French Faculty

BA, Connecticut College. MA, Middlebury College. MPhil, Columbia University. Pensionnaire étranger at Ecole Normale Supérieure. Specialist in literature and culture of the Enlightenment and French Revolution, with an emphasis on the theory and practice of drama. Dissertation, “The Convent Plays of the French Revolution,” studies theatrical representations of sacred feminine space in relation to republican gender ideology and the development of revolutionary drama. Research interests include women and authorship, literary experiments, and the interplay of social practices with changing forms of oral and written communication. Recipient of the Whiting Fellowship and Chateaubriand Fellowship. SLC, 2011—

BA, Brown University. Maîtrise en lettres modernes, Université de Versailles. MPhil, Columbia University. Pensionnaire étranger at the Ecole normale supérieure Lyon; instructor of literature humanities in Columbia University’s core curriculum. Specialist in 19th- and early 20th-century French literature and art, with an emphasis on the origins of literary modernity. Dissertation, “Disordered Collecting in French Literature 1880-1892,” explores the relationships between art collecting and literary decadence. Interests include literary representation of interiority, including madness, surrealism, and film. SLC, 2010—

BA, University of California-Berkeley. PhD, UCLA. Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in French and History Across the Disciplines, Cornell University. Special interests in francophone literature and societies, postcolonial theory, literature and thought from the Maghreb in French and Arabic, orientalism, comparative literature, the relationship between mourning and literary practice, and global multilingual graffiti. SLC, 2011—

Graduate, École Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm). Agrégation in French Literature, Doctorate in French Literature, Paris-Sorbonne. Dissertation on “Body Language in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu” to be published by Honoré Champion in July, 2011. Beyond Proust and the narrative representation of the body, interests include 19th- and early 20th-century literature, history and theory of the novel, and relationships between literature and the visual arts. SLC 2010—

Graduate of École Normale Supérieure (Fontenay-Saint Cloud, France). 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–