French Studies Faculty

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://web.mac.com/andrewscurran/wesleyan

Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday, 11:50-12:50 p.m.

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

Publications:
http://web.mac.com/andrewscurran/wesleyan

BA York University

FREN112 - 01
Intermediate French II

FREN112 - 02
Intermediate French II

FREN215 - 02
Composition and Conversation

FREN102 - 02
French in Action II

FREN102 - 03
French in Action II

Office Hours:
Monday and Wednesday, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

BA University of Caen
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PHD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

COL241 - 01
Sophomore Colloquium

FREN311 - 01
The Franco-Arab World

COL305 - 01
Nomadic Islanders

FREN215 - 01
Composition and Conversation

Office Hours:
M & F: 9:30-10:30am SQUASH 323

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

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

BA Sorbonne
MA New York University
PHD New York University

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

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

FREN254 - 01
Paris to Saigon

FREN102 - 01
French in Action II

FREN224 - 01
19th & 20th French Literature

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

jrider@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MA University of Chicago
PHD University of Chicago

FREN215 - 01
Composition and Conversation

FREN334 - 01
Days & Knights of Round Table

Office Hours:
On leave 2011-12.

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 212
860-685-3089

nshapiro@wesleyan.edu

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

FREN215 - 03
Composition and Conversation

FREN383 - 01
Poets & Playwrights of Negritu

FREN215 - 02
Composition and Conversation

FREN285 - 01
Fables, Foibles, Messages

Office Hours:
F10 Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10:00-10:50 a.m. Monday and Wednesday 2:30-3:30 p.m.