Faculty

Unless otherwise noted, the members of the Faculty listed below will be offering courses in French in 2006-07. Their specialties and areas of major interest are indicated and you can see what courses they are teaching by going to the Courses folder. Please note that not all offices are located in Rochambeau House.

EDWARD J. AHEARN, Professor, University Professor. Ph.D. Yale University. Comparative Literature; 19th and 20th century French literature and poetry; literary theory; literature and the city. His publications include: Marx and Modern Fiction, 1989; Visionary Fictions, 1996. Comparative Literature Department, Marston Hall; phone (401) 863-3029. >>More information

RÉDA BENSMAIA, Chair of French Studies, Professor, University Professor. Doctorat de Troisième Cycle, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. 20th century literature and literary theory; Francophone studies; literature and film. Author of The Barthes Effect, 1987; Alger ou la maladie de la mémoire, 1997; Experimental Nations or, The Invention of the Maghreb, 2003 . Rochambeau House, room 104; phone (401) 863-6470.>>More information

MICHEL-ANDRÉ BOSSY, Professor, Ph.D. Yale University. Comparative literature; medieval French and provençal literature; lyrical poetry from the 11th to the 15th century; social interpretations of literature. Author of Medieval Debate Poetry, 1987. Currently working on a book manuscript on the troubadour Guiraut Riquier. Rochambeau House, room 104, phone (401) 863-2567. >> More Information

NATHALIE ÉTOKÉ, Visiting Assistant Professor. Ph.D Northwestern University. Contemporary African cinema and fiction. African American and African feminist theories. Portrayals of gender, sexuality, identity and the struggle for transcendence in postcolonial Francophone literature. Postcolonial and diasporas studies ( France, Africa, Antilles). Author of the novel, Un amour sans papiers (1999). Rochambeau House, room 311; phone (401) 863- 6494

SANDA GOLOPENTIA, Professor, Ph.D. University of Bucharest. 20th century literature/culture; Francophone Studies (Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, U.S.); 17th-20th century theater; critical theory; semiotics; philosophy of language. Author of, among other books: Les Voies de la pragmatique, 1988; co-author (with M. Martinez Thomas) of Voir les didascalies, 1994. Currently working on a book entitled Histoires de dires. Rochambeau House, room 208; phone (401) 863-2740. >> More information

YOUENN KERVENNIC, Lecturer, Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Culture and Civilization of France and French speaking countries; otherness and travel. Author of a novel L’appel de la mer, 2000. Currently working on a travelogue: Errance. Brown-In-Paris Resident Director in Paris 2007-2008. >>More information

VIRGINIA KRAUSE, Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison.   Renaissance literature, particularly early modern romance and the history of leisure.   Currently working on confessional practices and witchcraft.   Author of Idle Pursuits: Literature and oisiveté in the French Renaissance . Rochambeau House, room 201; phone (401) 863-3070. >>More information

THANGAM RAVINDRANATHAN, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania and the Université de Paris VIII. Travel writings in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature; Comparative literature, constructions of otherness in travel writings, "post-exotic" travelogues. Rochambeau House, room 319; phone (401) 863-6494.

STÉPHANIE RAVILLON, Visiting Lecturer, Ph.D Université de Dijon. Postcolonial literature ; 20th century French culture ; translation. Rochambeau House, room 304 A, phone (401) 863- 2850.

ANDREW ROSS, Adjunct Lecturer and Director of the Language Resource Center(LRC), Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Language technology and pedagogy, medieval literature and culture; religious narrative and allegory; late medieval poetics. CIT 203; phone (401) 863-7010.>>More information

PIERRE SAINT-AMAND, Professor, Francis Wayland Professor. Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University. 18th century literature, especially the novel; 17th and 18th century culture; critical theory. Among his publications are: Les Lois de l'hostilité, 1992; The Libertine's Progress, 1994. Rochambeau House, room 205; Phone (401) 863-3035.>>More information

GRETCHEN SCHULTZ, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Cornell University. 19th and 20th century literature, especially poetry and fiction; feminist approaches; gay and lesbian studies; contemporary literary theory. She is the author of The Gendered Lyric: Subjectivity and Difference in 19th Century French Poetry, 1999. She is currently working on a book project entitled: La Femme Aura Gomorrhe: Lesbian Literature in France, 1800-2000. Rochambeau House, room 229; phone (401) 863-3753. >>More information

LEWIS SEIFERT, Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Michigan. 17th century literature; gender and sexuality studies; cultural studies; comparative approaches to folklore and the literary fairy tale.  Author of Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715 (1996).  He is currently completing a book-length study: Un homme enfin! Masculinity and Marginality in Seventeenth-Century France . Rochambeau House, room 230; phone (401) 863-1029. >> More information

SHOGGY T. WARYN, Senior Lecturer. Ph.D. University of Iowa. French language and French film; media history and technology; cross-cultural studies; on-line pedagogy and teaching. Rochambeau House, room 304 B, (401) 863-2494 >>More information

ANNIE J. WIART, Senior Lecturer, MA, Brown University. Theoretical linguistics; applied linguistics in teaching French; 20th century French culture. Rochambeau House, room 306; Phone (401) 863-3222. >> More information

Emeriti/Emeritae

INGE WIMMERS, Research Professor of French Studies, Ph.D. Columbia University. 17th, 19th and 20th century literature; literary theory and analysis; poetics of the novel; reader-oriented approaches to literature. Her books include: Poetics of Reading: Approaches to the Novel , Proust and Emotion:  The Importance of Affect in "A la recherche du temps perdu, " and Approaches to Teaching Proust's Fiction and Criticism . >> More information

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