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Courses • Study
Abroad • Language Media Center • Newsletter • Support Us
Cinzia Blum (Ph.D. Cornell): Italian language, literature, and culture; Italian women writers; literature of immigration in Italy; futurism; modernism; translation
Deborah Contrada (Ph.D. Harvard): Italian language and literature; Medieval Lyric Poetry, Italian women writers; Italian American studies
Anny Dominique Curtius (Ph.D. Université de Montréal): Francophone literatures of the Caribbean, West Africa and the Indian Ocean, Postcolonial and Diaspora Studies, African Cinema, Comparative Caribbean literary theory and cultural studies (history, anthropology), Caribbean religions.
Peter Eubanks (Ph.D. Princeton): Renaissance lyric poetry: medieval and early modern literature and culture; cross-cultural encounters; contemporary French civilization
Wendelin Guentner (Ph.D. Chicago): Nineteenth-century studies; the novel; travel narrative; aesthetics and interarts discourse; word and image relations
L. Kathy Heilenman (Ph.D. Louisville): Second language acquisition; second language pedagogy
Geoffrey Hope (Ph.D. Pennsylvania): Pedagogy; Renaissance; Scholarly editing
Jack Johnson (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley): Nineteenth-century studies
Michel Laronde (Ph.D. Indiana): Post-colonial theory and criticism; literatures of immigration in France; Francophone literatures (Maghreb, Caribbean, Québec)
Katja Liimatta (Ph.D. Pennsylvania): History, feminine historiography and feminism; psychoanalysis
Roland Racevskis (Ph.D. Pennsylvania): Seventeenth-century theater, prose and cultural history; twentieth-century French narrative and theory
Rosemarie Scullion (Ph.D. Wisconsin): Twentieth-century French literature; Contemporary literary theory; Women's Studies; French historical and cultural studies
Arne Seim (M.A. South Dakota): First-year Italian
Downing A. Thomas (Ph.D. New York University): Eighteenth-century French literature; fiction and philosophy; aesthetics; opera
Steven Ungar (Ph.D. Cornell): Twentieth-century French fiction and poetry; film; the history of literary criticism; France between the wars
Department Secretary: Rosemary Stenzel
Chair of the Department: Roland Racevskis
Director of Graduate Studies: Anny Curtius
Director of French Undergraduate Studies: Michel Laronde
Director of Italian Studies: Debbie Contrada
Jacques Bourgeacq, emeritus (Ph.D. Iowa): Francophone literatures (sub-Saharan, Indian Ocean); French language and stylistics
Florindo Cerreta, emeritus (Ph.D. Columbia): Italian studies
Simone Delaty, emerita (Doctorat, Bordeaux): nineteenth-century French literature, poetry, literature of Québec
John T. Nothnagle, emeritus (Ph.D. Wisconsin): French Renaissance literature
Janet Gurkin Altman, emerita (Ph.D. Yale): eighteenth-century studies; epistolary literature in comparative contexts; early modern French women writers; French theater; film and television