Assistant Professor of French
Interests include media (literature, cinema, telephone, radio, internet) and cultural studies (popular cultures, reception); Francophone cultures in Africa and North America
Sense and the Senses 2017: Conference Committee
Associate Professor of French, Adjunct Professor of History, Director of European Studies Institute
Interests include 20th-century French cultural history; film studies; cinema, society, and politics during the Popular Front and Vichy; literature and ideology
(CNRS - Paris IV)
Founder of the literary research website Fabula, Alexandre Gefen has published the volumes La Mimèsis (2002), Inventer une vie (2014), and Vies imaginaires, Anthologie de la biographie littéraire, La Fabrique littéraire l’individu (2015) and co-edited several works such as Frontières de la fiction (2002), L’Émotion, puissance de la littérature ? (2012) and Empathie et esthétique (2013). He has coordinated an international research project entitled “Pouvoir des arts” funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, and has published widely in many critical journals and literary magazines such as La Nouvelle Revue française, Les Temps modernes, Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine, and Magazine littéraire.
Associate Professor of French
Interests include the 20th-century French and francophone novel in its sociocultural context, narrative dynamics, reading practices
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study
Interests include 20th-century literature and culture, especially the novel, postcolonial theory, and the literatures of Africa, the African diaspora
Associate Professor of French, Director of Graduate Studies for French/Francophone Studies
Research Interests 20th and 21st French-language writing in France, the Caribbean, North-Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa; literary theory; the poetics and politics of fiction; postcolonial and transfrontier approaches to literature