Faculty

Licence ès Lettres, Maîtrise ès Lettres, Université du Maine, Le Mans. Teaching assistant, Sheffield University. (1987– )

Contact:
Odile S. Chilton
E-mail: ochilton@bard.edu

A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Author, Difficulty as an Aesthetic Principle (Tübingen, 1993); Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art (Cornell University Press, 2005). Recent articles include “Difficulty,” Encyclopedia of Aesthetics; “Of Degenerates, Criminals, and Literary Offenders” and “The Importance of Being Lazy,” Cabinet; “Maghreb and Melancholy,” Research in Francophone Literature; “Monomanie à deux,” Etudes Françaises. Awards include Lurcy Fellowship; Council on Research and Faculty Development Grant, Columbia University; Sheldon Fellowship, Whiting Fellowship, Harvard University; Bard Research Grant. Chair, Literature program. (1997– )

Website: http://french.bard.edu/faculty/vanzuylen.shtml

Contact:
Marina van Zuylen
E-mail: vanzuyle@bard.edu

B.A., Concordia University, Montreal; M.A., French literature, McGill University; Ph.D. in Romance languages, Princeton University. Author, La terreur à l’oeuvre: Théorie, poétique et éthique chez Jean Paulhan (Paris, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, coll. “L’imaginaire du texte,” 2007). Coeditor, Jean Paulhan on Poetry and Politics (U. of Illinois Press, 2008); coeditor, Figures et Frictions: La littérature au contact du visuel (Etudes Françaises, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2006) and Accessoire: La Littérature à l’épreuve du dérisoire (Québec, Nota Bene, 2003). Articles on Jean Paulhan, Pierre Alferi, Chris Marker, George Perros, Remy de Gourmont.

Contact:
Eric Trudel
E-mail: trudel@bard.edu

A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Taught at University of California, Berkeley (1986–91, 1992–93). Author of Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature (2005), The Interrogation of Joan of Arc (1999), and numerous articles on Joan of Arc, Christine de Pisan, and medieval heretics and inquisitors. (1993– )

Contact:
Karen Sullivan
E-mail: sullivan@bard.edu

Ph.D., University of Cincinnati; L.L., Sorbonne, Paris. Postdoctoral research fellow, Columbia University, Syracuse University. Guest professor, New School University and universities of Belgrade, Cologne, Singapore, and Aix-en-Provence. Recipient of awards from New York Council for the Humanities, New School University. Publications: Constant Factors in Translation; Sound and Structure of English; Rilke’s Duino Elegies; Bertolt Brecht in Mandarin; Le Bateau Sobre;numerous reviews, biographies, translations. (1962–2003) Professor Emeritus of Languages and Literature.

Contact:
Justus Rosenberg
E-mail: rosenber@bard.edu

B.A., Seton Hill University; Ph.D., Cornell University. Recipient, National Endowment for the Humanities Study Grant (1992); American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1978–79); NEH Fellowship in Residence for College Teachers, Harvard (1976–77); numerous summer research grants. Publications include articles in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia; The Dictionary of Art; Gesta; The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art; Application of Science in Examination of Works of Art;National Endowment for the Humanities Institute Resource Book; Studies in Medieval Culture. (1971– )

Website: http://arthistory.bard.edu/faculty/french.shtml

Contact:
Jean M. French
E-mail: french@bard.edu

B.A., City College of New York; Diploma in the history and philosophy of science (with distinction) and D.Phil., Oxford University. Postdoctoral grants: American Council of Learned Societies; American Philosophical Society; Fulbright Foundation; National Science Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities. Author of Royal Funding of the Parisian Academy of Sciences during the 1690s and A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Early Parisian Academy of Sciences, as well as articles and reviews. (1980– )

Contact:
Alice Stroup
E-mail: stroup@bard.edu

B.A., Bard College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University. Fulbright Fellowship, France (1993–94). (1998– )

Contact:
Tabetha Ewing
E-mail: ewing@bard.edu

B.A., Princeton University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., New York University. Recipient, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2006), W. B. H. Dowse Fellowship (2003–04), Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship (2003–04, 2004–05). Specialization in early modern Atlantic world history, colonial America, slavery, and empire. (2006– )

B.A., Reed College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Fellowships and awards: Stanley Hoffman Prize, Joan B. Kroc Institute Visiting Fellowship, Mark Rozance Memorial Dissertation Award, Doreen B. Townsend Center Fellowship, SSRC-MacArthur, Fulbright (declined), many others. Papers presented at conferences of American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Council of European Studies. Invited lectures at New York University Center for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, Université du Québec à Montréal, Institut d’études politiques (Paris), CSO-CNRS. Recent publications include articles in French Politics, European Journal of Social Theory, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of European Area Studies. (2002– )

Contact:
Elaine Renee Thomas
E-mail: ethomas@bard.edu

B.S., Oberlin College; M.S., Rutgers University; Ph.D., University of Strasbourg, France, and University of Montpellier, France. Former dean of academic affairs and chair, Chemistry Department, University of Brazzaville, Congo. Author of four novels and one collection of short stories. Former president of Congolese chapter of PEN; president, National Association of Congolese Writers; director of Théâtre de l’Eclair in Brazzaville. De Carle Distinguished Lecturer, University of Otago, New Zealand (2004). Guggenheim Fellowship (1999)