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Ed Benson

Professor Emeritus of French

Education

BA Princeton U, 1963; Ph.D. Brown U, 1971

Areas of Expertise

Film & XVI

Contact Information

Office/Hours:
Phone: 860-486-3314
E-mail: ed.benson@uconn.edu
Website

Bio:

Ed Benson earned a Ph.D from Brown University in 1971, then taught at high schools in Providence, at Central Missouri State University and at the Universities of Rhode Island and New Mexico, before coming to UConn in 1998. He wrote Money and Magic in Montaigne in 1995, and many articles on sixteenth-century literature as well as French cinema; his most recent article was “The Screen of History in Clément’s Forbidden Games.” He is currently an assistant editor for literature of the French Review, and the chair of the Executive Committee on the Teaching of Language of the Modern Language Association.