Department of French

Charles M. Affron (ret.)
Professor, Romanticism, 19th-century novel, cinema.

Ph.D., Yale; B.A., Brandeis.

Major Interests: U.S. and European cinema; French romanticism; narrative and readership; cinema and stylistics; studio system; cultural history.

Selected Works:

Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life (Scribner 2001)
Sets in Motion: Art Direction and Film Narrative, with Mirella Jona Affron (Rutgers University Press, 1995)
Fellini's "8 1/2" (Rutgers University Press, 1987)
Divine Garbo (Ramsay, 1985)
Cinema and Sentiment (University of Chicago Press, 1982)
Star Acting: Gish, Garbo, Davis (E. P. Dutton, 1977)
A Stage for Poets: Studies in the Theater of Hugo and Musset (Princeton University Press, 1971)
Patterns of Failure in "La Comédie humaine" (Yale University Press, 1966).

Fellowships/Honors/Grants: Fulbright; National Endowment for the Humanities; French Government, American Council of Learned Societies.

Emily Apter
Professor, French

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Ph.D., Princeton.

Major Interests: 19th- and 20th-century French and comparative literatures; Francophone studies; cultural studies; critical theory.

Selected Works:

"The Human in the Humanities", October 96 (Spring 2001).
"D´une fin de siècle à l´autre" Critique 637-638 (June-July 2000).
Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (University of Chicago Press, 1999).
Fetishism as Cultural Discourse, ed. with William Pietz (Cornell University Press, 1991).
Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France (Cornell University Press, 1991).
André Gide and the Codes of Homotextuality (Stanford French and Italian Studies 48, Anma Libri, 1987).
The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (Princeton University Press, January 2006) http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/8064.html
Translation/Transnation (editor)
elected in Dec. 2005 to 5 year term on the executive committee of the MLA Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century

Grants: Mellon, Rockefeller, ACLS, NEH, College Art Association., Guggenheim (2004)

Aline Baehler
Language Lecturer, French.
Licence ès Lettres, Geneva; D.E.A., Paris; Ph.D., New York.

Major Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; second-language acquisition.

Selected works:

Portrait de l'artiste en criminel. Variations sur l'acte gratuit (Littératures, Université Blaise Pascal, 1998).
Femme-automate, création poétique et kitsch: Lecture de Nadja (Du romantisme au surréalisme. Statuts et enjeux du récit poétique, CRLM, Université Blaise Pascal, 1998).
L'échange des femmes dans La Route des Flandres (La Revue des Lettres modernes, Claude Simon 2, 1996).
Initiation. Du Parc d'Ermenonville à la Mer de Sable (La Nouvelle Revue française 506 & 507, 1995).
Poétique du transport et transports poétiques (Francographies, Fordham University, 1994).
Les autobiographies d'Alain Grobbe-Grillet et de Nathalie Sarraute (Dalhousie French Studies, 1990).
Aspects du personnage simonien : Corinne (L'Esprit Créateur, 1987).

Fellowships/Honors/Grants: Bourse de la Société Académique de Genève, Bourse de relève du Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique Suisse, Bourse de l'Association des Femmes Universitaires, bourse de la Fondation Holderbank (Suisse), Direct Research Support grant from the University Research Council, Vanderbilt University.

Michel Beaujour
Professor, French; Associate Director, Institute of French Studies.
Agrégé de l´Université, Licence ès Lettres, Paris.

Major Interests: Renaissance literature; contemporary poetry; literary theory; stylistics; rhetoric; poetics; comparative and ethno-poetics.

Selected Works:

Terreur et rhétorique: Breton, Bataille, Leiris, Paulhan, Barthes & Cie, autour du surréalisme (Jean-Michel Place, 1999).
Désublimation: de la transmutation à la rhétorique (Jean-Michel Place, 1995).
Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait, English translation of Miroirs d´encre (New York University Press, 1991).
Miroirs d´encre (Collection Poétique, Editions du Seuil, 1980).
Le Jeu de Rabelais (L´Herne, 1969).
La France contemporaine (Macmillan, 1965; Armand Colin, 1966).

Fellowships/Honors: Fulbright, Guggenheim; Officier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Claudie Bernard
Associate Professor, French

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Ph.D. (French literature), Princeton; Doctorat de Troisième Cycle (Comparative Literature), Paris; Agrégation de Lettres Modernes (Humanities), Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes, Licence de Lettres Modernes, École Normale Supérieure (Sèvres).

Major Interests: 19th-century French literature; 19th-century novel; history and society.

Selected Works:

Penser la famille au dix-neuvième siècle , Presses de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, forthcoming 2007.

Sentimental Education by Flaubert, annotated edition and introduction, New York , Barnes & Noble, Classics, 2006.

« Raison et déraison vendettale,» in C. Massol, ed., Stendhal, Balzac, Dumas, un récit romantique ? , Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2006.

« Michelet : famille,» in V. Kogan, ed., Michelet, inventaire critque des notions-clés , L'Esprit créateur , 2006.

In collaboration with D. Powell and M. Reid, Special Issue George Sand, Romanic Review , 2005.

Les Chouans by Balzac, annotated edition and preface, Paris , Livre de Poche, 1997.

Le Passé recomposé, le roman historique français au dix-neuvième siècle , Paris, Hachette, 1996.

Le Chouan romanesque, Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Hugo , Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1989

Tom Bishop
Florence Lacaze Gould Professor of French Literature; Professor, Comparative Literature; Director, Center for French Civilization and Culture.
Ph.D., California (Berkeley); M.A., Maryland; B.A., New York.

Major Interests: Contemporary theatre and novel; avant-garde movements; cultural history; modern theater; contemporary France; Samuel Beckett.

Selected Works:
Books:

* From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel (New York University Press, 1997).
* Le Passeur d´océan: carnets d´un ami américain (Payot, 1989; Japanese translation, 1992).
* Huis Clos de Sartre (Hachette, 1975).
* Pirandello and the French Theater (New York University, 1960, 1970; Peter Owebs, 1961).

Books edited:

* Editor, Remembering Roland Barthes...20 Years Later (New York University, 2003).
* Editor, Les antiaméricanismes (New York University, 2001).
* Editor, L'Amérique des Français (with C. Fauré) (François Bourin, 1992).
* Samuel Beckett , ed. with R. Federman (L´Herne, 1976; Livre de Poche, 1985).
* Editor, L´Avant-Garde Théâtrale: French Theater Since 1950 (New York University Press, 1975)
* General editor, Classiques d'aujourd'hui (Gallimard, 1986 -1989).
* General editor, Littérature et culture françaises , Films for the Humanities.

Contributions to books:

* “Theater and Theory,” The Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought L. Kritzman, ed., (Columbia U. Press, 2006).
* "Barthes and Un/Popular Theater," Remembering Roland Barthes....20 Years Later , (NYU, 2003), 28-45.
* "Staging Beckett in France at the End of the Twentieth Century," Samuel Beckett: Endlessness in the Year 2000 (Fin sans fin en l'an 2000), A. Moorjani & C. Veit, eds. (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002), 42-47.
* "La Vie errante: les tournées de la compagnie Renaud-Barrault," Renaud-Barrault (Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1999).
* "François Mitterrand et les Etats-Unis," François Mitterrand – Paix et développement (UNESCO, 1998).
* “Jean Genet's Play Les Nègres is Performed in Paris. The Theater of the Absurd,” A New History of French Literature , D.Hollier, ed. (Harvard U. Press, 1989; Bordas, 1993).
* "Transpositions pour la télévision: transmutations des œuvres de Beckett," Samuel Beckett (Privat, Revue d'Esthétique, 1986).
* "Blin on Beckett," On Beckett: Essays and Criticism, S.E.Gontarski, ed. (Grove Press, 1986).
* "The Temptation of Silence," As No Other Dare Fail , J. Calder, ed. (Riverrun, 1986).

Recent articles:

* "Topologie d'une reprise ou le retour de Robbe-Grillet," Critique , 651-652 (2001), 595-604.
* "Theater and the Everyday in France: Le Théâtre du Quotidien," The Art of the Everyday. The Quotidian in Postwar French Culture , Lynn Gumpert, ed. (NYU Press, 1997).
* "France and the Need for Cultural Exception," Journal of International Law and Politics , 29, 1-2 (1996-97).
* "I Love You, Moi Non Plus," SubStance , 76/77 (1995).
* "Le Théâtre sorti de l'ombre," French Cultural Studies (1994).

Fellowships/Honors: Grand Prix de l´Académie Française; Fulbright Senior Research Scholar; National Endowment for the Humanities, French Government, French-American Foundation, and Florence Gould Foundation grants; OBIE Award for achievement in Off-Broadway Theatre; Officier, Légion d'Honneur; Commandeur, Ordre National du Mérite; Officier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres; Officier, Palmes Académiques; Director of NEH Summer Seminars, 1977, 1979, 1982,1985.

Benoît Bolduc
Associate Professor, Early Modern French Literature
Ph.D., Montréal.

Major Interests : history and historiography of theatre and court festivals (16 th -17 th c.), performance, poetry, literature and the arts.

Selected Works :

Texte et représentation: les arts du spectacle (XVIe s. –XVIIIe s.) ( Texte , 33/34, 2003).
Andromède au rocher. Fortune théâtrale d'une image en France et en Italie (1587- 1712) (Olschki, 2002).
Andromède délivrée (Biblio 17, 1992).
“ In fvmo dare lvcem : Les Triomphes faictz a l'entrée du Roy a Chenonceau (1560),” French Royal Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007).
“From Marvel to Camp: Medusa for the Twenty-first Century,” Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music , 10, 1, April 2005.
“Une tragédie de Corneille au service de la ‘riforma melodrammatica': le Perseo de P.I. Martello,” Studi Secenteschi , 34, 1993.

Fellowships/Honors/Grants : Visiting Fellowship (New College, Oxford ), Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, Grant from the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ).

J. Michael Dash
Professor, French; Director, Africana Studies Program.
Ph.D. University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica; B.A. University of the West Indies.

Major Interests: Francophone/Caribbean Literature; literary theory; translation French to English.

Selected Works:

Culture and Customs of Haiti (Greenwood Press, 2001).
Libete: A Haiti Anthology, Ed. with Charles Arthur (Latin American Bureau, 1999).
The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (University Press of Virginia, 1998).
Haiti and the United States (MacMillan, 1997).
Edouard Glissant (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Literature and Ideology in Haiti: 1915-1961 (MacMillan, 1981).
Jacques Stephen Alexis (Black Images, 1975).

Awards/Grants: U.W.I. Award for Excellence in Research; Senior Fulbright Hays Award, Senior Fulbright Research Award.

Anne Deneys-Tunney
Professor of French Literature in the French Department at NYU
Regular Visiting Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Paris 8, in France.
Docteur de l´Université, D.E.A., Paris VII; Agrégation de Lettres Modernes, Ancienne élève de l´École Normale Supérieure; Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes, Paris VII; Licence ès Lettres, Paris IV.

Publications :

Le personnage, tache aveugle dans Corinne de Madame de Staël », La fabrique du personnage , dir. Françoise Lavocat, Editions Honoré Champion, 2006.
La république des femmes dans le De l'amour de Destutt de Tracy », Femmes des Lumières, Dix-huitième siècle , 36, 2004.
L'épicurisme. L'épicurisme des Lumières , Dix-huitième siècle , n° 35, coéd., Presses Universitaires de France/CNRS, 2003.
Marivaux et la pensée du plaisir », Dix-huitième siècle , 35, 2003.
Meilcour ou le libertin « partagé » selon Crébillon », L'esprit créateur , n° « Le libertin », dir. Jean-Pierre Dubost, 2003 .
La sémiotisation du corps féminin dans le roman libertin du XVIII° siècle », The Eighteenth century body, éd.Angelica Goodden, Peter Lang, 2002.
Le roman de la matière dans Pygmalion ou la Statue animée d'A.F.Deslandes », Etre matérialiste au XVIII° siècle , Presses Universitaires de France, 1999.
Volney, Œuvres III : Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte , Corpus-Fayard, coéd.1998.
Destutt de Tracy et l'Idéologie , revue Corpus, n°26-27, coéd.1994.
Destutt de Tracy : Traité de la volonté et de ses effets -De l'amour ,1818, Corpus-Fayard, coéd.1994.
Ecritures du corps, de Descartes à Laclos , collection Ecriture, Presses Universitaires de France, 1992.
Destutt de Tracy, Œuvres 1798-1802 , Corpus-Fayard, coéd., 1992.
Volney, Œuvres I et II, Corpus-Fayard, coéd. 1990.
Volney , revue Corpus, n° 11-12, coéd. 1989.
The entire collection du Corpus des Oeuvres de philosophie en langue française (Corpus-Fayard) directed by Michel Serres and the review of Philosophy Corpus, was awarded the Prix Spécial de l'Académie Française in 1995.

THEATER
In 1997, she was selected as a Permanent Member of the experimental branch of the Lincoln Center, The Lincoln Center Director's Lab. There, Anne Deneys-Tunney has worked extensivaly as a Theater Director, with some of the most influential theater Directors in the USA and abroad such as Liviu Cuilei, Michael Khon, Serban, Julie Taymor.

Every year she teaches a class at NYU Acting French, where she initiates students to experimental theater through a series of original exercises she has conceived for this class.

In 2005, she creates, the experimental Compagny Eye Ball Planet. Its first production was Narcisse , by JJ Rousseau. It was performed at the Jonhson Theater at the Theater for the New City in New York City in April 2005. The American Premiere of Rousseau's play was done as a multi media extravaganza, with original rock music and video, with a combination of professional musicians, designer, actors and dancers and students from NYU. Information and pictures of this show and the Compagny at www.eyeballplanet.com

Assia Djebar

Assia Djebar's Website
Professor, Francophone Literature and Civilization.
Doctorate in French Literature and Civilization, Ancienne élève de l´Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Selected Works:

La disparition de la langue française-roman (Albin Michel, 2003).
La femme sans sépulture (Albin Michel, 2002).
Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, Nouvelle edition complétée (Albin Michel, 2002).
Filles d´Ismaël dans le vent et la tempête, Florence: Ed. Giunti (2000).
Ces voix qui m´assiègent: En marge de ma francophonie, Paris: Albin Michel and Montréal: Les presses de l´Université de Montréal (1999).
Les Nuits de Strasbourg, Paris: Actes Sud (1997).
Oran, langue morte, Paris: Actes Sud (1997).
Le blanc de l´Algérie, Paris: Albin Michel (1996).
Vaste est la prison, Paris: Albin Michel (1994).
Loin de Médine, Paris: Albin Michel (1991).
Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade, London: Quartet (1989) and New York: Heineman (1992).
Ombre sultane, Paris: J.C Lattès (1987).
L´amour, la fantasia, Paris: J.C Lattès (1985).

Awards: Elected to Académie Française (2005); Peace Prize of Frankfurt Book Fair (2000); International Prize of Palmi (Italy); Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for Literature (Boston, MA); International Literary Neustadt Prize (1996); International Critics' Prize, Biennale of Venice, for the film "La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua."

Serge Doubrovsky (ret.)
Professor, French.
Docteur-ès-Lettres, Agrégé de l´Université, Licence-ès-Lettres, Paris; Ancien élève de l´Ecole Normale Supèrieure.

Major Interests: 17th-century theater; autofiction; modern criticism and novel; literary theory. Literature/thought as autobiography; creative writing (novels in French); psychoanalysis and literature; 17th-century literature.

Selected Works:

Laissé pour conte (Grasset, 1999).
L´Après-vivre (Grasset, 1994).
Le Livre brisé (Grasset, 1989).
Autobiographiques (Presses Universitaires de France, 1988).
Un Amour de soi (Hachette, 1982; Livre de Poche, 1990).
Parcours critique (Editions Galilée, 1980).
Fils (Editions Galilée, 1977).
La Place de la Madeleine: écriture et fantasme chez Proust (Mercure de France, 1974).
La Dispersion (Mercure de France, 1969).
Pourquoi la nouvelle critique: critique et objectivité (Mercure de France, 1966).
Corneille ou la dialectique du héros (Gallimard, 1964); Le Jour S (Mercure de France, 1963).

Fellowships/Honors: Guggenheim; Prix Médicis for Le Livre brisé, Prix de l'Écrit intime.

Stéphane Gerson
Associate Professor, French and French Studies, Director of Undergraduate Program
Ph.D., M.A. (Modern French History), University of Chicago ; B.A. (Philosophy), Haverford College

Major Interests : Cultural History of Modern France; memory and history; territorial identites; literature and history.

Selected Works :

Co-editor, Why France? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination (Cornell, 2007; forthcoming French translation by Le Seuil).
“In Praise of Modest Men: Self-Display and Self-Effacement in Nineteenth-Century France ,” French History 20, no. 2 (2006)
Editor, special edition of French Politics, Culture & Society , "Alain Corbin and the Writing of History" (Summer 2004).
“L'état français et le culte malaisé des souvenirs locaux, 1830-1880,” Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle 29 (2004) .
The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (Cornell, 2003)
"Une France locale: The Local Past in Recent French Scholarship," French Historical Studies 26, no. 3 (2003).
"La représentation historique du pays, entre l´état et la société civile," Romantisme 110 (2000).
"Town, Nation, or Humanity? Festive Delineations of Place and Past in Northern France, 1825-1865," Journal of Modern History 72, no. 3 (2000).
"Parisian Littérateurs, Provincial Journeys and the Construction of National Unity in Post-Revolutionary France," Past and Present 151 (1996).

Awards : Golden Dozen Teaching Award (2006); Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studie (2003-05), Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (2003); William Koren Jr. Prize (2000). Grants: Chateaubriand, Mellon , AHA, American Philosophical Society .

Henriette Goldwyn
Professor, French; Program Director, NYU in Paris
Director of the Undergraduate Honors Program.
Ph.D., M.A., New York; B.A., Hunter College.

Major Interests: 17th-century literature; narrative texts; women's studies; opposition journalism; political and religious texts; travel literature.

Selected Works:

dix-septième siècle/ 11.1 (2007).
“Mme de Villedieu – La transformation théâtrale : de l’héroïsme à l’épicurisme galant.” /Cahiers du /
Mémoires of Mme Du Noyer //1710-1711/. Ed. Henriette Goldwyn (Mercure de France, 2005).
Théâtre de femmes XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, Anthologie. vol. 1. XVIe siècle./ Ed with Aurore Evain and Perry Gethner (Saint-Étienne University Press, 2006).
"Les espaces du Désert où 'les pierres mêmes crieront'," Intersections, Biblio 17, 2004.
"Censure, épistolarité et transmission: Les Lettres Pastorales de Pierre Jurieu," Le savoir en France au Xviie siècle, Biblio 17, 2003.
"L'inscription d'un lectorat féminin dans une des Lettres historiques et galantes de Mme Du Noyer," Lectrices d'Ancien Régime, modalités, enjeux, représentations (Presses Universitaires de Rennes 2, 2003).
"Journalisme polémique à la fin du XVIIème siècle: le cas de Mme du Noyer," Femmes savantes, savoirs de femmes (Droz, 2000).
"Men in Love in the Plays of Mme de Villedieu," A Labor of Love: Critical Reflections on the Writings of Mme de Villedieu (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000).
Translator, "Historical and Gallant Letters from a Lady in Paris to a Lady in Avignon," Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women (Garland Publishing, 1999).
"Désir, fantasme et violence: les enlèvements de Mandane dans Le Grand Cyrus de Mlle de Scudéry," Violence et Fiction jusqu'à la Révolution, Études Littéraires Françaises (Narr Verlag, 1998).
"Mme du Noyer: Dissident Memorialist of the Huguenot Diaspora," Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France: Strategies of Emancipation (Garland Press, 1996).
"Catherine Bernard ou la voix dramatique éclatée," Ordre et contestation au temps des Classiques, Biblio 17 (1992).
"L´Education des femmes au 17e siècle," Cahiers du 17ème siècle (1991).
"Femmes auteurs dramatiques au 17ème siècle: la condition inhumaine," Cahiers du 17ème siècle (1990).

Denis Hollier
Professor, French, Director of Graduate Studies 2006-
CAPES, Doctorat de Troisième Cycle, Paris.

Major interests: 20th-century literature; narration and the media; literature and politics; the avant gardes; theory of literary history.

Selected Works:

Editor, Michel Leiris: La règle du jeu (Editions de la Pléiade, 2003).
Literary Debate: Texts and Contexts, Ed. with J. Mehlman (The New Press, 1999).
Absent Without Leave: French Literature Under the Threat of War (Harvard University Press, 1998).
Epreuves d´artiste (Galilée 1996).
Les Dépossédés: Bataille, Caillois, Leiris, Malraux, Sartre (Minuit, 1993).
Rouan, la figure du fond (Galilée, 1992).
General Editor, A New History of French Literature (Harvard, 1994).
De la littérature française (Bordas, 1993).
Politique de la prose: Jean-Paul Sartre et l´an quarante (Gallimard, 1982; English translation, Minnesota, 1986).
Le Collège de sociologie (1937-1939) (Gallimard, 1979, 1995).
La Prise de la Concorde: Essais sur Georges Bataille (Gallimard, 1989).
Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille (MIT, 1989).
General Editor, Panorama des sciences humaines (Gallimard, 1973).
Rabelais, ou c´était pour rire, with Michel Butor (Larousse, 1972).

Judith Miller
Professor, French; Chair, Department of French.
Ph.D., M.A., Rochester; B.A., Vassar.
Judith Miller

Major Interests: French Theater: Theory, Production and Text; Francophone Literature (theater); Feminist Theory.

Selected Works:

Translator, Drums on the Dam: In the Form of an Ancient Puppet Play Performed by Actors by Hélène Cixous, The Plays of Hélène Cixous (Routledge, 2003).
"The African Presence in Paris," Paris Jigsaw: Internationalism and the Paris Stage, Ed. David Bradby and Maria Delgado (Manchester University Press, 2002).
"Caribbean Women Playwrights: Madness, Memory, but Not Melancholia", Theatre Research International, Vol 23: No. 3 (Autumn 1998).
Plays by French and Francophone Women: A Critical Anthology, with Christiane Makward (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994).
Françoise Sagan, Twayne World Authors Series (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988).
Theatre and Revolution in France Since 1968 (Lexington, Kentucky: French Forum Monographs, 1977).

Honors/Awards: Pickard-Bascom Professorship; Vilas Associate; Honorary Fellow; CNRS; Award for the promotion of French theatre in America, French Ministry of Culture.

John Moran
Clinical Assistant Professor, French; Director, Language Programs; Faculty Fellow in Residence.
Ph.D., Tulane; MS, Georgetown; B.A., Tulane.

Major Interests: Foreign language methodology and pedagogy; historical linguistics; Old French language and literature; language policy and reform.

Selected Works:

"Finding One's Way Between Descartes and Zombis: Making Sense of the World in Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique." La Torre 9 (2004): 219-229.
"The Language of the Songs." Liner notes. Les Motés d'Arras: The Songs of Arras. Orch. New Orleans Musica da Camera. Centaur, 2003.
"How to ask: Question formation in written representations of spoken French." Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1992. Ed. James E. Alatis. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1993.

Eugène Nicole
Professor, French.
Ph.D. 1975, New York; Diplôme, Institut d´Études Politiques; D.E.S., Licence ès Lettres, Sorbonne.

Major Interests: Proust; contemporary French poetry; theory of literature; onomastics; linguistics; modern poetry; criticism; literary theory.

Selected Works:

L'Œuvre des mers, revised and expanded edition (Editions de l'Olivier, 2004).
"Coding and Decoding: Names in the Recherche," Approaches to Teaching Proust's Fiction and Criticism (MLA, 2003).
"Aspects de la génétique proustienne," Bulletin d'Informations proustiennes 33 (2003).
"Gomorrhe," Bulletin d'Informations proustiennes 32 (2002).
"Valère Novarina ou le langage à l'invectif," Critique 635 (April 2000).
"Modalités du jeu intertextuel." Bulletin d'Informations proustiennes 30 (1999).
Le Caillou de l´Enfant-Perdu, Flammarion (1996).
"L´Onomastique littéraire," Poétique 54 (1993).
Les Larmes de Pierre (François Bourin, 1991; Folio, 1993).
Essais de génétique textuelle, coauthor (Rodopi, 1990).
À la recherche du temps perdu (by Marcel Proust), vols. 1 and 4, coed. (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1989).
L´Œuvre des mers (François Bourin, 1988; Folio, 1990).

Awards/Grants: Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres; Bourse de la Société des Gens de lettres de France.

Nancy Freeman Regalado
Professor, French; Affiliated Professor, Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Ph.D., Yale; B.A., Wellesley.

Major Interests: Medieval literature and culture; lyric and narrative; reader reception and performance theory.

Recent and forthcoming articles:

“Le Romant de la Rose moralisé de Jean Molinet: Alchimie d'une lecture méditative,” Mobilité du texte et jointures (Paris: Paradigmes, forthcoming).
“A Contract for a Festival Book: Sarrasin's Le Roman du Hem (1278)," Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Acts and Texts , Amsterdam: Rodopi (forthcoming).
“Performing Romance: Arthurian Interludes in Sarrasin's Le Roman du Hem (1278),” Performing Medieval Narrative (Oxford: Boydell and Brewer, 2005).
“Picturing the Story of Chivalry in Jacques Bretel's Tournoi de Chauvency (Oxford, Bodleian MS Douce 308)," Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Studies for Jonathan J.G. Alexander. London: Harvey Miller-Brepols, forthcoming.
“Fortune's Two Crowns: Images of Kingship in the Paris, BnF Ms. Fr. 146 Roman de Fauvel,” Studies in Manuscript Illumination: A Tribute to Lucy Freeman Sandler. London: Harvey Miller Publications for Brepols, forthcoming.
“Universitas et communitas: The Parade of the Parisians at the Pentecost Feast of 1313,” with Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001).
“Kalila et Dimna, liber regius : The Tutorial Book of Raymond de Béziers (Paris, BNF MS Lat. 8504),” Satura: Essays on Medieval Satire and Religion in Honor of Robert Raymo (Stamford, UK: Paul Watkins, 2001), pp. 103-23.
"The Ship of Solomon and the Birth of Jean de Meun: Medieval Construction of the Modern Reader," Rereading Allegory: Essays in Honor of Daniel Poirion, Yale French Studies 95 (1999).
"Villon´s Legacy from Le Testament de Jean de Meun: Misquotation, Memory, and the Wisdom of Fools," Villon at Oxford: The Drama of the Text. (Rodopi 1998).
"The Chronique Métrique and the Moral Design of Paris, BNF MS Fr. 146: Feasts of Good and Evil," Fauvel Studies (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Books published and edited:

Performing Medieval Narrative, Ed. with E. B. Vitz and Marilyn Lawrence. Oxford: Boydell and Brewer, 2005.
Contexts: Styles and Values in Art and Literature of Medieval France, Yale French Studies, Special Number, co-edited with Daniel Poirion (1991).
Le Roman de Fauvel, a reproduction in facsimile of the complete manuscript, with François Avril and Edward Roesner (Broude Brothers, 1990).
Poetic Patterns in Rutebeuf (Yale University Press, 1970).

Fellowships: American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation.

Honors: NYU Distinguished Teaching Medal, Golden Dozen Award; Officier de l´Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Memberships: Faculty Democracy, FAS Women's Faculty Caucus (Past President).

Richard Sieburth
Professor, French and Comparative Literature.

Ph.D., M.A., Harvard; B.A., Chicago.

Major Interests: 19th-century literature; translation; romanticism; modernism; literary theory.

Selected Works:

Editor, Ezra Pound: Poems & Translations (Library of America, 2003).
Editor, Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos (New Directions, 2003).
Editor and Translator, Emblems of Desire: Selections from Maurice Scève's Délie (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).
Translator and preface, Émergences-Résurgences by Henri Michaux (Skira; The Drawing Center, 2000).
Translator, Selected Prose and Poetry by Gérard de Nerval (Penguin Classics, 1996).
Translator, Nights As Day, Days As Night by Michel Leiris (Eridanos Books, 1988).
Signs in Action: Ideograms of Pound and Michaux, (Red Dust Books, 1987).
Translator, Moscow Diary by Walter Benjamin (Harvard University Press, 1986).
Translator, Hymns and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin (Princeton University Press, 1984).
Translator and editor, Georg Büchner, *Lenz* (Archipelago books, 2005)

Awards: PEN/Book of the Month Club Prize for Translation.

Evelyn Birge Vitz
Professor, French.
Ph.D., Yale; M.A., Middlebury; B.A., Smith.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ebv1/

Major Interests: Medieval literature: performance; oral and written tradition; hagiography, biblical and religious literature. Crusader culture. Storytelling. Literary theory.

Selected Works:

Performing Medieval Narrative , ed. with Nancy Freeman Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence, Cambridge , D.S. Brewer, 2005
Orality and Performance in Early French Romance, Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 1999.
“Gender and Martyrdom,” Medievalia et Humanistica, n.s., 26, 1999, pp. 70-99.
“La liturgie, Le Roman de Renart, et le problème du blasphème dans la vie littéraire au Moyen Age, ou: Les bêtes peuvent-elles blasphémer?” Reinardus 12, 1999, pp. 205-225.
“'Bourde jus mise'?: François Villon, the Liturgy, and Prayer,” Villon at Oxford: The Drama of the Text, ed. by Michael Freeman and Jane H.M. Taylor, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1999, pp. 170-194.
“French Medieval Oral Traditions,” Teaching Oral Traditions, ed. John Miles Foley, MLA, 1998, pp. 373-381.
“Rereading Rape in Medieval Literature,” Partisan Review, April 1996, pp. 263-274.
“1215: November: The Fourth Lateran Council Prescribes that Adult Christians Confess at Least Once a Year,” A New History of French Literature, Denis Hollier, ed., Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. 82-88.
Medieval Narrative and Modern Narratology: Subjects and Objects of Desire, New York, New York University Press, 1989; paperback edition, 1993.
“Vie, légende, littérature: traditions orales et écrites dans les histoires des saints,” Poétique 72, November 1987, pp. 387-402.
“Type et individu dans l'autobiographie médiévale,” Poétique, no. 24, 1975, pp. 426-445.
The Crossroad of Intentions: A Study of Symbolic Expression in the Poetry of François Villon, The Hague, Mouton, 1974.

Websites
“Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase,” co-directed with Marilyn Lawrence, New York University Digital Studio: http://euterpe.bobst.nyu.edu/mednar/
“Storytelling in Performance”: http://www.nyu.edu/humanities.council/workshops/storytelling/

Articles
La performabilité de la voix et du déguisement dans le récit et au théâtre: Wistasse le moine, ” in press, 2006, Pris-Ma ( University of Poitiers
“Performing Aucassin et Nicolette ,” Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado, eds. Eglal Doss-Quinby, E. Jane Burns and Roberta Krueger, Cambridge , D.S. Brewer, in press, 2007.
“Experimenting with the Performance of Medieval Narrative,” with Linda Marie Zaerr, Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Acts and Texts , ed. Laurie Postlewate, Amsterdam, Rodopi, in press, 2007.
“Biblical vs. Liturgical Citation in Medieval Literature and Culture,” Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Studies for Jonathan J.G. Alexander , eds. Gerry Guest and Susan L'Engle, Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2006, pp. 443-449.
“Teaching Arthurian Literature through Performance,” Arthuriana 15:4 (winter 2005), pp. 31-36.
“ Floriant et Florete ,” The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library , eds. Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York Public Library/Harvey Miller, 2005, pp. 389-391.
“The Liturgy and Vernacular Literature,” The Liturgy of the Medieval Church , rev. ed., eds. Thomas Heffernan and Ann Matter, Kalamazoo/TEAMS, 2005, pp. 503-563.
“Erotic Reading in the Middle Ages: Performance and Re-performance of Romance,” in Performing Medieval Narrative , eds. E.B. Vitz, Nancy Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence, Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2005, pp. 73-88.
“Performance in, and of, Flamenca ,” De sens rassis: Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens , eds. Keith Busby, Bernard Guidot and Logan E. Whalen, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2005, pp. 683-698.
“Liturgy as Education in the Middle Ages,” Medieval Education , eds. Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Bronx, NY, Fordham Series in Medieval Studies, No. 4, Fordham University Press, 2005, pp. 20-34.
“La lecture érotique au Moyen Age et la performance du roman,” Poétique 137, février 2004, pp. 35-51.
“On the Discovery of a Lost Manuscript of Chrétien de Troyes: Toward an Appreciation of its Vast Importance for the Study of Medieval Literature and Culture” [ parody ], The Proceedings of the Pseudo Society: First Series , Kalamazoo , MI : Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, pp. 224-238.
“Minstrel Meets Clerk in Early French Literature: Medieval Romance as the Meeting-Place between Two Traditions of Verbal Eloquence and Performance Practice,” Cultures in Contact , ed. Richard Gyug, Fordham University Press, 2002, pp. 169-188.
“Liturgical Citation in French Medieval Epic and Romance,” invited contribution to Philologies Old and New: Essays in Honor of Peter Florian Dembowski , eds. Joan Grimbert and Carol Chase, Edward C. Armstrong Monographs on Medieval Literature, 2002, pp. 191-209.

Fellowships/Honors: National Endowment for the Humanities and French Government grants; New York University Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching.

William Wolf
Adjunct Associate Professor (cinema).
B.A., Rutgers.

Major Interests: Cinema.

Selected Works:

The A List: The National Society Of Film Critics 100 Essential Films (2 chapters), DeCapo (2002).
Landmark Films: The Cinema and Our Century, Paddington (1979).
The Marx Brothers, Pyramid (1975).
International Film Guide (American Section).
Americana Annual Enclyclopedia (Motion Picture Section).
Collier's Year Book (Motion Picture Section).
Former Film critic, Cue Magazine, New York Magazine, Gannet newspapers, New York Observer.

Jindrich Zezula
Associate Professor, French
Ph.D., M.A., New York.

Major Interests: Medieval and Renaissance literatures; cultural history; Middle Ages; 16th-century; poetics; cultural history; La Belle Epoque.

Selected Works:

"Scholarly Medievalism in Renaissance France," Studies in Medievalism, no. 1 (1987).
"L´Elément historique et la datation d´Anseys des Mes (Ms. N)," Romania, no. 385 (1976).
La Geste des Loherains et les Chroniquers (Droz, 1973)."Doon de Mayence," "Doon de la Rocke," "Beuves d´Aigrement," Grundriss des Romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters 3 (Heidelberg University, 1973).
"La Geste des Loherains et les Coucy," Mélange de langue et de littérature du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance (Droz, 1970).

Fellowships/Honors: New York University Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Recent Visiting Professors have included: Jacques Derrida, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Lucette Finas, Christian Biet, Yves Hersant, Philippe Roger, Ronnie Scharfman.

Affiliated Faculty from other departments of the Faculty of Arts and Science are: Herrick Chapman, Institute of French Studies; Muriel Darmon, Institute of French Studies; Manthia Diawara, Africana Studies; Tony Judt, Institute of French Studies; Kristin Ross, Comparative Literature and Emmanuelle Saada, Institute of French Studies.

Professors Emeriti: Erika Ostrovsky, Max Sorkin.