Master of Arts in Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL)

Graduate Faculty in French

Anthony Abiragi, Assistant Professor. PhD, New York University. Specialist in twentieth-century French literature and European philsophy. Has published on Maurice Blanchot.

Sue Farquhar, Associate Professor (Emerita). PhD, Johns Hopkins University. Has published widely on French Renaissance literature and culture. Specialist on Montaigne. Strong interest in critical theory.

Médoune Guèye, Associate Professor. Licence ès lettres, University of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal ; PhD, University of Cincinnati. Specialist on African women writers. Author of a book, Aminata Sow Fall, oralité et société dans l'oeuvre romanesque, and of articles on Francophone literature and culture.

Sharon P. Johnson, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Wisconsin. Specialist on nineteenth-century French literature and culture. Author of a book, Boundaries of Acceptability: Flaubert, Maupassant, Cézanne, and Cassatt , and numerous articles on the intersections of literature, gender, visual culture, medical discourse, and the law. Winner of major university teaching awards.

Corinne Noirot-Maguire, Assistant Professor. Former Fellow, École Normale Supérieure.Doctorat, Université Stendhal-Grenoble III. PhD, Rutgers University. Specialist in French Renaissance literature, poetry and poetics. Has published essays on numerous poets, edited a collection of essays on Montaigne, and authored a forthcoming book on Marot and Du Bellay.

Richard Shryock, Associate Professor. DEA, Université de Haute Bretagne-Rennes II. PhD, University of Michigan. Specialist in late nineteenth-century French symbolism and decadence. Author of a book on modern French narrative, a critical edition of French literary correspondence, and numerous articles on French literature, culture, and politics.

Fabrice Teulon, Associate Professor. Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes, Université d'Orléans-La Source, France; PhD, Louisiana State University. Specialist on eighteenth-century literature, art, and culture. Author of a book, Idéologie, écriture et fiasco chez Antoine Destutt de Tracy , and articles in eighteenth-century French studies.

Janell Watson, Associate Professor. PhD, Duke University. Specialist in nineteenth-century studies and twentieth-century French philosophy. Author of two books, Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: and Guattari's Diagrammatic Thought, and of articles on French literature, culture, and critical theory.