Faculty Listing
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A B C -D E F - G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Emeritus Faculty
- Bray, Patrick - Assistant Professor
- 19th-and 20th-century French literature and culture, including novel and poetry; Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Emile Zola, and Marcel Proust. Critical theory and history of ideas. Space and subjectivity. Text and image.
- email: pbray@illinois.edu • phone: 265-6479 • FLB 2103
- Fagyal, Zsuzsanna - Associate Professor
- Phonetics, Phonology and Sociolinguistics of different varieties of French. French prosody, sound change and variation in Paris, French spoken in lower-class immigrant suburbs of Paris.
- email: zsfagyal@illinois.edu • phone: 265-0743 • FLB 2130
- Flinn, Margaret - Assistant Professor
- French and European film, particularly of the interwar period (René Clair, Jean Vigo, Jean Renoir), city films and topographical narratives, classic film theory, militant and documentary filmmaking, film and other arts, 19th and 20th century French literature and visual culture, new media art and digital cinema.
- email: mflinn@illinois.edu • phone: 333-2020 • FLB 2128
- Fresco, Alain - Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Advisor
- The Négritude poets, literature from French West Africa: representation of tradition and modernity in the novels from 1950 to the present; gender roles - interested in the various theories of racism in nineteenth-, twentieth-century colonial and postcolonial discourse. Director of Undergraduate Studies and Undergraduate Student Advisor.
- email: afresco@illinois.edu • phone: 244-2723 • FLB 2090K
- Fresco, Karen - Associate Professor
- Medieval French literature with special interest in romance and lyric; codicology, the design of manuscript anthologies; feminist theory.
- email: kfresco@illinois.edu • phone: 244-2716 • FLB 2148
- Golato, Peter - Associate Professor - Director of Graduate Studies
- Psycholinguistics; second language acquisition theory; speech processing; bilingualism.
- email: pgolato@illinois.edu • phone: 244-8215 • FLB 2090N
- Goulet, Andrea - Associate Professor
- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French fiction; critical theory; history of optics and visual theory; literature and science; nineteenth-century detective fiction; Claude Simon and the new novel.
- email: agoulet@illinois.edu • phone: 265-0774 • FLB 2150
- Keller, Marcus - Assistant Professor
- Early modern French literature and civilization (16th and 17th century); critical theory and political philosophy; literature, politics and visual arts; the nation in literary and theoretical discourse; early modern orientalism and figurations of Islam.
- email: mkeller@illinois.edu • phone: 265-6476 • FLB 2107
- Kibbee, Douglas - Professor
- History of the French language, particularly social and political history; history of the teaching of French as a second/foreign language; history of linguistic thought and lexicography; history of language policy in France, other francophone countries, and the U.S.; language policy and human rights.
- email: dkibbee@illinois.edu • phone: 244-3252 • FLB 4072B
- Mall, Laurence - Associate Professor
- Eighteenth-century French literature and philosophy; autobiography; history of ideas; narratology. Rousseau, Diderot, Prévost, Marivaux, Mercier.
- email: lmall@illinois.edu • phone: 333-4989 • FLB 2120
- Mathy, Jean-Philippe - Professor
- Late modern and contemporary French literature and culture, intellectual history (19th-20th c.), comparative cultural criticism (France-U.S.), French-American intellectual relations, sociology of culture and literature, contemporary social and critical theory, literature and nationalism, computer imaging/computer-assisted teaching (culture and civilization).
- email: jmathy@illinois.edu • phone: 244-2718 • FLB 2122
- Mortimer, Armine Kotin - Professor - Head of Department
- Narrative literature of all periods, especially nineteenth and twentieth centuries; contemporary literature and theory; criticism and interpretive theory; the short story; Barthes; Balzac; Sollers; sixteenth-century poetry; Scève; narrative closure; music and literature.
- email: armine@illinois.edu • phone: 333-2020 • FLB 2090H
- Murdoch, Adlai - Associate Professor
- French Caribbean literature; postcolonial studies; cultural studies; narrative theory and practice; antillanité, créolité; Glissant, Condé, Chamoiseau.
- email: hmurdoch@illinois.edu • phone: 244-2720 • FLB 2090L
- Salhi, Kamal - Knudson Visiting French and Francophone Studies Advisor
- e-mail: k.salhi@leeds.ac.uk
- Schehr, Lawrence - Professor
- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American narrative, queer studies, gender studies, literary theory, feminism, French cultural studies, contemporary AIDS writing, literature and sexuality, food and literature.
- email: schehr@illinois.edu • phone: 244-2717 • FLB 2150
- Tremblay, Annie - Assistant Professor
- First and second language acquisition; psycholinguistics; speech processing; phonology.
- email: atrembla@illinois.edu • phone 265-0764 • FLB 2101
Emeritus Faculty
- Accad, Evelyne
- email: e-accad@illinois.edu • phone: 333-4887 • 1205 1/2 W. Nevada, # 305
- Andrews, Dianne
- Second language acquisition; teacher education; methods and materials; communicative language teaching.
- email: andrews1@illinois.edu • phone: 333-2020 • FLB 2021
- De Ley, Herbert
- Gray, Stan
- email: s-gray2@illinois.edu
- Hadley, Alice
- Research on schema-based understanding/comprehension (listening/ reading); pedagogical research (involving skill development in listening /speaking/ reading/writing); studies on role of feedback in writing; effects of instructional techniques on student performance.
- email: acoh@illinois.edu • phone: 244-2728
- Jahiel, Edwin
- Jenkins, Fred
- email: fmajatf@illinois.edu • phone: 333-2714 • 1205 1/2 W. Nevada, # 205
- Nelson, Robert J.
- email: robertnelson25@sbcglobal.net
- Talbot, Emile
- Nineteenth-century French literature, with special interest in the novel and poetry. Interdisciplinary interests: literature and painting; literature and ideology. Québec literature, with special interest in the novel and poetry.
- email: ejtalbot@illinois.edu • phone: 333-9628 • 1205 1/2 W. Nevada, # 305