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Department of French and Romance Philology


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Pierre Force, Ph.D.
517 Philosophy
Tel: 212.854.5526


Director of Graduate Student Teaching: Pascale Hubert-Leibler, Ph.D.
519 Philosophy Hall
Tel: 212.854.4819


Director of Graduate Studies: Elisabeth Ladenson, Ph.D.

Faculty

Souleymane Bachir Diagne:
Professor, Docteur es Lettres, 1988
Interests: African literature and philosophy; Islamic thought; history of logic and mathematics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Antoine Compagnon:
Professor (French and Romance Philology), Docteur ès Lettres, 1985
Interests: 16th century; 20th century; literary theory; Montaigne; Proust
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Peter Connor:
Associate Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., University of California (Berkely), 1991
Interests: twentieth century French literature, literary theory, contemporary French philosophy, translation, psychoanalysis
Vincent Debaene:
Assistant Professor, Doctorat, Paris IV (Sorbonne), 2004
Interests: Literature and anthropology - 20th century intellectual history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Madeleine Dobie:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Sorbonne, Habilitation, 1987, 1994
Interests: Colonial history and literature; cultural studies, francophone studies, eighteenth century French literature and culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pierre Force:
Professor (French and Romance Philology), Ph.D., Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Habilitation, 1987, 1994
Interests: 17th and 18th-century literature and philosophy; Pascal; Moliere; the moralist tradition
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pascale Hubert-Leibler:
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), 1984
Interests: Language pedagogy and theater
Elisabeth Ladenson:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1994
Interests: 19th- and 20th- century French and comparitive literature; gender studies; queer theory; literary historiography; and cultural studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sylvie Lefevre:
Professor, Doctorat, Habilitation, Sorbonne, 1992, 2002
Interests: Medieval literature and culture; text and image; cocicology; paleography
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Henri Mitterand:
Professor Emeritus, Docteur ès Lettres, 1969
Interests: Novel; Zola; stylistics
Emmanuelle Saada:
Associate Professor, Doctorat, E.H.E.S.S., 2001
Interests: Historical sociology, 20th century colonial history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joanna Stalnaker:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 2002
Interests: 18th and early 19th century literature; French theater across the centuries
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Philip Watts:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1991
Interests: Literature and intellectual history since WWII, literature and politics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Caroline Weber:
Associate Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Yale, 1998
Interests: 18th century French literature and cultural history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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