French Studies Faculty

Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
Downey House 118
860-685-3093

Chair, Medieval Studies Program
860-685-3093

Chair, Romance Languages & Literatures
860-685-3093

jrider@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MA University of Chicago
PHD University of Chicago

FIST276 - 01
Days And Knights Of The Round

FREN229 - 01
Classic French Comics

HUMS646 - 01
The Arthurian Legend on Film

FREN215 - 01
Composition and Conversation

Office Hours:

By appointment.

Scholarly Keywords:

The literature and history of Northern Europe from the mid-eleventh to the mid-thirteenth centuries.

Grants:

Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship to Belgium, 1976-77 Fulbright Research Award for Belgium, 1987-88 Fulbright Research Award for France, 2006-07 NEH Fellowships, 1999, 2007 Residential Fellowship, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2012 Franklin Research Grants, American Philosophical Society Grants, 1988, 1996, 2011 NEH stipend for a Newberry Library Summer Institute in the French Archival Sciences, 1991 NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 1987 Franco American Commission for Educational Exchange, Interfoundation Grant, 1988 Visiting Fellowship, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 1998 (declined) Ellen Dunbar Temple Visiting Professorship, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, 2003 Residential Fellowship, St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Flintshire, UK, 2007 (declined) Fellowships, Wesleyan Center for the Humanities, 1996, 2004(declined), 2010

Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
300 High Street 203
860-685-3107

Dean of the Arts and Humanities
North College 326
860-685-2706

acurran@wesleyan.edu

BA Hamilton College
MA New York University
PHD New York University

Personal Homepage:
http://acurran.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Scholarly Keywords:
Diderot; History of Science; History of Medicine; Intellectual History; Human Monstrosity in Eighteenth-Century Thought; Representations of Africa in Eighteenth-Century Thought

Publications:
http://acurran.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

BA York University

FREN112 - 01
Intermediate French II

FREN112 - 02
Intermediate French II

FREN215 - 03
Composition and Conversation

FREN112 - 01
Intermediate French II

FREN215 - 02
Composition and Conversation

Office Hours:
Monday and Wednesday, 2:15-3:15 p.m.

BA University of Caen
MA University of North Carolina
PHD University of North Carolina

COL241 - 01
Sophomore Colloquium

FREN215 - 01
Composition and Conversation

COL298 - 01
Minorities in French Cinema

FREN305 - 01
Negotiating French Identity

Office Hours:

M: 12:30-1:30pm and W: 10:50-11:50am (COL 323) + by appointment

Research Interests:

My first book, _Le Corps mondialise': Marie Redonnet, Maryse Conde, Assia Djebar_ (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007) deals with the impact of the globalization of the media on the female body in Francophone literatures from France, the Caribbean, and the Maghreb. (Book and e-book available at link provided below + fnac.com + amazon.fr) My second research project analyzes diverse case studies in the Francophone world that redefine Francophone Postcolonial theory. Issues covered include: 1/ Accident and postcolonial subjectivity in Maryse Conde's detective fiction, 2/ Occidentalism in Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir _Persepolis_, 3/ The veil affair in Quebec, etc. More to come!

Scholarly Keywords:

Francophone Postcolonial Studies. (identity, citizenship, immigration, globalization). Caribbean Studies. Maghrebi Studies.

Publications:
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=25129

DIPL Ecole Normale de Berkendale

FREN101 - 01
French In Action I

FREN101 - 02
French In Action I

FREN101 - 03
French In Action I

FREN102 - 02
French in Action II

FREN102 - 03
French in Action II

FREN223 - 01
French Way(s)

Office Hours:
Mondays and Fridays 12-1 or by appointment

BA Sorbonne
MA New York University
PHD New York University

FREN111 - 01
Intermediate French I

FREN328 - 01
Women and Literature in France

Office Hours:
Mondays 2:40pm-3:40pm/ Fridays 9:50am-10:50am, and by appointment

MA New York University
MA University of Provence
MPHIL New York University
PHD New York University

FREN111 - 02
Intermediate French I

FREN236 - 01
Going South

FREN102 - 01
French in Action II

FREN254 - 01
Paris to Saigon

Office Hours:

Monday and Wednesday, 11AM-12PM, and by appointment

Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
300 High Street 212
860-685-3089

nshapiro@wesleyan.edu

BA Harvard University
MA Harvard University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Harvard University

FREN215 - 02
Composition and Conversation

FREN387 - 01
Power Plays

FREN112 - 02
Intermediate French II

FREN302 - 01
Workshop in Literary Translati

Office Hours:

F12-MWF  10-11, MW    1:30-2:30 and by appointment