French

2011-12 General Catalog

Language Program
218 Cowell College
(831) 459-2054
http://language.ucsc.edu

Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Carla Freccero (Literature)
Renaissance studies, French and Italian language and literature, early modern studies, postcolonial theories and literature, contemporary feminist theories and politics, queer theory, U.S. popular culture

Pascale Gaitet, Emerita (Literature)
Nineteenth- and 20th-century French literature, sociolinguistics, political history, Celine, Genet

Sharon Kinoshita (Literature)
Intercultural relations in 12th- and 13th-century literature, Mediterranean studies, globalism, postcolonial theory, world literature and cultural studies

Richard Terdiman (Literature)
Nineteenth- and 20th-century French and European literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, contemporary critical theory, cultural globalization

Lecturer

Angela Elsey
Francophonie, 19th-century French history and civilization, French and Francophone cinema

Greta Hutchison
Foreign language pedagogy, second language acquisition, 20th-century French history and civilization, medieval French literature, 19th-century literature and art

Nora Megharbi
Second and foreign language acquisition, applied linguistics, pedagogical grammar, technology and multimedia, sociolinguistics, TA training, course supervision, business French, scientific French, francophone literature, translation

Revised: 8/13/12