Faculty in French and Italian


Patricia Armstrong
(Ph.D. Yale University), Senior Lecturer in French. 17th century French literature; Québécois literature; pedagogy. Assistant Director, Center for Teaching.  patricia.armstrong@vanderbilt.edu 


Tracy Barrett (Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley), Senior Lecturer in Italian. Italian language and literature; Medieval literature. Director of Italian Language Program.  tracy.barrett@vanderbilt.edu


Robert Barsky (Ph.D. McGill University, Montreal), Professor of French and Comparative Literature. Director of Graduate Studies in French. Canadian and Québec studies; literature and culture; radical literature and theory; language theory; immigration.   robert.barsky@vanderbilt.edu


Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller (Ph.D. Emory University), Assistant Professor of French. 20th century French literature and culture; Jewish studies; feminist theory.  n.debrau@vanderbilt.edu


Elsa Filosa (Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Lecturer in Italian.  Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Dante. elsa.filosa@vanderbilt.edu


William Franke (Ph.D. Stanford University), Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian. Dante, Italian literature, hermeneutics, and literary theory.  william.p.franke@vanderbilt.edu

Martine Prieto (Ph.D. University of Paris VII). Senior Lecturer in French. French language, culture and literature.  martine.p.prieto@vanderbilt.edu


Marc Froment-Meurice (Docteur ès lettres, Université de Nice), Professor of French. Modern poetry and poetics; philosophy and literature.   marc.g.froment-meurice@vanderbilt.edu


Susan Kevra (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts), Senior Lecturer in French. Québécois literature and culture, and comparative literature; French travel writing.  susan.k.kevra@vanderbilt.edu


Andrea Mirabile (Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Assistant Professor of Italian. 20th century Italian literature and culture, visual arts, and literary theory.  Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian.  andrea.mirabile@vanderbilt.edu

Anthère Nzabatsinda (Ph.D. Université de Montréal), Associate Professor of French. Francophone literature; linguistics and literature. anthere.nzabatsinda@vanderbilt.edu

Nathalie Dieu Porter (D.E.A. Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium), Senior Lecturer in French. French language and culture. Director of Language Instruction for elementary and intermediate French. nathalie.d.porter@vanderbilt.edu


Lynn Ramey (Ph.D. Harvard University), Associate Professor of French.  Medieval and Renaissance French literature and culture. French film and filmic representations of history.  Chair, Department of French and Italian. lynn.ramey@vanderbilt.edu


Mary Beth Raycraft (Ph.D. New York University), Senior Lecturer in French. Interrelationship of literature and culture in 19th century France; French civilization.  mb.raycraft@vanderbilt.edu


Virginia M. Scott (Ph.D. Emory University), Associate Professor of French. French language and literature; applied linguistics.  Director of Undergraduate Studies in French. virginia.m.scott@vanderbilt.edu

Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (Ph.D. Brown University), Professor of French and African American Studies.  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.  t.sharpley-whiting@vanderbilt.edu


Holly Tucker (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison), Associate Professor of French. Early-modern medicine, literature, gender; 17th century cultural studies.  Associate Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. holly.tucker@vanderbilt.edu 


Lisa Weiss (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz) Lecturer in French, 19th and 20th Century French Literature and culture, Francophone Literature of the Maghreb, Paris urban studies.  Assistant Director of the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies. lisa.weiss@vanderbilt.edu


Faculty working in related fields

Michael D. Bess  Department of History.  Twentieth-century European history with emphasis on the social and cultural impacts of technological change. 

Lauren Clay  Department of History. 
History of early modern France with a focus on culture, society, and empire.

Katherine B. Crawford Department of History.  Gender history with emphasis on early modern France and Europe.

Florence Faucher-King Department of Political Science.  Comparative Politics (Green Politics, Political Parties, and Political Activism) 

Joel Harrington Department of History.  Reformation and early modern Germany with emphasis on social history, particularly marriage, children, and the family. 

Kelly Oliver  Department of Philosophy. 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, especially Nietzsche, and Contemporary French Philosophy, particularly Kristeva.

Matthew Ramsey
  Department of History.  France in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and modern European intellectual and cultural history.

Philip D. Rasico  Department of Spanish and Portuguese.  Hispano-Romance Linguistics, Romance Lingusitics, Catalan Language and Linguistics, Language and Toponymy of Roussillon (Northern Catalonia).

 


Director of Vanderbilt-in-France

Maïté Monchal (Ph.D. University of Arizona), Resident Director of Vanderbilt-in-France. 20th century French literature and gender studies.


Emeriti faculty

Barbara C. Bowen  Emerita Professor of French and Comparative Literature. French Renaissance Literature. 

Dan Church  Emeritus Professor of French.  20th century French theater and film.


James Patty  Emeritus Professor of French. 19th century French literature.

Patricia A. Ward  Emerita Professor of French and Comparative Literature.


Administrative Assistant in French & Italian

Elizabeth Shadbolt  Administrative Assistant.  elizabeth.shadbolt@vanderbilt.edu 



For more information, please contact Elizabeth Shadbolt.
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