Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Master of Arts for Teachers, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Renee Larrier, 107E Ruth Adams Building, Douglass Campus (732-932-8223, 3750, ext. 15)

Website: http://french.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Carole Allamand, Associate Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Twentieth-century literature

Viviane M. Déprez, Professor of French and Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linguistics; phonetics

M. Josephine Diamond, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; critical theory

Uri A. Eisenzweig, Professor of French, SAS; Doctorat Habilitation, Paris VIII
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; critical theory

Jerry Aline Flieger, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Twentieth-century literature; critical theory; women's studies and feminist theory

Jean-Louis Hippolyte, Associate Professor of French, FAS-C; Ph.D., Colorado
Twentieth- and 21st-century French literature, film

Louise K. Horowitz, Professor of French, FAS-C; Ph.D., CUNY
Seventeenth-century literature

Renée B. Larrier, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
African and Caribbean literature in French

Ana Pairet, Associate Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Late medieval literature

Lorraine Piroux, Associate Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Eighteenth-century literature

Derek Schilling, Associate Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania; Doctorat, Paris VIII
Twentieth-century literature; cultural poetics; film

Richard Serrano, Associate Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Literature of the Maghreb; 20th-century literature; poetry

Mary Lewis Shaw, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; performance; aesthetics; poetry's relations with music and visual arts 

Mary B. Speer, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Medieval language and literature; theory and practice of editing

James Swenson, Associate Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Eighteenth-century literature; critical theory

Alan L. Williams, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Film history; film theory; literary theory; contemporary French literature

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Boubacar Boris Diop, Visiting Professor of French, SAS; Licence, Dakar (Senegal)
Creative writing; African studies; theories of language

Claude Mouchard, Professor Emeritus of French Literature, Paris VIII; Habilitation, Paris VIII
Poetry; 19th-century literature; comparative literature; translation