Faculty

Mark Cohen

B.A., University of Cambridge (England). Diploma 3e Cycle, Grenoble. M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Special interests: sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century French literature; literary theory; fragmentary forms in French and German literature; reception studies; ideas of classicism. Articles in Papers in Seventeenth-Century French Literature, French Forum, Lingua Franca, Gale Dictionary of Literary Biography. SLC, 2004-

Richard Dickinson

B.A., Harvard University. M.A., Ph.D., New York University. Special interest in French poetry; author of Degas’ Portrait of Madame Gaujelin and Le Message Politique de Clytemnestre. SLC, 1984-

Eric Leveau

Normale Supérieure, Agrégation in French Literature and Classics. M.A., Sorbonne. Currently finishing a doctoral dissertation in seventeenth-century French literature at the Sorbonne. Special interests in early modern French literature; theories and poetics of theatre (from the late sixteenth century to the Romantics); women and literature; the shifting definition of the writer; and the development of the idea of style from the Renaissance to the Romantics. SLC, 2003-

Angela Moger

B.A., Bryn Mawr College. M.A., University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D., Yale University. Special interests include theory of narrative, French literature of the nineteenth century, decadence in painting and literature, and semiotic and rhetorical approaches to the short story. Recipient of Yale University’s Mary Cady Tew Prize and the Dwight and Noyes Clark fellowship. Scholarly publications include essays in PMLA, Yale French Studies, and Substance; the anthologies Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism and Maupassant Conteur et Romancier; and the books Hurdles and Moving Forward, Holding Fast:The Dynamics of Movement in Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Visiting professor at the Institut d’Etudes Francaises d’Avignon. Dean of studies, Sarah Lawrence College, 1972-1975. SLC, 1971-