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André Aciman

17th-Century Literature, Roman d'Analyse, Proust.

Esther Allen

Translation, 19th and 20th century Latin American and French literature, life writing (autobiography and biography), and issues in anglophone globalization.

Maxime Blanchard

20th Century and Contemporary French and Québécois Literature, and Theory

Francesca Canadé Sautman

Medieval and 16th Century Literature and Folklore, Queer Theory, French and Francophone Cultural Studies, Historical Anthropology, Folklore

Jerry W. Carlson

Narrative theory, global independent film, and the cinemas of the Americas.

Mary Ann Caws

Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary Literature and the Arts, Translation.

Peter Consenstein

The group Oulipo, contemporary and experimental French poetry, translation, literary theory

Rachel Corkle

The 18th- and 19th-century French novel, Libertinage, Romanticism, Romantic ballet

Sam Di Iorio

French Cinema, Film Theory, 20th Century Literature, Philosophy, Intellectual History

Nathalie Etoke

Francophone Sub-Saharan African Literature and Cinema, African Studies, Black French Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Africana Existential Thought, LGBT Studies in Africa and its Diaspora, Cultural Studies, Contemporary French issues.

David Andrew Jones

19th and 20th century French theater, 20th and 21st century French novel, Queer Theory, Feminisms

Amr Kamal

19th and 20th century French literature, Arabic and Francophone literature and media, Literature from the Mashreq (Egypt, Lebanon and Syria), Mediterranean studies, postcolonial and empire studies, human geography, urban studies, material culture, translation and cinema studies

Andrea Khalil

Literature and Film from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt, Postcolonial studies, Twentieth Century French Literature, Modern Painting of North Africa and Middle East

Erec R. Koch

“17th-Century French Literature and Culture; Early Modern Philosophy; History of Science and Medicine; Theory; Digital Humanities”

Wayne Koestenbaum

Poetry and poetics; modern and contemporary literature; music; film; visual art; queer studies; cultural studies; performance; the essay; autobiography.

Max Kramer

Specialization: gender and sexuality, semiotics, metaphor, translation, and literary criticism in combination with cultural studies and anthropology. 19th- to 21st-century French literature, postcolonial North Africa, modern/postmodern literatures of Europe, the Muslim world, the Americas.

Marnia Lazreg

French colonial history; North African studies with a focus on Algeria; Women in The Middle East and North Africa; Feminist and Foucauldian theories; Albert Camus and the philosophy of the absurd."

Bettina Lerner

19th-century French literature, cultural history, popular culture, Translation, Theory

Giancarlo Lombardi

Literary Theory, Film Theory, Gender and Feminist Theory, Italian Cultural Studies

Clément Mbom

African and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures and francophone

Sara McDougall

Medieval, Medieval law, cultural studies, gender studies, legal history

Nancy K. Miller

Contemporary autobiography and autobiography theory, women's writing (American and French), 20th-century cultural history (after 1945), feminist theory.

Ali Nematollahy

19th Century Literature and Social and Political Thought, Cultural Studies, Theory, Cinema

Bernd Renner

16th-Century Literature, Early Modern Literature, Satire, Dialogue and Dialogism, Rabelais, Montaigne, Clement Marot

Helena Rosenblatt

French Intellectual History, The Enlightenment, Protestantism, French Political Thought

Rémy Roussetzki

19th-Century Literature, Comparative English and French Romanticism, Aesthetics and Philosophy

Thomas C. Spear

Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, Autobiography.

Domna C. Stanton

Seventeenth-Century French literature and culture; Early-Modern Studies; Women Writers; Critical Theory; Feminist theory; Human Rights, 16th Century Literature

Karen Sullivan

18th-century French literature; Women’s Writing of the Ancien Regime; Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives on the 18th century; Critical Language Pedagogy

Gary Wilder

French empire, colonial state, hist anth, soc/pol theory; W Africa, Antilles, Europe