Details about the French Literature Program
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Faculty Members
The Programs
Related Programs at IU
Current Research Projects
Recent and Current Dissertations
Career Paths
The Campus
For More Information
Deadlines
Faculty Members (for full profiles, click here)
Guillaume Ansart, Associate Professor (18th century literature; aesthetics and sociology of the novel, political philosophy, anthropology).
Patrick Bray, Assistant Professor (19th- and 20th-century literature and culture, critical theory and history of ideas).
Jérôme Brillaud, Assistant Professor (History of the theater and intellectual history with an emphasis on post-classical tragedy (1680-1789) in France).
Margaret Gray, Associate Professor (20th-century literature, particularly prose fiction, and literary criticism).
Eileen Julien, Professor (20th century literature and culture, especially the literatures of Africa, the African diaspora and France in their relationships to one another; the novel, postcolonial theory).
Rosemary Lloyd, Professor (19th-century literature and visual arts).
Eric MacPhail, Associate Professor (16th-century literature, especially lyric and narrative).
Jacques E. Merceron, Professor (Medieval literature and civilization).
Emanuel J. Mickel, Professor (Medieval literature, especially the roman and the chanson de geste; 19th-century literature, especially poetry, the novel, painting and literature).
Oana Panaïté, Assistant Professor (20th-century French and Francophone literature, Contemporary Studies, Poetics and Literary Theory).
Sonya Stephens, Professor (19th-century literature and culture).
Rebecca Wilkin, Assistant Professor (Seventeenth-century French literature, history of ideas from a feminist perspective).
The Programs
• MA in French Literature
• PhD in French Literature
Related Programs at Indiana University
• Department of Comparative
Literature
• Department
of Gender Studies
• Program in West European Studies (WEST)
• Medieval Studies Institute (MEST)
• Renaissance
Studies
• Center
for Eighteenth Century Studies. (For more
information, please contact
Prof.
Dror Wahrman, Acting
Director)
Current Research Projects in French Literature
Graduate students in French Literature at IU are strongly encouraged to join, early in their graduate careers, a Groupe de Recherches in one of the following three areas: Moyen-Age/Renaissance, Ancien Régime, and Période Moderne. For more information about these groups, contact Professor Merceron, Professor Brillaud, or Professor Panaïté or check here for updates as the 2007-2008 academic year progresses.
Recent and Current Dissertations
- “Love or Country: The Assimilation of the Female Foreigner in French Seventeenth-Century Literature"
- “Punishment of Female Characters in 18th and 20th Century Francophone Novels”
- “Jeunesse: Social context and literary function in the instruction of knights (France 1000-1300)”
- “The Representation of the Working Classes in Selected Novels by Emile Zola”
- “To the Other Shore: Buddhism in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar”
- “De/Re-Essentializing the Feminine: Subversion and Utopia in the Novels of Amélie Nothomb”
- “Disability as Artistic Pose in French Literature, 1870-1914”
- “L’Alba Provençale:Une Edition Critique”
- “From Object to Subject: Moments in the Evolution of French Feminine Theater”
- “Contrary Female Voices: Writing Ethics in Beauvoir, Rochefort, Mallet-Joris, and Harpman”
- “Romancing the Journey: The Livre Jehan de Mandeville as Romance”
- “The Childhood of the Epic Hero: A Study of the 13th and 14th Century ‘Enfances’ Volumes”
- “Laughing Fit to Kill: Aspects of Wit in the Works of Delphine Gay de Girardin”
- “Loving the Creator and His Creations: Ethical Reflections on the Nature of Love in the Fourteenth-Century Echecs amoureux”
- “From Object to Subject: Women Write the Body”
- “Marceline Desborders-Valmore and Feminine Poetics: At the Heart of French Romanticism”
Career Paths
Our recent graduates in French literature have obtained jobs teaching French literature and language in colleges and universities across the country. Other possible career paths include secondary school teaching, university administration, and foreign service.
The Campus
The Bloomington campus has been recognized as one of the five most beautiful campuses in the nation. Bloomington provides all the cultural and social benefits of a larger city (including a top music school) and yet retains the charm of a small town. For more information see our Life in Bloomington page.
For More Information
Graduate Admissions Chair
French Literature Program
Department of French and Italian
Ballantine Hall 642
1020 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7103
Phone: (812) 855-1088
Fax: (812) 855-8877
E-mail: Jocelyn Karlan, Graduate Secretary (jkarlan @indiana.edu)
Deadlines
Application deadline for Fall admission is January 15.
For international students,
the deadline is December
1.
