Faculty

Name	Interests	Contact	Office Hours	Appointment
Cécile Alduy	French poetry and poetics, Renaissance literature, contemporary poetry, concepts of self and nation, Early Modern, Literature and Medicine, Renaissance Body	110 Pigott Hall alduy@stanford.edu	OSP Paris Autumn 2009 - contact by e-mail	Assistant Professor
Jean-Marie Apostolidès	Classical French literature (17th and 18th centuries); Avant-garde artistic movements: Dada, surrealism, situationist international; iconomie, literary theory and Francophone literature	Pigott Hall, Rm 106 650 723 4460 aposto@stanford.edu	M 12:00-1:00	Professor
Marc Bertrand	19th and 20th century Parisian culture; contemporary novel and film	134 Pigott Hall 650 723 4183 bertrand@stanford.edu	By appointment only	Professor
Jean-Pierre Dupuy	Cultural theory; social and political philosophy, the cognitive sciences, the epistemology of the social sciences, and the relationship of current critical theory to logical and scientific thinking. Professor by courtesy of Political Science	111 Pigott Hall 650 723 4713 jpdupuy@stanford.edu	By appointment only	Professor
Dan Edelstein	The French Revolution and the Terror; the Enlightenment; early-modern political thought; the revolutionary tradition; political myths.	102 Pigott Hall 650 724 9881 danedels@stanford.edu	W 10:00-12:00	Assistant Professor
Marisa Galvez	Medieval French literature and culture; the troubadours; vernacular poetics; the intersection of performance and literary cultures; the critical history of medieval studies as a discipline	134 Pigott Hall 650 723 1918 mgalvez@stanford.edu	T 1:00-3:00 and by appointment	Assistant Professor
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht	Medieval "literature" and culture; French and European Enlightenment; 19th century novel; 19th century philosophy; 20th century philosophy,media and popular culture	112 Pigott Hall 650 723 2904 sepp@stanford.edu	On leave 2009-10	Professor
Robert Harrison	The Italian Lyric; Dante; Renaissance Humanism; Michelangelo; Vico and the Baroque; Phenomenology; Literary Theory; Pirandello	121 Pigott Hall 650 723 4204 harrison@stanford.edu	M-W 1:30-3:00 (please make an appointment)	Professor and Department Chair
Joshua Landy	Philosophical literature (Proust, Beckett); literary philosophy (Plato, Montaigne); philosophy of literature (Nietzsche, ethical criticism, narrative theories of selfhood); Symbolist poetry (Mallarmé); the first-person novel	104 Pigott Hall 650 723 4914 landy@stanford.edu	W 1:00-3:00	Associate Professor
Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi	20th-century French literature and Francophone literature from Africa and the Caribbean. Her research interests include Contacts of Cultures, Travel writing, history and memory in literature.	107 Pigott Hall 650 723 1947 boyi@stanford.edu	M-W 2:00-4:00	Professor
Jeffrey Schnapp	12th-13th century Romance literatures; Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch; the material history of literature from antiquity to the present; literature, architecture, and the visual arts during Italy’s fascist decades; Franco-Italian cultural relations 1800-1970; the cultural history of modern materials; the cultural history of graphics and industrial design; digital iterations of historical scholarship; micro-history/macro-history hybridization	103 Pigott Hall 650 924 0232 schnapp@stanford.edu	On leave 2009-10	Professor
Michel Serres	Philosophy, history of ideas and literature	111 Pigott Hall	By appointment only	Professor
Carolyn Springer	19th century Italian literature and cultural history; lyric poetry; gender studies; Renaissance visual culture; history of landscape	135 Pigott Hall 650 723 1351 springer@stanford.edu	TH 2:00-4:00	Associate Professor
Laura Wittman	19^th- and 20^th-century Italian and French literature, culture, and cinema. Connections between religion, philosophy, and literature, especially as regards secularization and new interest in religion in the modern West. Literary theory and philosophy. Poetry and poetics. Women mystics, women writers and the sacred. Nietzsche; Valéry; d’Annunzio; the French and Italian experimental novels; Italian Hermetic poetry.	101 Pigott Hall 650 725 5243 lwittman@stanford.edu	T-TH 2:15-3:00 or by appointment	Assistant Professor