Esther Alder
Lecturer Emerita of French

Bertrand Augst
Professor Emeritus

17th- and 20th-century literature; comparative literature; modern theatre; film history and film theory.

Leo Bersani
Professor Emeritus

19th- and 20th-century literature; psychoanalysis and literature; literature and the visual arts; cultural criticism.

Publications include:
Homos (Harvard University Press, 1995)

Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko and Resnais (with U. Dutoit, Harvard University Press, 1993)

The Culture of Redemption (Harvard University Press, 1990)

The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (Columbia University Press, 1986)

The Forms of Violence (with U. Dutoit, Schocken Books, 1985)

The Death of Stéphane Mallarmé (Cambridge University Press, 1981)

Baudelaire and Freud (UC Press, 1979)

A Future for Astyanax (Little, Brown, 1976)

Balzac to Beckett (Oxford University Press, 1970)

Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art (Oxford University Press, 1965)

Joseph Duggan
Professor in the Graduate School, French and Comparative Literature

Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professor for 2007-2008

Professor Duggan specializes in medieval French and Occitan language and literature. His principal research interests are medieval epic, romance, and lyric poetry (especially the troubadours). His most recent publications include an edition of the French corpus of the Chanson de Roland (2006), of which he was the general editor; and, within that project, an edition of the Châteauroux and Venice 7 manuscripts of the Chanson de Roland.

Publications include:
The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes (Yale University Press, 2001)

“Garin le Loherain Between Assonance and Rhyme.” Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire 83 (2005), 707-22

“Guilhem IX of Aquitaine’s Poem About Nothing, and the Generation of Meaning,” Contez me tout: Mélanges Herman Braet (Louvain: Peeters, 2006)

Basil Guy
Professor Emeritus

18th-century literature; Le Prince de Ligne; Péguy; History of ideas; comparative literature.

Publications include:
Prince de Ligne\'s Coup-d\'Oeil at Beloeil (1795 version), (ed. and trans., UC Press, 1992)

Domestic Correspondence of D-M. Varlet, Bishop of Babylon (ed., Brill, 1986)

Leonard Johnson
Professor Emeritus

Late Medieval and 16th-century literature; literature and society; history of ideas. Presently working on anthology of late medieval poetry (Le Jardin de plaisance et fleur de rhétorique) and on a study of food metaphors in French literature.

Publications include:
“Prince or Princes: Fifteenth-century Poetry and Poetics” French Review, February (1995)

Poets as Players: Theme and Variation in Late Medieval French Poetry (Stanford University Press, 1991)

Walter Rex
Professor Emeritus

18th-century literature; Diderot, Bayle; L’Encyclopédie; music and literature.

Publications include:
“Le Neveu de Rameau: Musique et Structure,” in Recherches Sur Diderot et Sur L’Encyclopédie (Aux Amateurs de livres)

“Diderot’s Counterpoints: The Dynamics of Contrariety” in his Major Works (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998)

The Attraction of the Contrary: Essays on the Literature of the French Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, l987)

Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt
Senior Lecturer SOE Emerita of French

Françoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt teaches the undergraduate course “French for Politics, Economics, and Business.” Her research interests are in phonetics/aural comprehension, French for business, and contemporary France more generally (politics, economics, social issues). She recruits and interviews students who will spend a year studying in France and educates them on the various features of the French university system that they will encounter.