Our faculty's pioneering interdisciplinary research has helped to expand and deepen the study of French- and Italian-speaking worlds. We invite you to peruse our publications and research highlights, and to reach out to us with inquiries.
Jody Enders
Distinguished Professor of French and Theater
Research Interests: medieval theater and performance; medieval French literature; translating theater; translation studies; theater history; history of comedy; history of rhetoric; performance theory; interrelations of law and literature.
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Claudio Fogu
Professor of Italian Studies
Research Interests: Mediterranean imaginaries and cultures; relationship between Italian modernism and mass culture; Fascist forms of imaginary and their relations to representations of fascism; relationships between 20th-century continental philosophy and visual culture.
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Stephanie Malia Hom
Associate Professor of Transnational Italian Studies
Research Interests: modern Italy and the Mediterranean; migration and detention; mobility studies; colonialism and imperialism; postcolonial studies; Italian empire and nation-making; tourism studies and theories of travel; tourism and travel literature in and to Italy; folklore and folkloristics; 20th - and 21st-century Italian and Italophone literature.
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Dominique Jullien
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Research Interests: nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture; Proust studies; Borges studies; intertextuality and rewriting; travel narratives; cognitive approaches to literature; and East-West relations.
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Renan Larue
Professor of French
Research Interests: eighteenth-century French literature and cultural studies; history of vegetarianism and veganism; history of ideas; alien studies.
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Didier Maleuvre
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Research Interests: European literature; history of ideas; art and society; philosophy; religion.
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Catherine Nesci
Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies
Research Interests: modern and contemporary French & Francophone literature; modernism; urban and space studies; comparative and world literature; literary theory; literature and care; feminist & gender studies; disability studies; health and medical humanities; German Studies (Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer); Holocaust, trauma, & memory studies.
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Eric Prieto
Professor of French
Research Interests: twentieth-century literature and theory; Francophone literature and culture; postcolonial theory; music and literature; spatial studies; geocriticism.
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Cynthia Skenazi
Professor of French
Research Interests: Renaissance literature and culture; Belgian literature in French; rhetoric; aging studies.
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Giancarlo Tursi
Assistant Professor of Translation Theory and Translation Studies
Research Interests: translation theory; linguistic philosophy; language politics; minoritized languages (dialects, Creoles, patois); nineteenth-century Italian literature and history; Dante studies; philology.
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Emeriti Publications
Our emeriti faculty are leading scholars in the fields of French and Italian, and continue to be active in advancing their research agendas with publications and creative activities. We invite you to explore their publications and research highlights below.
Cynthia J. Brown
Research Professor Emerita of French
Research Interests: Late medieval/early Renaissance French literature and culture; libraries of late medieval women; the transition from manuscript to print culture; issues of authority and authorship; the relationship between text and image; the book as cultural artifact; text-editing.
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Jon R. Snyder
Research Professor Emeritus of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Italian theater; Italian studies; aesthetics; Baroque literature and culture; translation studies.
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Ronald W. Tobin
Research Professor Emeritus of French
Research Interests: 17th-century theater; comedy and tragedy: Molière and Racine; mythology and tragedy; literature and food Studies; classical civilities.
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