Professor, French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1982
Courses Routinely Taught: Language courses, intermediate
and advanced; introduction to contemporary French culture (Prises de vues);
introduction to literature: French literature (Que sais-je?) and
Francophone literatures (Paris-Outre mer); and advanced courses
in culture and literature: the 17th and 18th century, North African literature
Scholarship:
18th-century France, primarily the author Marivaux, with particular emphasis
on the development of the novel, its rhetoric, its methods and ideologies.
North-African literature, with particular emphasis on the questions concerning
the effects of French colonialism, the questions of violence, modernity
and tradition, national and personal identity.
Recently workin both fields has come together to inform my current research
in orientalist and colonialist discourse.
Publications:
Marivaux journaux et fiction, Orléans, Éditions Paradigme,
Collection Références, 2001 ; articles and reviews in journals
such as Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth Century World Studies
, Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century , L'École des Lettres
, Francophonie Plurielle, Revue Marivaux; essays in volumes published
in Europe, North Africa, and North America.