Expertise

Research areas

  • The twentieth-century French and francophone novel in sociocultural context
  • Narrative dynamics
  • Reading practices

My current work studies dynamics of display across a range of novels: from canonical works of the Hexagon, to African colonial and post-colonial narratives, to detective fictions.


Expertise:

  • 20th Century
  • France
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Literature
Communities
European Studies, Italian, French
Degrees
PhD, Yale University, French, 1986
BA, Smith College, French Literature, 1978
Keywords
french language or literature italian language or literature