French Studies

Faculty

Susan Blood, Associate Professor (PhD - Johns Hopkins University) Baudelaire; 19th Century French literature, literary and aesthetic theory. Coordinator of lower division pre-major sequence and advisor. website

Eloise A. Brière, Professor (PhD - University of Toronto) literatures, cultures and language issues of the Francophone areas of the world, particularly West Africa, the Caribbean (Haiti, Guyana, Martinique, Guadeloupe) and North America (Quebec, New England, Louisiana): women's writing; cinema of Francophone West Africa, Caribbean and Quebec website

Jean-François Brière, Professor (PhD - York University) cultural studies; social and cultural history of France; history of French expansion; political and intellectual developments connected to the evolution of the French colonial empire in the late 18th and early 19th centuries website

Cynthia A. Fox, Associate Professor (PhD - Indiana University, Bloomington) French linguistics; sociolinguistics; applied French linguistics website

Véronique Martin, Lecturer (ABD, University at Albany, SUNY) - French Studies (intercultural pragmatics, second language acquisition, North American French) 442-4110 website

Gretchen Oliver, Lecturer (MA - University at Albany, Albany) -French language, civilization and culture, Teaching French as a Second Language in grades Pre-K - 12 website

David Wills, Professor (Doctorat - Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle) French and comparative literature; contemporary French philosophy, particularly post-structuralism, deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida; film theory; theories of technology website

Mary Beth Winn, Professor (PhD - Yale University) French literature; Medieval and Renaissance studies; women in Medieval and Renaissance French literature; literature through music; the history of the book website

Affiliated Faculty

Sarah Cohen, Associate Professor, Art Department (PhD - Yale) Representations of the body in European art from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries website

Richard Fogarty, Assistant Professor, Department of History (PhD - University of California, Santa Barbara) French History in the Great War website

Jennifer Greiman, Assistant Professor, English Department (PhD - University of California, Berkeley) 18th and 19th Century American and Transatlantic Literature website

Pierre Joris, Professor, English Department (PhD - SUNY Binghamton) Poetry & Poetics, Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, New Media & Performance Studies, Creative Writing website

Joan Savitt, Adjunct Associate Professor (PhD - SUNY Buffalo) linguistics; French; study abroad; secondary education

Faculty Emeriti

Robert W. Greene, Professor (PhD - University of Pennsylvania)
Martin Kanes, Professor (PhD - University of Pennsylvania)
Raymond J. Ortali, Professor (PhD - University of Michigan)
Herman P. Salomon, Professor (PhD - New York University)
George Santoni, Associate Professor (PhD - University of Colorado)

 

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