Department Chair

James Austin, Associate Professor of French, Chair of the French Department

James Austin

Associate Professor of French, Chair of the French Department

Proust • French film


Faculty

Ramla Bedoui , Visiting Assistant Professor, Research Affiliate

Ramla Bedoui

Visiting Assistant Professor, Research Affiliate

Baudelaire Mallarmé, Nineteenth Century France, Poetry, History, Memory, History of art, Revolution and shaping of the nation • French theory • Colonialism, postcolonialism, Maghreb/North Africa and Orientalism, Arab Spring and Revolutions • Minorities in North Africa and France: Slavery and Race in France and North Africa, Native North African/Amazighe/Berber, religious minorities, LGBTQ+ Feminism in France and in the francophone and Arab-speaking spaces, African Studies


Jacob Levi, Visiting Lecturer in French

Jacob  Levi

Visiting Lecturer in French


Robyn Pront, Visiting Assistant Professor in French

Robyn Pront

Visiting Assistant Professor in French

20th-century French literature and history, especially representations of war


Rémi Saracino, Fulbright Fellow, French Teaching Assistant

Rémi  Saracino

Fulbright Fellow, French Teaching Assistant

Anglophone World & Linguistics • Université Gustave Eiffel


Catherine J. Spencer, Elizabeth S. Kruidenier ’48 Professor Emeritus of French

Catherine J. Spencer

Elizabeth S. Kruidenier ’48 Professor Emeritus of French

17th century French literature • French cinema • Theory (structuralism & Post); Gay and Lesbian/Queer theory • "Bande dessinee" - Franco-Belgian comics