Habiba Boumlik

Courses: Intermediate French II: “Being Maghrebi: Morocco Through French and Moroccan Eyes”

Richard Dickinson

on leave yearlong

B.A., Harvard University. M.A., Ph.D., New York University. Special interest in French poetry; author of Degas’ Portrait of Madame Gaujelin and Le Message Politique de Clytemnestre. SLC, 1984-

Max Kramer

Courses: Beginning French, Intermediate French III: Around Symbolism (Poetry and Fiction)

B.A., M.A., Sorbonne. M.A., M.Phil., Columbia University. Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University/Sorbonne. Special interests: modernist poetry (French, German, Spanish), queer and gender theory, French literature of the nineteenth century, theory of metaphor, sexuality in Muslim cultures, Francophone Maghrebian literature. Fellow of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Pensionnaire étranger, École Normale Supérieure, President fellowship Columbia University. Scholarly publications in Romanic Review; Encyclopedia of Love, Sex, and Culture: The Nineteenth Century; Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature; proceedings of Stratégies discursives “queer” dans le temps et dans l’espace, University Paris 13. SLC, 2005-

Eric Leveau

Courses: Advanced Beginning French: Paris as a Book, Advanced French: The Literature of Laughter in Early Modern France

Graudate of Ecole Normale Supérieure (Fontenay-Saint Cloud). Agrégation in French Literature and Classics. Doctorate in French literature, Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). Special interest in early modern French literature, with emphasis on theories and poetics of theatre, comedy and satire, rhetoric, the evolution of notions of writer and style during the period. SLC, 2003-2006; 2008-

Angela Moger

on leave yearlong

B.A., Bryn Mawr College. M.A., University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D., Yale University. Special interests include theory of narrative, French literature of the nineteenth century, decadence in painting and literature, and semiotic and rhetorical approaches to the short story. Recipient of Yale University’s Mary Cady Tew Prize and the Dwight and Noyes Clark fellowship. Scholarly publications include essays in PMLA, Yale French Studies, and Substance; the anthologies Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism and Maupassant Conteur et Romancier; and the books Hurdles and Moving Forward, Holding Fast: The Dynamics of Movement in Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Visiting professor at the Institut d’Etudes Francaises d’Avignon. Dean of studies, Sarah Lawrence College, 1972-1975. SLC, 1971-

Karen S. Santos da Silva

Courses: Beginning French: Defining French Culture from Within and Without, Intermediate French I: Before We Met: Fictions of Origins and Reflections on Socialization in Eighteenth-Century French Literature

B.A., University of California-Berkeley. M.A., New York University. Special interests: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, particularly early modern poetics of the novel, the moralists, and the emergence of (female) subjectivity. Author of papers on Madame Riccoboni. Recipient of NYU Outstanding Teaching Award, Chateaubriand Fellowship, and NYU Humanities Initiative Research Fellowship. SLC, 2008-