2 year degree specialized in Business and Marketing, University of Cergy Pontoise. Licence of Sociology, University Paris-Sorbonne

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Licence ès Lettres, Maîtrise ès Lettres, Université du Maine, Le Mans. Teaching assistant, Sheffield University. (1987– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of French.

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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. Guggenheim Fellowship (1999). Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Simon’s Rock College of Bard. (1998– ) Bard Center Fellow and Visiting Professor of French.

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B.A., Bard College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University 2005. Fulbright Fellowship, France (1993–94). (1998– ) Assistant Professor of History.

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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– ) Edith C. Blum Professor of Art History.

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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.

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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 (University of Chicago Press, 2005) which was the recipient of the 2006 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Prize for French and Francophone Studies, The Interrogation of Joan of Arc (1999), and numerous articles on Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan, and medieval heretics and inquisitors. (1993– ) Associate Professor of Literature.

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B.A., Concordia University, Montreal; M.A., French literature, McGill University; Ph.D. in French, Princeton University. Author of La Terreur à l'uvre. Théorie, poétique et éthique chez Jean Paulhan (Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2007). Co-edited Figures et frictions. La littérature au contact du visuel, Études Françaises, volume 42, number 2, 2006 and Accessoires. La littérature à l'épreuve du dérisoire, Nota Bene, 2003. Articles and reviews on Jean Paulhan, Remy de Gourmont, Georges Perros, Chris Marker. Eric Trudel is co-director of GLOBE Revue internationale d'études québécoises. (2002– ) Assistant Professor of French.

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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. Codirector, First-Year Seminar (2007 ). (1997 ) Professor of French and Comparative Literature.

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