Faculty

Margaret Cohen
Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization
Director, Center for the Study of the Novel

Professor of French
Professor of Comparative Literature

*Professor Cohen is on sabbatical
during the 2007-08 academic year*

Her publications include Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) and The Sentimental Education of the Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), that was awarded the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione prize in French and Francophone literature. In addition, Margaret Cohen coedited two collections of scholarship on the European novel: The Literary Channel: The Inter-National Invention of the Novel with Carolyn Dever Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), and Spectacles of Realism: Body, Gender, Genre with Christopher Prendergast (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995). She edited and translated Sophie Cottin's best-selling novel of 1799, Claire d'Albe (New York: Modern Language Association, 2003), and has edited a new critical edition of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary that appeared with W.W. Norton in 2004. Her current research interests involve rethinking the literature and culture of modernity from the vantage point of its waterways. A part of that project is a book she is now writing concerning how the history and representation of global ocean travel informed the development of the modern novel.  Its working title is The Adventure of the Sea.

More information about the Center for the Study of the Novel is available at

http://multi.stanford.edu

Current Courses

FRENGEN 357 Surrealism to structuralism
FRENGEN 231 Space & the Modern Sublime (Winter)

Recent courses

FRENGEN 155 Women writers and the Rise of the Novel in France
FRENGEN 255 Walter Benjamin and Paris
FRENGEN 352 The Romance of the Sea
FRENGEN 353 Realism in France, 1830-34
FRENGEN 356 (Same as COMPLIT 322A). Theories of the Novel

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