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French Faculty
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Ed Benson
Professor Emeritus of French
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.
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Anne Berthelot
Professor of French
An “agrégée des lettres” and a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Anne Berthelot is now professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut. Following her dissertation for the French “Doctorat d’Etat” on the writer in 13th century French literature, she has written numerous books and articles on Medieval literature, focusing especially on the Arthurian legend with a comparatist approach. She is part of the team who is making the so-called Lancelot-Grail Cycle accessible to a large audience in the prestigious series of “La Pléiade” (Gallimard). Her most recent book is a synthetic presentation of the Arthurian legend for the Editions du Chêne, La Légende du roi Arthur (Fall 2004), which has now been translated into German. She is working on a book-length study of the enunciation problems in the Roman de Perceforest, and at the same time is preparing an edition of a little-known Arthurian romance that may be considered as the source for the Perceforest, the Roman des fils du roi Constant.
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Roger Célestin
Professor of French; Head of French Programs; Co-Chair of French and Francophone Studies programs
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Eliane DalMolin
Professor of French; Co-Chair of French and Francophone Studies programs
Professor DalMolin is the author of "Cutting the Body: Representing Woman in Baudelaire’s Poetry, Truffaut’s Cinema and Freud’s Psychoanalysis." Published in the series “The Body In Theory” at Michigan University Press, 2000. She recently published a cultural history
of France "France 1851 to the Present - Universalism in Crisis" with Palgrave, 2007. She also coedited "Beyond French Feminism. Debates on Women, Politics and Culture in France. 1980-2001." Palgrave, 2003. She is
currently working on a book on Francophone Louisiana. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Editor in Chief, "Contemporary French and
Francophone Studies"(Formerly: "Sites"), with Routledge.
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Florence Marsal
Assistant Professor in Residence
Florence Marsal earned a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2004. Her dissertation, now a book manuscript, which will be published by Paradigme, studies the various ways in which Jacques Roubaud, a contemporary French author, borrows the technique of narrative interlacing from 13th Century Arthurian prose romances, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the memory process in his pseudo-autobiography. She has written numerous articles in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (formerly known as Sites), L’Esplumeoir, as well as L’Harmattan publishing house, and Foreign Language Annals.
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Lucy S. McNeece
Associate Professor of French
Lucy Stone McNeece is co-Chair of the Program in Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies and Head of the Mideast Studies Center at UConn. She received her PhD from Harvard in 1985 in Romance Literatures. She teaches courses in French and English on the literatures of the Caribbean, Africa, the Maghreb and the Middle East, as well courses in Theater, Film, Film theory and Postcolonial theory. She received and American Institute of Maghreb Studies grant, the Provost’s Large Grant and a Fulbright Research Grant for work in North Africa. She has published on Caribbean, African and North African writers as well as writers of the Near East. Her current research concerns the differing relation between signs and images across cultural boundaries and the impact of ancient traditions upon contemporary authors of the Mediterranean and Arabo-muslim world.
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