Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Master of Arts for Teachers, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program:
Professor François Cornilliat, 103G Ruth Adams Building, Douglass Campus (848-932-8223)
Website: http://french.rutgers.edu
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Carole Allamand, Associate Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Twentieth-century literature
Alisa Belanger, Assistant Professor of French, FAS-C; Ph.D.,
California (Los Angeles)
Québec studies; postcolonial Francophone
literatures;
Francophone book art
François Cornilliat, Professor of French, SAS; Doctorat d'Etat, Paris VIII
Sixteenth-century literature; rhetoric and poetics
Viviane M. Déprez, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linguistics; phonetics
M. Josephine Diamond, Professor of French Emerita, 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
Renée 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
Andrew Parker, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Literary and cultural theory; philosophy and literature; history of sexuality; media studiesLorraine Piroux, Associate Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Eighteenth-century literature
Richard Serrano, 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 Member of the Graduate Faculty
Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Professor of French, Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle; Habilitation, Paris III
Seventeenth-century literature; critical and cultural theory;
history and politics of language
