Seda Chavdarian
Senior Lecturer and Acting Direcor of the Language Program

2001 Distinguished Teaching Award.

2008 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors.

Acting Director: Lower Division.

Director: Summer Sessions Paris Program 2002-2007

Research interests include Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, Twentieth Century Literature/Nouveau-Roman/Michel Butor, Francophone women writers. Publications in various literary journals and special editions.

Ulysse Dutoit
Senior Lecturer

The visual arts, particularly film and painting.

Publications include:

 Rohmer's Salon, Film Quarterly Fall 2009

Forms of Being Cinema, Aesthetics,Subjectivity. BFI 2004

Les Secrets du Caravage edition EPEL Paris (Dec 2002). Reviewed in Le Monde January 2003; Le Nouvelle Observateur January 2003, Beaux Arts magazine April 2003.

Caravaggio: Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio (with L. Bersani, British Film Institute, 1999)

Caravaggio’s Secrets (with L. Bersani, MIT Press, 1998)

Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko and Resnais (with L. Bersani, Harvard University Press, l993)

The Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture (with L. Bersani, Schocken Books, l985)