Teaching:
Instructional Tech
Interests
Current
Future
Recent
Teaching interests
- Renaissance studies / early modern Europe
- Early modern French poetry
- History of the classical tradition (Classics dept. affiliate)
- Gender and national identity in early modern French literature
- Travel themes in literature (Comparative Literature Program affiliate)
- Mythology and Modernity
- Alienation in contemporary literature
- Introductory French language and literature
Current Semester:
Spring Semester 2009
- FR 390K : Gender and Genre in 16th Century French Literature
- LAH 350 / WGS 345 : Writing the Alienated Self
Future Semesters
Recent Semesters
Fall Semester 2008
- FR 326K : Introduction to French Literature I
- UGS 302 : Writing from the Margins
Spring Semester 2007
- CL 385: Theories of Literary Criticism
- LAT 366: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Lyric Poetry
Fall Semester 2006
- FR 326K: Introduction to French Literature I (x 2)
Courses taught
Undergraduate
French:
First-year French (FR 506, FR 507)
Second-year French (FR 312K, FR 312L)
Second-year French grammar and reading, taught in English (FR 310K)
Advanced French II: Oral Emphasis (FR 322E)
Introduction to French Literature (Renaissance-20th century) (FR 321L)
Introduction to French Literature I (Middle Ages-18th century) (FR 326K)
Misogyny and Identity in French Renaissance Literature (FR 355)
Extradepartmental Undergraduate Courses:
On the Road: From Homer to the Coen Brothers (CL 323)
Writing the Alienated Self (LAH 350)
Advanced Lyric Poetry: Classical and Medieval (LAT 366)
Graduate Seminars:
Theories of Literary Criticism (CL385)
Imitation et Identité dans la Poésie Française de
la Renaissance (FR 390K)
The Development of French Identity in Renaissance France (FR390K)
La Littérature Française des 16e/17e siècles : Miroir
de la Conscience Nationale Naissante (FR 382L)
Critical Approaches to French Renaissance Literature (independent study)
The European Sonnet (independent study)