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Professors:

Grace M. Armstrong, Eunice Morgan Schenck 1907 Professor, Major Adviser, Chair
Thomas Hall 150, Bryn Mawr College
garmstro@brynmawr.edu

Nancy J. Vickers, President of the College

Associate Professors:

Brigitte Mahuzier, Directrice, Institut d'études françaises d'Avignon (On leave 2007-08)
Thomas Hall 146, Bryn Mawr
bmahuzie@brynmawr.edu

Francis Higginson
, Director of Graduate Studies (On leave semester II)
Thomas Hall 147, Bryn Mawr College
fhiggins@brynmawr.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor:

Catherine Dana
Thomas Hall 146, Bryn Mawr College
cdana@brynmawr.edu

Lecturers:

Lynn Anderson
Bryn Mawr College
lsanderson@brynmawr.edu

Benjamin Cherel
Thomas Hall 149, Bryn Mawr College
bcherel@brynmawr.edu

Agnès Peysson-Zeiss
Thomas Hall 145, Bryn Mawr College
apeyssonze@brynmawr.edu

Instructor:

Florence Echtman
Thomas Hall 142, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
fechtman@brynmawr.edu

Members of the Bryn Mawr College French Department:

Lynn Anderson (Ph.D., Princeton) is a lecturer in the Department of French.  She is a specialist in modern French poetry and teaches a 200-level course on the poetry of city spaces and 20-th C. novels and cinematic adaptations. 

Grace Armstrong (Ph.D., Princeton) Eunice Morgan Schenck 1907 Professor, is a specialist in the French Middle Ages as well as stylistics. Among her courses are "Le Chevalier, la femme, et le prêtre", "Printemps de la parole féminine", "Voix médiévales et échos modernes", and "La Femme: sujet/objet". She also has taught an interdepartmental course "Medieval Women". She is a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and the "Outstanding Mentor" Award from Women in French. . A graduate of Bryn Mawr's Institut at Avignon, she has taught there often and has twice been a visiting professor at Princeton.

Benjamin Cherel (D.E.A., Université de Grenoble) joins the department as Lecturer in French. A specialist in language pedagogy, he teaches all levels from elementary through the advanced style course.  As a sociologist, he also plays a significant role in the French culture track.  

Catherine Dana (Ph.D., Yale University), Visiting Assistant Professor, is a specialist of 20th-C. French and Francophone novels with a special interest in Holocaust studies and postcolonial literature of the Mediterranean Basin. The author of critical studies as well as fiction and nonfiction, she comes to us from positions on both sides of the Atlantic. She teaches “La Mosaïque France” as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on Algerian women writers in France and Camus.


Florence Echtman
(A.B.D., University of Pennsylvania) specializes in language pedagogy and the teaching of civilisation. She teaches the regular intermediate sequence,
Directions de la France contemporaine, and Travaux pratiques de langue- niveau avancé both at Bryn Mawr and Haverford.

Francis Higginson (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley), Associate Professor of French, is a comparatist who works in 20th-C. French and Francophone literatures (North and West Africa, the Antilles and Quebec). He is interested in the relationship between music and literature (the subject of a graduate seminar he teaches) and, particularly, in the nexus between this relationship and the construction of race. In addition to teaching "Missionaires et cannibales: de Malraux à Modiano1930-1995", he teaches "Regards croisés: France/Maghreb" and courses on surrealism and French and Francophone crime fiction.

Brigitte Mahuzier (Ph.D., Cornell), Associate Professor of French, Directrice, Institut d'études françaises d'Avignon, specializes in Modern French history, cultural studies, and gender and queer theory. Among her courses are: "Histoire des femmes en France de la Révolution àl'époque moderne," "Ecrire la grande guerre," "Histoire de la pensée moderne: de Lévi-Strauss à Derrida," "Littérature et gastronomie," and a number of seminars on fin-de siècle aesthetics and politics as well as on the work and reception of Marcel Proust.

Agnès Peysson-Zeiss (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is Lecturer in French and Coordinator of the Intensive Language sequence in French. Trained in France in the pedagogy of teaching French to foreigners, she is a specialist as well of 19th-C. literature and recent Francophone novels and their cinematic versions.

Nancy Vickers joined the Bryn Mawr College community as its seventh president on July 1, 1997. She came to the College from the University of Southern California, where she was the dean of curriculum and instruction in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and professor of French, Italian and Comparative Literature.

Vickers is a scholar in the fields of literary and cultural studies. Her interests range from Renaissance poetry to the transformation of the lyric genre as a result of changing technologies such as music video and television. She has published numerous articles, including "Blazing Beauties: Marot's Poetic Anatomies," in the 1997 volume The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, and "Lyric in the Video Decade," in the journal Discourse, volume 16.1.


She is the co-editor of Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Differences in Early Modern Europe and A New History of French Literature, for which she and her coeditors received the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize in 1990. Vickers also coedited The Medusa Reader, an interpretive anthology of texts referring to Medusa from Homer to the present day, which will be published in the fall of 2001.

Vickers received her bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1967 and her master's and doctorate in philosophy degrees from Yale University in 1971 and 1976, respectively. She taught French and Italian at Dartmouth College from 1973 until 1987, when she joined the University of Southern California faculty.

Faculty At Haverford College:

http://www.haverford.edu/fren/faculty/index.html


Professor Koffi Anyinefa, Chair
Visiting Assistant Professor Joanna Augustyn
Assistant Professor Duane Kight
Associate Professor David Sedley, On leave 2007-08

 



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