur de nombreux travaux sur la francophonie, il a publié notamment Aimé Césaire 1913-2008 (Perrin, 2010), on signalera également, Essai sur une mesure du monde : Édouard Glissant (Honoré Champion, 2002). Il a dirigé ou co-dirigé de nombreux ouvrages collectifs parmi lesquels, Robert Delavignette, savant et politique (1897-1976) (Karthala, 2009), Les Champs littéraires africains (Karthala, 2001) et Discours de voyages (Afrique-Antilles, Karthala, 1999). Ses recherches actuelles portent sur les questions de littérature générale et d’histoire littéraire en (et à partir de la) francophonie.
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French
Education
B.A., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; M.A., University of Connecticut; M.A., New York University
Research Interests
Medieval French and Occitan poetry and lyric; contemporary and medieval philosophy; critical and literary theory.
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French
Research interests include Early Modern literature in France and Italy, Petrarchism, Lucretius, Early Modern science, phenomenology, Early Modern book printing, (post)humanism, Animal Studies, Plant Theory and Ecocriticism.
Education:
B.A., Barnard College
MPhil, New York University
PhD, New York University
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
nge207@nyu.edu
Research & Teaching interests: 19th- and 20th-century French and Francophone Literature; critical and literary theory; aesthetics; media studies; cinema; contemporary philosophy; dandyism; surface and plasticity
Education
Licence, Montpellier III;
M.A., Univeristy College London;
M.A., New York University;
M.Phil., New York University
PhD, New York University
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.
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.
Silver Professor
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Kant, Hegel, modern philosophy, philosophy of mind
Professor, Associate Chairperson, Tisch School of the Arts
Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Interests: French literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries; Francophone Caribbean literature; urban history, theory, and politics; literature, culture, and ideology; popular culture; History and Literature
Professor, Tisch
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; second-language acquisition; computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Writing, reading, music, history, film, natural sciences, biking, Frisbee
Clinical Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
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
Senior Language Lecturer of French
Research Interests: Art, Languages, People and Food - and all the intersections between them.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, phonetics, Maine French and storytelling
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Early modern pamphlet literature, early modern women’s writing, 17th- and 18th-century narrative prose fiction and theater, and the digital humanities.
Clinical Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Language Programs Director
Interim 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
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
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Translation, linguistics, creative writing, modern French literature and history, French media and political communication, Business French
