Two topics are offered 2014/2015. Students may take one or both for credit. Topic for Fall 2014: Rebellious Women: Engendering Texts and Films in French. Close reading of selected texts and films by major 20th-21st-century women writers and filmmakers. Attention to gender, postcolonial, and transnational cultural studies, and to the politics of form. Topic for Spring 2015: TBA.