Clinical Associate Professor
Faculty
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
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.
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Postdoctoral Lecturer
Research & Teaching interests: Terrence Cullen is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture. He specializes in the literature, music, and manuscript culture of the French Middle Ages. His current book project, Hear This Page: Cultures of Listening and the Medieval French Manuscript, examines the modes of listening detailed in thirteenth-century narratives and their reproduction on the manuscript page. He has also published on linguistic contact and vernacular devotion in the Middle Ages and maintains an interest in the history of sound technologies both premodern and modern.
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 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
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.
Senior Language Lecturer of French
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
Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication
Research Interests: European intellectual history; print media and culture; paperwork and bureaucracy; French Revolution.
Postdoctoral Lecturer
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."
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
Professor, Associate Chairperson, Tisch School of the Arts
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 Lecturer
Research and interests: Her research examines the literary, cultural, and historical significances of bees in medieval France through the lens of critical animal studies, posthumanism, and ecocriticism in order to demonstrate the unique and exemplary position of bees in the medieval natural hierarchy. Her dissertation is titled 'The Political Animal': the Symbolic Ecology of the Bee in Medieval France.
Professor, Tisch
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
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.