Summer
2010
- French Art and
Architecture. Course to be guest taught at the Université de
Bourgogne (Dijon, France) as part of the Summer Workshop organized by Miami
University (Ohio, USA). May 27-July 2, 2010. [Details on
program here] [This is not a Barnard-sponsored program, but Barnard
students may apply. Ask me for
details.]
Spring 2010
- French BC
3022y Major French Texts II. Readings in French literature from the
18th to the 20th century. Authors to be read will likely include: Montesquieu,
Voltaire, Diderot, Balzac, Flaubert, Sand, Sartre, Beckett,
Duras.
- Comparative Literature BC 3155.
Epic Travel. Examines how heroes in literature and film 'come into
being' through the journeys they make. Comparison between epic (travel with a
goal) and romance (wandering). Readings by Virgil, Chrétien de Troies, Luiz
Vaz de Camões, Aphra Behn, Voltaire and others; films by Jean-Luc Godard,
Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott and others.
- French BC
3006: Composition and Conversation. A class for students having
completed Intermediate II (1204) or equivalent. Emphasis on increasing
spoken fluency and skills in writing. This is not a grammar class, but a 'put your
French into practice'
class.
Fall 2009
- French BC
1204. Intermediate French II. (Two sections). The final class in
Barnard's language requirement in French. Emphasis on
grammar.
- French Graduate
Seminar. (Boston University). Topic: French Renaissance Epic.[Details]
- Independent studies at
Barnard: 1) French cinema and politics; 2) Thesis pre-reading
relating literature to questions of multiculturalism in
France.
Spring 2009
- Comparative
LIterature BC 3122: Big Brother, Poetics of Power. A new class this
semester. Explores literary and filmic formulations of Big-Brother-like power
situations. Readings include: Orwell, Kafka, Nabokov, Lucan, Winterson;
films by directors inculding Coppola, Hitchcock, Chaplin, and others.
Secondary readings include Foucault, Zizek, and
others.
- French BC
3006: Composition and Conversation. A class for students having
completed Intermediate II (1204) or equivalent. Emphasis on increasing
spoken fluency and skills in writing. This is not a grammar class, but a 'put your
French into practice'
class.
Before Spring 2009
- Many sections of French
Intermediate I and II (1203, 1204), and of Composition/Conversation
(3006).
- Epic Travel (as above), Fall
2006, Spring 2008.