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T. Jefferson Kline
Email: jkline@bu.edu
Office: 205
Phone: 353-6235
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M 11-12:30
W 11-12:30
R 11-12:30

T. Jefferson Kline
Associate Chair

Professor of French

Education

  • BA, Oberlin College
  • MA, Columbia University
  • PhD, Columbia University

Research

T. Jefferson Kline joined the faculty in 1979, as chair of the Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, after serving as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

His publications include André Malraux and the Metamorphosis of Death (Columbia University Press, 1973), Bertolucci's Dream Loom: A Psychoanalytic Study of Cinema (University of Massachusetts Press, 1987), I film di Bertolucci (Rome: Gremese,1992), Screening the Text: Intertexuality in New Wave French Film (Johns Hopkins Press, 1992). He has co-edited (with Bruce Sklarew and Fabien Gerard) Bertolucci Interviews (U. Mississippi Press, 1999), edited The Film and the Book (1994), and recently co-edited with Naomi Schor the posthumuous study, Decadent Subjects (Johns Hopkins, 2000) by Charles Bernheimer. He has also authored a number of articles on the French novel, French theater and the European cinema. He is currently at work on a book tentatively entitled The Cinema and Its Doubles exploring cinema's relationships to dream, hypnosis, geography, and other media. He teaches courses on modern French theater, the French novel, French existentialism, and film theory and history.

 
   
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