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French
Department of Romance Studies' Lecturers in French "It was Tremont Street, it was France." Henry James may have gotten it right when he suggested, at the turning point of his most revered novel, that there was a special affinity between Boston and the essence of France. The French section of Boston University, a community of internationally published scholars, has historically been a place where the Jamesian vision has come true. Roger Shattuck, who taught for years in the section, won a National Book Award for his work on Proust. (The first Shattuck Memorial Lecture was delivered by the eminent philosopher Alain Finkielkraut.) Jeffrey Mehlman's writings have been at the forefront of the naturalization in English of French thought in its structuralist and post-structuralist phases. T. Jefferson Kline, the author of a highly regarded book on Malraux, has done important work on film and literature. Dorothy Kelly (on the Paris known as the "capital of the nineteenth century") and Elizabeth Goldsmith (on the other century of French cultural hegemony, the seventeenth) have brought issues of gender to bear with telling results. Susan Jackson, our expert in the eighteenth century, has published widely in the field. Our medievalist, Irit Kleiman, has written provocatively on the theme of betrayal in the French Middle Ages. Finally, for all the section's commitment to the historical significance of a major culture of the West, we are happy to affirm our interest in the examination of its future byways: prize-winning poet Rosanna Warren brings a poet's sensibility to bear on questions of French verse and Odile Cazenave has pioneered in the charting of recent Francophone (post-colonial) literature. Carol Neidle, Professor of French and Linguistics, offers courses on French phonetics and syntax. |
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