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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, language variation and change in dialects and working-class Parisian French. Social networks, social interaction and linguistic innovations in adolescent language use.
email: zsfagyal@illinois.edu • phone: 265-0743 • FLB 2130 • Office Hours: T & Th 11:00am - 12:00pm
 
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: 265-0744 • FLB 2128 • Office Hours: Th 2:00pm - 3:00pm
 
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 • Office Hours: T & Th 9:30am - 10:45am and 12:45pm - 2:45pm
 
Fresco, Karen - Associate Professor - Head of Department
Medieval French literature with special interest in romance and lyric; codicology, the design of manuscript anthologies; feminist theory.
email: kfresco@illinois.edu • phone: 333-2020 • FLB 2090H • Office Hours: M-F 1:00pm - 5:00pm / for 207 class M 1:00pm - 2:00pm
 
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 • Office Hours: M & T 1:00pm - 2:30pm
 
Keller, Marcus - Assistant Professor
Early modern French literature and culture (16th and 17th century); aesthetics and politics; early modern orientalisms and figurations of Islam; the nation in literary and theoretical discourse; theater.
email: mkeller@illinois.edu • phone: 265-6476 • FLB 2107 • Office Hours: M & W 12:00pm - 1:00pm
 
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 • Office Hours: Th 9:00am - 10:00am
 
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 • Office Hours: M 11:00am - 12:00pm & F 11:30am - 12:30pm
 
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 • Office Hours: W 11:00am - 12:00pm
 
Mortimer, Armine Kotin - Professor
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: 333-7813 • FLB 2154 • Office Hours: On Leave
 
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
 
Nimis, John - Visiting Instructor
African literature, Francophone literature, music and literature, literary theory, memory and narrative; Congolese music, Lingala, Sony Labou Tansi.
email: jnimis2@illinois.edu • phone: 333-0446 • FLB 2115 • Office Hours: T 2:00pm - 3:00pm & W 3:00pm - 4:00pm
 
Phillips-Batoma, Patricia - Instructor
Translation Studies, Pedagogy of Translation and Languages for Specific Purposes, Medieval French Literature.
email: pphillip@illinois.edu • phone: 333-6364 • FLB 2017 • Office Hours: F 11:00am - 1:00pm or by appt.
 
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 • Office Hours: M & W 1:00pm - 1:50pm
 
Toharia, Cristina - Visiting Lecturer and Director of Basic Language Program
email: ctoharia@illinois.edu • phone: 244-2715 • FLB 2090M • Office Hours: T & Th 1:00pm - 2:00pm
 
Tremblay, Annie - Assistant Professor
Second language acquisition and processing; psycholinguistics; speech perception and production.
email: atrembla@illinois.edu • phone 265-0764 • FLB 2101 • Office Hours: M 11:00am - 12:00pm & W 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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 2111
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