Faculty in French & Italian
Graduate Faculty Robert Barsky (Ph.D. McGill), Professor of French and Comparative Literature. Canadian and Québec studies; literature and culture; radical literature and theory; language theory; immigration. email Jérôme Brillaud(Ph.D. Harvard), Assistant Professor of French. 17th- and 18th-century theater and philosophy. email Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller (Ph.D. Emory), Associate Professor of French. 20th century French literature and culture; Jewish studies; feminist theory. email [on leave fall 2011 and spring 2012] William Franke (Ph.D. Stanford), Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian. Religion and Literature; Philosophy and Theory; Dante and Epic Tradition email [on research leave 2011] Marc Froment-Meurice (Docteur ès lettres, Université de Nice), Professor of French. Modern poetry and poetics; philosophy and literature. email [on leave fall 2011] Paul B. Miller (Ph.D. Emory), Assistant Professor of French, specializing in Caribbean Studies. Comparative approaches to Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean literature. Writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Marie Chauvet, and Maryse Condé. email Andrea Mirabile (Ph.D. UNC-CH), Assistant Professor of Italian. 20th century Italian literature and culture, visual arts, and literary theory. Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian. email [on leave fall 2011] Anthère Nzabatsinda (Ph.D. Montréal), Associate Professor of French. Francophone literature; linguistics and literature. email Lynn Ramey (Ph.D. Harvard), Associate Professor of French. Medieval and Renaissance French literature and culture. French film and filmic representations of history. Chair, Department of French and Italian. email Virginia M. Scott (Ph.D. Emory), Associate Professor of French. French language and literature; applied linguistics. Director of Undergraduate Studies in French. email Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (Ph.D. Brown), Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French. 18th and 19th century literature and culture, Jazz Age, Black Diaspora Women Writers. Director of African American Studies. Director of the Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies. email [in Aix-en-Provence fall 2011] Holly Tucker (Ph.D. Wisconsin), Associate Professor of French. Director of Graduate Studies. Early-modern medicine, literature, gender; 17th century cultural studies. email
Lecturers in French & Italian Patricia Armstrong (Ph.D. Yale), Senior Lecturer in French. 17th century French literature; Québécois literature; pedagogy. Director, Pre-major Advising. email Tracy Barrett (Ph.D. UC-Berkeley), Senior Lecturer in Italian. Italian language and literature; Medieval literature. email Elsa Filosa(Ph.D. UNC-CH), Senior Lecturer in Italian. Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Dante. email Martine Prieto (Ph.D. Paris VII). Senior Lecturer in French. French language, culture and literature. email Susan Kevra (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts), Senior Lecturer in French and American Studies. Québécois literature and culture, and comparative literature; French travel writing. email Francesca Mirti, (DA, SUNY- Stony Brook), Lecturer in Italian. Language acquisition and pedagogy. Rachel Nisselson (Ph.D. Vanderbilt), Senior Lecturer in French. 20th -century Francophone Literature of the Maghreb, French Jewish Studies, Pre-major academic advising. email Nathalie Dieu Porter(D.E.A. Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium), Senior Lecturer in French. French language and culture. email Mary Beth Raycraft (Ph.D. NYU), Senior Lecturer in French. Interrelationship of literature and culture in 19th century France; French civilization. email Lisa Weiss (Ph.D. UC-Santa Cruz), Lecturer in French. 19th- and 20th-Century French Literature and culture, Francophone Literature of the Maghreb, Paris Urban Studies. Assistant Director of the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies. email
Faculty working in related fields Michael D. Bess Department of History. Twentieth-century European history with emphasis on the social and cultural impacts of technological change. Lauren Clay Department of History. History of early modern France with a focus on culture, society, and empire Katherine B. Crawford Department of History. Gender history with emphasis on early modern France and Europe Joel Harrington Department of History. Reformation and early modern Germany with emphasis on social history, particularly marriage, children, and the family. Kelly Oliver Department of Philosophy. 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, especially Nietzsche, and Contemporary French Philosophy, particularly Kristeva. Matthew Ramsey Department of History. France in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and modern European intellectual and cultural history. Philip D. Rasico Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Hispano-Romance Linguistics, Romance Lingusitics, Catalan Language and Linguistics, Language and Toponymy of Roussillon (Northern Catalonia).
Director of Vanderbilt-in-France Maïté Monchal (Ph.D. Arizona), Resident Director of Vanderbilt-in-France. 20th century French literature and gender studies.
Emeriti faculty
Barbara C. Bowen Emerita Professor of French and Comparative Literature. French Renaissance Literature.
Administration Véronique Homer Department Administrator
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