The French Studies Program at Cornell, with the support of the College of Arts & Sciences, was established thanks to a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy designating Cornell University as a "Centre Interdisciplinaire." The program promotes teaching and research on the French and Francophone worlds and serves as a resource center for teachers of French in upstate New York. Throughout the academic year, the program organizes lectures, colloquia, and other events dealing with various aspects of France and the Francophone countries (art, culture, thought and society). The French Studies Program actively contributes to creative and collective research from all the disciplines at Cornell. In inviting innovative and distinguished speakers from different countries, the program favors an atmosphere of intellectual exchange between undergrads, graduate students and scholars on campus.

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Claire Menard

Senior Lecturer of French Language

Philip Lewis

Professor Emeritus of French Literature

Richard Klein

Professor Emeritus of French Literature

Flavien Glidja

Senior Lecturer of French Language

Nelly Furman

Professor Emerita of French Language

Alice Colby-Hall

Professor Emerita of French Literature

Laurent Ferri

Curator and Adjunct Associate Professor

Publications

EDITED BOOKS

  1. L’Histoire-Bataille [co-editor], Geneva: Droz, 2006, 150 p. http://books.google.com
  2. Ils racontent la mondialisation, de Sénèque à Lévi-Strauss, Paris: Saint-Simon, 2005, 274 p. http://www.edsaintsimon.com/catalogue.php

EXHIBITIONS

  • Curator of: Lafayette, Citizen of Two Worlds, Cornell University, Kroch Library, RMC, September 2007-June 2008. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/
  • Paper Catalog: Lafayette, Citizen of Two Worlds, Ithaca: Kroch Library, RMC, 2007, 46 p.
  • Co-curator of an exhibition about the 16th-century Renaissance, Spring of 2010, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, with Andrew Weislogel. http://www.museum.cornell.edu/earthlyparadise/index.html

CATALOGS (ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS)

  • Guide to the Jared Sparks Collection of Autographs of Washington, Franklin, and Lafayette Bd. Ms. 548++ http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM004600-548.html

  • Guide to the Witchcraft Collection, Unbound Manuscripts, #4620, 1560-1973 [Bulk 16th and 17th centuries / German provinces], RMC, Cornell Library.http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM04620.html

  • Guide to the French Revolution and Napoleon Manuscripts Collection 4606, 1752-1882 [Bulk 1788-1815], RMC, Cornell Library. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM04606.html

  • Guide to the Lafayette Collection 4611 (50 linear feet), RMC, Cornell Library. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM04611.html

  • Archives de Pierre Laroque [with Viktoria Prozorova and alii, under the supervision of Christine Pétillat], Archives nationales, Paris, Paris: La Documentation Française, 186 p.

  • Archives de Charles Fiterman (1981-1984). Archives nationales, Paris.

  • Archives du Commissariat à l’énergie solaire (1973-1982). Archives nationales, Paris. http://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/Repertoire-detaille-AN-20010454.html

  • Archives et Bibliothèque du Ministère des Affaires étrangères (1720-1970). Ministère des Affaires étrangères. http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/ministry_158/archives-and-heritage_3562/index.html

  • Archives of the Aide Sociale à l’Enfance (1968-1990s). Archives départementales de la Seine Saint-Denis.

  • Archives of the painter and collector Henri Duhem (c. 1860-1940), Douai Museum of Fine Arts.

  • Photographies d’Edgar and Jules Imbert, Algérie et Maroc [in coll.] Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense [Military Archives], Ivry

 SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

  • "Avid for Ovid: Heroids and Metamorphoses in Works by Helene Cixous," forthcoming in 2011
  • “A Different take on the Biographical Phenomenon: Samuel Johnson's Status in Literary History as Explained by the Development of Literary Tourism,” forthcoming in 2011
  • "Disparues sans fantômes: Les bibliothèques de Wyndham Lewis" in Jean-Roch Bouiller, Dario Gamboni et Françoise Levaillant (ed.), Les Bibliothèques d’artistes (XX-XXIe siècles), Paris: Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne, 2010, p. 283-93
  • "Les Lettres d'Alibert à Pierre Laroque, 1926-1940," in Cotillon, Jérôme (ed.) Raphaël Alibert, Juriste engagé et homme d'influence à Vichy, Paris: Economica, 2009
  • Annotations relatives à la vie politique in T. Sarmant and S. Garçon (ed.)"Gouvernement et Haut Commandement au déclin de la IIIe République," Paris: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 2009
  • "Moreau", "Brasillach", "Maulnier", in A. Callu and P. Gillet (ed.), Lettres à Charles Maurras. Amitiés politiques, lettres autographes, 1898-1952, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 2009 http://books.google.com
  • "L’Héraldique des jeunes filles (16e-18e siècles)" in Les Femmes et l’écriture de l’histoire, Rouen : Presses universitaires de Rouen,  2009
  • “Fukuyama, ou la Chauve-Souris” and “Deux coups de théâtre: Sartre, le Nobel, et le refus de venir à Cornell, 1964-65”, in Labyrinthe, 32, June 2008
  • "Cornell and the Marshall Plan (1947-51)", in Cornell International Affairs Review, volume I, issue II, 2008, p.7-16.http://www.rso.cornell.edu/ciar/journal/
  • Pages on Jefferson in "Two Nations, one Vision of Liberty," Claire Germain ed., p. 22-25, Cornell Law School, 2007, p. 22-25 http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/WhoWeAre/upload/LawSchoolcommgift7127.pdf
  • "Les intellectuels s'intéressent-ils au patrimoine ?", Livraisons d'histoire de l'architecture, 2003, p. 129-153.
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  • "Le chartiste dans la fiction littéraire (XIXe et XXe siècles) : une figure ambiguë", in Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, vol. 159, 2001, p. 615-629

Marie-Claire Vallois

Associate Professor of French Literature

Publications

  • Fictions féminines: Mme de Staël et les voix de la sybille. Saratoga, California: ANMI Libri, 1987

Enzo Traverso

Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities

Publications

· Singular Pasts: The “I” in Historiography (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)

· Revolution: An Intellectual History (London-New York: Verso, 2021)

· The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2018; Chicago: Haymarket, 2019)

· The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right (London-New York: Verso, 2019)

· Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017)

· The European Civil War 1914-1945 (London-New York: Verso, 2016)

· The End of Jewish Modernity (London: Pluto Books, 2016)

· The Origins of Nazi Violence (New York: The New Press, 2003)

· The Jews and Germany: From the “Judeo-German Symbiosis” to the Memory of Auschwitz (Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 1995)

Thierry Torea

Senior Lecturer of French Language

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