Faculty

Unless otherwise noted, the members of the Faculty listed below will be offering courses in French in 2012-2013. 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.

	JUSTIN IZZO, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., The Program in Literature, Duke University. Anthropology, race, and genre in the French Atlantic world; ethnographic narrative and the novel; Francophone literature and cultural studies (West Africa, Caribbean, La Réunion); documentary film; narratives of globalization; utopia. He is currently completing a book about the relationship between anthropology and fiction in the French Atlantic. >>More information Rochambeau House, room 229; phone (401) 863-3753
	YOUENN KERVENNIC, Senior Lecturer. Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Culture and Civilization of France; otherness and travel, teacher training. Author of a novel L'appel de la mer (2000) and a travelogue Le routard en smoking blanc (2011). Currently working on a short story La tonne. Brown-In-France Resident Director 2012-2013 >>More information
	VIRGINIA KRAUSE, Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Renaissance literature, particularly early modern romance, witchcraft and the history of leisure. Author of Idle Pursuits: Literature and oisiveté in the French Renaissance (2003). Her current projects include an edition (with Christian Martin and Eric Macphail) of Jean Bodin's De la démonomanie des sorciers and a study of confessional practices and Witchcraft. >>More information Rochambeau House, room 201; phone (401) 863-3070
	JOHN MOREAU, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in French Studies, MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College and a PhD in French from Princeton University. He is currently completing a book on the representation of divine judgment in fourteenth-century French poetry and also at work on a new project about hostages and prisoners of war in medieval literature. Other scholarly interests include English, medieval Occitan, Italian and Latin texts, literary ethics and debate poetry. Rochambeau House, room 319; phone (401) 863-6495.
	STÉPHANIE RAVILLON, Lecturer. Ph.D. University of Burgundy, France. French language, culture and society ; pedagogy and teaching with technology; teacher training; translation. >>More information Rochambeau House, room 311; phone (401) 863-6494.
	THANGAM RAVINDRANATHAN, Manning Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania and Université de Paris VIII. 20th- and 21st-century literature and criticism/theory; poetry; narratives of travel; the contemporary novel; the question of the animal. Author of a book titled Là où je ne suis pas: récits de dévoyage (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2012). >>More information Rochambeau House, room 208; phone (401) 863-2740.
	PIERRE SAINT-AMAND, Professor, Francis Wayland Professor. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University. 18th-century novel; philosophy of the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; literary criticism and theory. His publications include: Diderot, Le labyrinthe de la relation (1984), Séduire ou la passion des Lumières (1987; English trans. The Libertine's Progress, 1994), Les Lois de l'hostilité: La politique à l'âge des Lumières (1992; English trans. The Laws of Hostility, 1996). He is the editor of these special issues of Stanford French Review: Diderot; Le Roman au XVIIIe siècle: Postérités; Autonomy and the Enlightenment (1984, 1987, 1993), and of Thérèse philosophe; Confession d'une jeune fille ('Bibliothèque de la Pléiade', 2000, 2005). His most recent publication is The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment (2011). Director of Graduate Studies 2012-2013. >>More information Rochambeau House, room 205; phone (401) 863-3035.
	GRETCHEN SCHULTZ, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Cornell University. 19th-century poetry and fiction; gender and sexuality studies; literary theory; sociology of literature. Author of Sapphic Fathers: Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France (forthcoming) and The Gendered Lyric: Subjectivity and Difference in 19th-Century French Poetry (1999); editor of An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry from France: In English Translation with French Text (2008); co-editor of Marie Krysinska: Innovations poétiques et combats littéraires (2010). Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors Program. >>More information Rochambeau House, room 204; phone (401) 863-3753.
	LEWIS SEIFERT, Chair, Department of French Studies, 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: Nostalgic Utopias (1996) and Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France (2009); and co-editor with Todd Reeser of Entre Hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities in Culture and Theory (2008) and with Domna Stanton of Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers (2011). His current projects include a study of the trickster in North-American Francophone oral traditions and a book-length study, Classical Modernities: Confronting Past and Present in Seventeenth-Century France. >> More information Rochambeau House, room 104; phone (401) 863-1029.
	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. Curator of the Providence French Film Festival and the French film collection at Brown. On leave Fall 2012. >>More information
	ANNIE J. WIART, Senior Lecturer, MA, Brown University. Theory and practice of foreign language teaching and learning; French language and culture; teacher training. Brown-in-France Campus Director 2012-2013. >> More information Rochambeau House, room 306; phone (401) 863-3222
	DAVID WILLS, Professor, PhD, Université de Paris III. David specializes in modernist literature as well as film theory and comparative literature. His major ideas are developed in Prosthesis (Stanford, 1995), and subsequently in Dorsality(Minnesota, 2008), where he argues that the animal, or specifically human body should be understood as a prosthetic articulation of “natural” and “artificial”; and that our conception of the human as intact natural entity that subsequently comes into contact with inanimate forms of technology does not account for the prosthetic relations that govern the ways we in fact operate in the world. The forthcoming Inanimation expands those ideas via interpretations of the “artificial life” that function in cases such as autobiography and poetic writing, as well as music, love and war. He is currently developing further work on sound, and a series of essays on the death penalty. Other published work includes two co-authored volumes (Screen/Play, with Peter Brunette, 1989, and Writing Pynchon, with Alec McHoul, 1990), a co-edited book entitledDeconstruction and the Visual Arts (with Peter Brunette, 1994), and an edited volume on Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou (2000). He has published some 65 book chapters and journal articles. Wills is also a translator (The Gift of Death, Right of Inspection, Counterpath, and The Animal That Therefore I Am) and interpreter (Matchbook, Stanford, 2005) of the work of Jacques Derrida. He is a member of the Derrida Seminars Translation Project and an International Fellow of the London Graduate School. Rochambeau House, room 230; phone (401) 863-2741

Emeriti/Emeritae

	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: Rimbaud, Visions and Habitations (1983); Marx and Modern Fiction (1989); Visionary Fictions (1996); Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001 (2010). >>More information
	RÉDA BENSMAIA, Professor, University Professor. Doctorat de Troisième Cycle, École Pratique des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. 20th-century literature and literary theory; postcolonial Francophone studies; literature and film. Author of The Barthes Effect (1987); The Year of Passages (1995); Alger ou la maladie de la mémoire (1997); Experimental Nations or The Invention of the Maghreb (2003). Editor of Gilles Deleuze (1989) and Recommending Deleuze (1998); Deleuze et le cinéma (Cinémas, Journal of Film Studies, 2007); Littérature et Philosophie (Special issue of SITES, Forthcoming). >>More information
	MICHEL-ANDRÉ BOSSY,Professor. Ph.D. Yale University. Comparative literature. Medieval French, Anglo-Norman, and Occitan poetry and prose. 12th- to 15th-century literary patronage and court politics. Cultural connections between France and its neighbors, especially during the age of the troubadours and the Hundred Years' War. >> More Information
	LAURA DURAND
	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.>> More information
	HENRY MAJEWSKI, Prof. Majewski taught at Brown for 32 years. He was Chair and Acting Chair of French Studies for 7 years, and after retirement directed the Howard Foundation at Brown University for several years. His field is 19th century French literature with an emphasis on Romanticism and the interrelationships of art and literature. His publications include books and articles on romantic literature and art, an edition of essays on Postmodernism and Flaubert, and translations of French novels by Sand and Vigny.
	BEVERLY RIDGLEY,
	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