Illinois

Faculty

  • Blake, NancyProfessorComparative Lit 3072 Flb 707 S Mathews M/C 160 Urbana, IL 61801(217)244-2708nblake@illinois.edu

    19th- and 20th-Century European and American literature, painting and film; Modernism and Post-Modernism, Interdisciplinary research, Psychoanalytic theory, Women's studies, Translation.

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    Fagyal, ZsuzsannaAdvisor for Linguistics Associate ProfessorFrench 2090 Foreign Lang Bl 707 S Mathews M/C 158 Urbana, IL 61801(217) 333-2020zsfagyal@illinois.edu

    Phonetics, Phonology and Sociolinguistics of different varieties of French. French prosody, language variation and change in dialects and working-class Parisian French. Social networks, social interaction and linguistic innovations, adolescent language use, language and minorities in Europe.

  • Fresco, AlainDirector of Undergraduate Studies Assistant Professor2090K FLB244-2723afresco@illinois.edu

    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.

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    Fresco, KarenDepartment Head Associate ProfessorFrench 2090 Flb 707 S Mathews M/C 158 Urbana, IL 61801(217)244-2727kfresco@illinois.edu

    Medieval French literature with special interest in romance and lyric; codicology, the design of manuscript anthologies; feminist theory.

  • Golato, Peter Advisor for Language Learning and SLATE Associate Professor2090N FLB244-8215pgolato@illinois.edu

    Psycholinguistics; second language acquisition theory; speech processing; bilingualism.

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    Keller, MarcusDirector of Graduate Studies Associate Professor2107 FLB265-6476mkeller@illinois.edu

    Early modern French literature and culture (16th and 17th century); Rabelais, Pléiade, Montaigne, d'Aubigné, and Corneille; aesthetics and politics; early modern orientalism; the nation in literary and theoretical discourse; French and European theater.

  • Mall, LaurenceAdvisor for French Studies Associate Professor2154 FLB333-7813lmall@illinois.edu

    Eighteenth-century French literature and philosophy –emphasis on the philosophes, on the novel, and on history of ideas. Literature and the French Revolution. Theories of everyday life. Ethics and literature. Gender issues. Autobiography. Rousseau, Diderot, Prévost, Marivaux, Mercier, Rétif.

  • Mathy, Jean-PhilippeProfessor4072A FLB244-2718jmathy@illinois.edu

    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).

  • Toharia Zapata, CristinaDirector of Basic Language Visiting Lecturer2090M FLB244-2715ctoharia@illinois.edu

Visiting Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

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    Benmamoun, Abbas Affiliate Professor School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics. 4088 Flb 707 S Mathews M/C 171 Urbana, IL 61801(217) 333-3252benmamou@illinois.edu

    Syntax, Morphology, Arabic, Semitic, Arabic as a Heritage Language, Acquisition of Arabic as First and second Language.

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    Chaplin, TamaraAssociate ProfessorHistory 309 Gregory Hall 810 S Wright M/C 466 Urbana, IL 61801(217)244-2078tchaplin@illinois.edu

    Contemporary France; Modern European cultural and intellectual history; the histories of gender and sexuality; feminist and critical theory; queer studies; human rights, popular culture and the media.

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    Crowston, ClareAssociate ProfessorHistory 309 Gregory Hall 810 S Wright M/C 466 (217)244-2095crowston@illinois.edu

    The history of women and gender in Old Régime France; women’s work, material culture, and consumption.

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    Golato, AndreaAssociate ProfessorGermanic Lang & Lit 209 For Lang Bldg 707 S Mathews M/C 178 Urbana, IL 61801(217)244-3248golato@illinois.edu

    Conversation analysis; culture and communication; grammar in interaction; web chats; repair initiators in French; prosody and processing of pragmatics.

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    Hassan , WailProfessor707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801217-265-7611whassan@illinois.edu

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    Koven, MicheleAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Communication, 3001 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL 61801217-333-8969mkoven@illinois.edu

    Discourses of identity in bilingual French-Portuguese communities in France and in Portugal.

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    Markee, NumaAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 4080 Foreign Languages Building 707 S Mathews MC 168 Urbana, IL 61801(217) 333-3788nppm@illinois.edu

    Conversation analysis; the diffusion and management of curricular innovations; conversation analysis applied to second language acquisition, and classroom research.

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    O'Brien, DavidAssociate ProfessorArt History 143 Art & Design 408 E Peabody Dr M/C 590 Champaign, IL 61820(217)333-7102obrien1@illinois.edu

    Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art, particularly the art and politics of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.

  • Prochaska, DavidAssociate Professor of History423 Gregory Hall, MC-466, 810 S. Wright St.(217) 244-2093dprochas@illinois.edu

    Comparative colonialism; North Africa, particularly Algeria; orientalism; the representation of Algeria in Western painting and photography; the construction of the Arab other.

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    Rothberg, MichaelEnglish217-333-2524mpr@illinois.edu

    Focus on Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies, Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice. His articles have appeared in Yale French Studies, Critical Inquiry, Criticism, Littérature, and Tangence. He is the author, most recently, of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Stanford University Press, 2009) and co-edited a special double issue of Yale French Studies, Noeuds de Mémoire: Multidirectional Memory in Postwar French and Francophone Culture.

  • Szylowicz, CarolineAssociate ProfessorLiterature and Languages Library 225 Main Library 1408 W Gregory Dr M/C 522 Urbana, IL 61801(217)244-3092szylowic@illinois.edu

    Proust's correspondence and manuscripts, collection development in fin-de-siècle erotic and popular literature.

Emeritus Faculty

In Memoriam