French

Degrees Offered: M.A.
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The Department of Romance Languages offers the Master of Arts degree in French language and literature. Students take ten upper-level courses in French literature in preparation for a two-part general examination that includes essay questions and an explication de texte. The program may be completed in one academic year combined with a summer.

A distinguishing feature of this small program is the close attention students receive from their professors, including extra sessions with individual faculty members and special research projects in the context of their literature courses. Preference is given to applicants with a strong undergraduate major in French.

FACULTY/SPECIALTY

Gérard Gasarian
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French poetry

Brigitte Lane
Ph.D., Harvard University
French cultural studies, contemporary French literature

Isabelle H. Naginski
Ph.D., Columbia University
Nineteenth-century French prose, Franco-Russian literary relations, women writers

Vincent J. Pollina
Ph.D., Yale University
Medieval and Renaissance French and Italian literature

Claire Schub
Ph.D., Princeton University
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature

Paulette Anne Smith
Ph.D., Harvard University
Francophone African and Caribbean literature

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