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.
Assistant Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Research Interests: Francophone Literatures, Visual Culture (particularly photography), Race in France, Interpretation and Criticism.
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Associate Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Global Coordinator
Clinical Associate 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.
Director, Institute of French Studies
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
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
Clinical Associate Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Language Programs Director
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
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
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 Culture
Director of Graduate Studies
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
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Sylvaine Guyot, currently Professor of French Literature in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and Chair for Theater, Dance & Media (TDM) at Harvard University, will be joining the faculty of the Department of French Literature, Though and Culture at NYU in fall 2021. Her research and teaching interests focus on seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century theater and performance practices, with particular emphasis on the representation of the body in early modern France, the history of visual emotions, the notion of the tragic, the theory and politics of theatricality, as well as the intersections of critical thinking and creative practice. She is the author of Racine ou l’alchimie du tragique (PUF, 2010) and Racine et le corps tragique (PUF, 2014), as well as the co-editor of a special issue of Littératures classiques on L’Œil classique (2013, with Tom Conley), of a new edition of Racine’s Théâtre complet (Classiques Garnier, 2013, with Alain Viala), and of a forthcoming volume on Databases, Revenue, & Repertory: The Eighteenth-Century French Stage Online (1680-1793) (MIT Press, 2020, with Jeffrey Ravel). She has also published numerous articles on Corneille, the intersections of drama and painting, the figure of the king in seventeenth-century tragedy, as well as Louis Marin, the development of aesthetics and the neoclassical sublime. She is currently working on two book-length projects, one on éblouissement vs. séduction in early modern visual culture, the other devoted to the Princess Palatine’s voluminous correspondence.
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French
gpl234@nyu.edu
Education
B.A. McGill University
Master II, Université Montpellier III
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French
ctr260@nyu.edu
Claire Reising is a specialist of 20th and 21st century Francophone literature and theater. Her first project, “Deferred Return and Experimental Creation: Dany Laferrière’s and Wajdi Mouawad’s Detours through Montreal,” analyzes how the two authors resist characterization as migrant writers or as exemplars of national identity. While their writing is animated by forced displacement and deferred return, they self-consciously draw attention to their authorial personas and experimental forms. Her analysis draws from Édouard Glissant’s theorizations of displacement and cultural production, highlighting the instability of concepts such as national identity, or home and host country.
Education:
Ph.D., French, New York University
M.Phil., New York University
B.A., M.A., University of Notre Dame
Research and teaching interests:
20th and 21st century French and Francophone literature, Francophone theater, visual culture, migration and cities, Caribbean literature, Québécois literature, Maghrebi literature and film
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French
Research Interests: 18th century, the birth of the "'Idéologie" (Pierre Jean George Cabanis, Maine de Biran, Destutt de Tracy), physiology and the maladies of the soul, the philosophical (and legal) status of lunacy and other marginal human states, the psychoanalysis and Julia Kristeva, literary criticism
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
Senior Language Lecturer of French
Research Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; second-language acquisition; computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
Senior Language Lecturer of French
Research Interests: Writing, reading, music, history, film, natural sciences, biking, Frisbee
Senior Language Lecturer of French
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.
Language Lecturer of French
Research Interests: Second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, phonetics, Maine French and storytelling
Language Lecturer of French
Research Interests: Early modern pamphlet literature, early modern women’s writing, 17th- and 18th-century narrative prose fiction and theater, and the digital humanities.
Language Lecturer of French
Research Interests: World cinema, French and American relations and history, literature
Language Lecturer of French
Language Lecturer of French
Research Interests: Language contact (English-French, French-German); historical French/Germanic linguistics; sociolinguistics
Senior Language Lecturer of French
Research Interests: Translation, linguistics, creative writing, modern French literature and history, French media and political communication, Business French
