French

2017-18 General Catalog

Languages and Applied Linguistics
218 Cowell College
(831) 459-2054
http://language.ucsc.edu

Program Statement | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Carla Freccero (Literature, History of Consciousness, Feminist Studies)
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; posthumanism; animal studies

Pascale Gaitet, Emerita (Literature)

Sharon Kinoshita (Literature)
Mediterranean studies; medieval francophone and Mediterranean literature; literature, translation, and empire; postcolonial and globalization theory; Marco Polo; world literature and cultural studies

Richard Terdiman, Emeritus

Assistant Professor

Bryan Donaldson
Word order variation in second-language French, medieval French and medieval Occitan through the lens of information structure, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics

Lecturer

Renée Cailloux
French culture and society, French literature (19th and 20th centuries), French fantastic literature (19th and 20th centuries), French fantastic literature (19th century), business French, Francophonie, stylistics

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

Revised: 09/01/17