Graduate Faculty

Robert Barsky (Ph.D. McGill), Professor of French and Comparative Literature. Canadian and Québec studies; literature and culture; radical literature and theory; language theory; immigration.  email

Jérôme Brillaud (Ph.D. Harvard), Assistant Professor of French. 17th- and 18th-century theater and philosophy. email

Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller (Ph.D. Emory), Associate Professor of French. 20th century French literature and culture; Jewish studies; feminist theory. email [on leave fall 2011 and spring 2012]

William Franke (Ph.D. Stanford), Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian. Religion and Literature; Philosophy and Theory; Dante and Epic Tradition email [on research leave 2011]

Marc Froment-Meurice (Docteur ès lettres, Université de Nice), Professor of French. Modern poetry and poetics; philosophy and literature.   email [on leave fall 2011]

Paul B. Miller (Ph.D. Emory), Assistant Professor of French, specializing in Caribbean Studies.  Comparative approaches to Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean literature.  Writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Marie Chauvet, and Maryse Condé.  email

Andrea Mirabile (Ph.D. UNC-CH), Assistant Professor of Italian. 20th century Italian literature and culture, visual arts, and literary theory.  Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian. email [on leave fall 2011]

Anthère Nzabatsinda (Ph.D. Montréal), Associate Professor of French. Francophone literature; linguistics and literature. email

Lynn Ramey (Ph.D. Harvard), Associate Professor of French.  Medieval and Renaissance French literature and culture. French film and filmic representations of history.  Chair, Department of French and Italian. email

Virginia M. Scott (Ph.D. Emory), Associate Professor of French. French language and literature; applied linguistics. Director of Undergraduate Studies in French. email

Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (Ph.D. Brown), Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French.  18th and 19th century literature and culture, Jazz Age, Black Diaspora Women Writers. Director of African American Studies. Director of the Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies.  email [in Aix-en-Provence fall 2011]

Holly Tucker (Ph.D. Wisconsin), Associate Professor of French. Director of Graduate Studies. Early-modern medicine, literature, gender; 17th century cultural studies.  email