Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Master of Arts for Teachers, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor Lorraine Piroux, 103 Ruth Adams Building, Douglass Campus (732/932-8223/9637)
Web Site: http://french.rutgers.edu
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Carole Allamand, Assistant Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell Twentieth-century literature
François Cornilliat, Professor of French, FAS-NB; Doctorat d'Etat, Paris VIII
Sixteenth-century literature; rhetoric and poetics
Viviane M. Déprez, Associate Professor of French and Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linguistics; phonetics
M. Josephine Diamond, Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; critical theory
Uri A. Eisenzweig, Professor of French, FAS-NB; Doctorat Habilitation, Paris VIII
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; critical theory
Jerry Aline Flieger, Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Twentieth-century literature; critical theory; women's studies and feminist theory
Josephine Grieder, Professor of French, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
Eighteenth-century literature; social history
Louise K. Horowitz, Professor of French, FAS-C; Ph.D., CUNY
Seventeenth-century literature
Renée B. Larrier, Associate Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia African and Caribbean literature in French
Ana Pairet, Associate Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania Late medieval literature
Lorraine Piroux, Associate Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Northwestern Eighteenth-century literature
Derek Schilling, Assistant Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania; Doctorat, Paris VIII Twentieth-century literature,
cultural poetics, urbanism
Richard Serrano, Associate
Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Literature of
the Maghreb; 20th-century literature
Mary Lewis Shaw, Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; performance arts
Mary B. Speer, Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Medieval language and literature; theory and practice of editing
James Swenson, Chairperson and Associate Professor of French, FAS-NB;
Ph.D., Yale Eighteenth-century literature; critical theory
Alan L. Williams, Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Film history; film theory; literary theory; contemporary French literature
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Geneviève Fraisse, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique; Doctorat d'Etat, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales History of ideas; history and theory of feminism
Claude Mouchard, Professor Emeritus of French Literature, Paris VIII; Habilitation, Paris VIII
Poetry, 19th-century literature; comparative literature; translation
Jacques Rancière, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Paris VIII; Doctorat d'Etat, Paris I
Aesthetics; poetics and politics
