Charles Affron | Michel Beaujour | Claudie Bernard | Tom Bishop | Kimberlee Campbell | J. Michael Dash | Anne Deneys-Tunney | Assia Djebar | Serge Doubrovsky | Ziad Magdy Elmarsafy | Stéphane Gerson | Henriette Goldwyn | Denis Hollier | Judith Miller | Eugène Nicole | Nancy Freeman Regalado | Richard Sieburth | Evelyn Birge Vitz | William Wolf | Jindrich Zezula Charles M. Affron Professor, Romanticism, 19th-century novel, cinema. Ph.D. 1963, Yale; B.A. 1957, 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. Michel Beaujour Professor, French; Associate Director, Institute of French Studies. Agrégé de l'Université 1957, Licence ès Lettres 1954, Paris. Major Interests: Renaissance; contemporary poetry; literary theory; stylistics. Renaissance literature; 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: rhétorique de l'autoportrait (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. Ph.D. 1983 (French literature), Princeton; Doctorat de Troisième Cycle 1979 (Comparative Literature), Paris; Agrégation de Lettres Modernes 1977 (Humanities), Maîtrise de Lettres Moderne 1976, Licence de Lettres Modernes 1975, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Sèvres). Major Interests: 19th-century French literature; 19th-century novel; history and society. Selected Works: "Le coeur régulateur: théories romantiques de la famille," Romanic Review, 92 (2002); "Le sang de la vengeance et le sang des familles, à propos du Comte de Monte-Cristo," Dumas, une lecture de l'histoire, M. Arrous, ed. (Paris, Maisonneuve-Larose, 2002); Balzac Paterfamilias, ed. with Franc Schuerewegen (Rodopi, 2001); "Association et alliance dans Le Compagnon du Tour de France," George Sand Studies, 20, 1&2 (2001); Editor, Les Chouans by Balzac (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. 1957, California (Berkeley); M.A., Maryland; B.A. 1950, New York. Major interests: contemporary theatre and novel; avant-garde movements; cultural history; modern theater; contemporary France; Samuel Beckett. Selected Works: General editor, Littérature et culture françaises, Films for the Humanities; Editor, Remembering Roland Barthes...20 Years Later (New York University, 2003); Editor, Les antiaméricanismes (New York University, 2001); "Topologie d'une reprise ou le retour de Robbe-Grillet," Critique, 651-652 (2001); "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); "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); From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel (New York University 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); “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); Editor, L'Amérique des Français (with C. Fauré) (François Bourin, 1992); Le Passeur d´océan: carnets d´un ami américain (Payot, 1989); General editor, Classiques d'aujourd'hui (Gallimard, 1986 -1989); "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); Samuel Beckett, ed. with R. Federman (L´Herne, 1976; Livre de Poche, 1985); L´Avant-Garde Théâtrale: French Theater Since 1950 (New York University Press, 1975); Huis Clos de Sartre (Hachette, 1975); Pirandello and the French Theater (New York University, 1960, 1970). Fellowships/Honors: Fulbright Senior Research Scholar; National Endowment for the Humanities, French Government, French-American Foundation, and Florence Gould Foundation grants; OBIE Award; Grand Prix de l´Académie Française; Chevalier; 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. Kimberlee Campbell Senior Language Lecturer, French; Director, Language Programs. Ph.D. 1984, New York; M.A. 1978, Pittsburgh; B.A. 1976, Alma. Major Interests: medieval literature; Chanson de geste; second-language acquisition. Selected Works: "Cyclical Temporality and Ritual Renewal in Hervis de Metz," Transtextualities (1996); "Crusade and Bourgeois in Hervis de Metz," Aspects de l'épopée romane (1995); "The Reiterated Self: Ritual Renewal and Narrative Cycles," Cyclification: The Development of Narrative Cycles in the Chansons de Geste and the Arthurian Romances, ed. with Bart Besamusca et al. (North-Holland, 1994); "Fighting Back: A Survey of Patterns of Female Aggressiveness in the Old French Chanson de geste," Acts of the 1991 Congress of the Société Rencesvals (1993); "Of Horse-Fish and Frozen Words," Renaissance and Reformation 14 (1990); The Protean Text: A Study of Versions of the Medieval French Legend of Doon and Olive (Garland Publishing, 1988); "The Renaissance Reader and Popular Medievalism in France," Studies in Medievalism 3 (1987). 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 Associate Professor, French. Docteur de l'Université 1989, D.E.A. 1982, Paris VII; Agrégation de Lettres Modernes 1981, Ancienne élève de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure; Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes 1980, Paris VII; Licence ès Lettres, 1978, Paris IV. Major Interests: The body in the 18th-century novel; psychoanalysis and critical theory; the Ideologues; women's studies. Selected Works: Co-Editor, Dix-Huitième Siècle, L'Épicurisme des Lumières, no. 35 (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, no. sur "Le libertin" (2003); "La sémiotisation du corps féminin dans le roman libertin du XVIII° siècle," The Eighteenth century body, ed. 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); Co-Editor, Œuvres III : Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte by Volney (Corpus-Fayard, 1998); Co-Editor, Destutt de Tracy et l'Idéologie, revue Corpus, no. 26-27 (1994); Co-Editor, Traité de la volonté et de ses effets -De l'amour by Destutt de Tracy (Corpus-Fayard, 1994); Ecritures du corps, de Descartes à Laclos, collection Ecriture (Presses Universitaires de France, 1992); Co-Editor, Œuvres 1798-1802 by Destutt de Tracy (Corpus-Fayard, 1992); Co-Editor, Œuvres I et II by Volney (Corpus-Fayard, 1990); Co-Editor, Volney, revue Corpus, n° 11-12 (1989). Assia Djebar Professor, Francophone Literature and Civilization. Doctorate in French Literature and Civilization, Ancienne élève de líEcole 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; 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; New York: Heineman, 1992); Ombre sultane (Paris: J.C Lattès, 1987); L´amour, la fantasia (Paris: J.C Lattès, 1985). Awards: 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 Professor, French. Docteur-ès-Lettres 1964, Agrégé de l'Université 1954, Licence ès Lettres 1949, Paris; Ancien élève de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. 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. Ziad Magdy Elmarsafy Assistant Professor, French. Ph.D. 1992, Emory University; M.A. Johns Hopkins University; B.A. Cornell (Physics). Major Interests: 17th and 18th Century Literature; Contemporary Arabic Literature; Francophone Literature. Selected Works: Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism: Corneille, Pascal, Racine (Bucknell University Press, 2003); "Thalassophobia and Geolatry: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and the Geography of Virtue," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 15, no. 1 (October, 2002); The Histrionic Sensibility: Theatricality and Identity from Corneille to Rousseau, Biblio 17, (G. Narr Verlag, 2001); "'Hath not an Arab eyes?' Paul Smaïl and the Conformist Inferno," SubStance 96 30, no. 3 (2001); "O homines ad servitutem paratos! Bajazet and the Scandal of Slave Rule," Romanic Review 91, no. 4 (November, 2000). Awards: National Endowment for the Humanities. Stéphane Gerson Assistant Professor, French and French Studies. Ph.D. 1997, M.A. 1992, University of Chicago (Modern French History); B.A. 1988, Haverford College (Philosophy). Major Interests: Cultural History of Modern France; memory and history; territorial identities; literature and history. Selected Works: The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (Cornell University Press, 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/Grants: William Koren Jr. Prize, Society for French Historical Studies; Chateaubriand, Mellon. Henriette Goldwyn Associate Professor, French; Assistant Dean for International Study; Program Director, New York University in France. Ph.D. 1985, M.A. 1979, New York; B.A. 1975, Hunter College. Major Interests: 17th-century literature; history of French language; women's studies. Selected Works: "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); "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); "Violences, désir et fantasme: les enlèvements de Mandame in Le Grand Cyrus," Biblio 17 (1996); "Les Mémoires d´une ´affranchie´: Mme du Noyer," Œuvres et Critiques, Biblio 17 (1995); "La femme protestante à la fin du 17e siècle: les mémoires de Mme du Noyer," Les femmes écrivains sous l´Ancien Régime---tentatives d´émancipation, Biblio 17 (1995); "l´Education des femmes au 17e siècle," Cahiers du 17e siècle (1992); "Catherine Bernard ou la voix dramatique éclatée," Ordre et contestation au temps des Classiques, Biblio 17 (1992). Denis Hollier Professor, French. CAPES (Paris), 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. 1975, M.A. 1970, Rochester; B.A. 1969, Vassar. 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. Eugène Nicole Professor, French; Acting Director, NYU in Paris. Ph.D. 1975, New York; Diplôme 1964, Institut d'Etudes Politiques; D.E.S. 1964, Licence ès Lettres, 1963, 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); A la recherche du temps perdu (by Marcel Proust), vols. 1 and 4, coed. (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1989); L'Oeuvre 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; Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program. Ph.D. 1966, Yale; B.A. 1957, Wellesley. Major Interests: Medieval literature; literature and culture; lyric and narrative; reader reception theory; stylistics; history and literature. Selected Works: "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, Ed. Kathleen Ashley (Rodopi, 2001); "Kalila et Dimna, liber regius: The Tutorial Book of Raymond de Béziers, BNF MS Lat. 8504," Satura: Essays on Medieval Satire and Religion in honor of Robert Raymo (Paul Watkins, 2001); "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," 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); 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); "1456. I the Scholar François Villon," A New History of French Literature, ed. Denis Hollier (Harvard University Press, 1989); "Masques réels dans le monde de l'imaginaire. Le rite et l'écrit dans le charivari du Roman de Fauvel...," Masques et déguisements au moyen-âge (Vrin, 1988); "En l'an de mon trentième âge: Date, Deixis and Moral Vision in Villon's Testament," Le Nombre du temps. En hommage à Paul Zumthor (Champion, 1988); Poetic Patterns in Rutebeuf (Yale University Press, 1970). Fellowships/Honors/Grants: American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Guggenheim; NYU Distinguished Teaching Medal; Officier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. Richard Sieburth Professor, French, Comparative Literature; Director, Graduate Studies. Ph.D. 1976, M.A. 1973, Harvard; B.A. 1970, 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). Awards: PEN/Book of the Month Club Prize for Translation. Evelyn Birge Vitz Professor, French. Ph.D. 1968, Yale; M.A. 1965, Middlebury; B.A. 1963, Smith. Major Interests: Medieval literature; literary theory; oral and written tradition; hagiography; religious literature; octosyllabic rhymed couplet; medieval religious literature. Selected Works: "The Liturgy and Vernacular Literature," The Liturgy of the Medieval Church, (Kalamazoo / TEAMS, 2001); Orality and Performance in Early French Romance (D.S. Brewer, 1999); "Romans Dir et Contar," Cahiers de littérature orale (1995); "Rereading Rape in Medieval Literature," Partisan Review (1995); "Chrétien de Troyes: clerc ou menestrel?: problèmes des traditions orale et littéraire dans les cours de France au XIIe siècle," Poétique 81 (1990); Medieval Narrative and Modern Narratology: Subjects and Objects of Desire (New York University Press, 1989, paperback edition 1993); The Crossroads of Intentions: A Study of Symbolic Expression in the Poetry of François Villon (Mouton, 1974). 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; Director, Undergraduate Studies; Director, NYU in Prague. Ph.D. 1967, M.A. 1962, 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.   2003-2004 Instructors Cécile Balavoine | Elizabeth Boxley Bowles | Mark Cruse | Mathilde Levitte | Christopher Peña | Bassem Shahin