People

Janet Beizer

beizer@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French)

C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France

Academic Degrees: B.A. in French, summa cum laude, Cornell University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph. D. in French with Secondary Field in Comparative Literature, Yale University. Non-Degree Studies: École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and Université de Grenoble. Janet...

Verena Conley

vconley@fas.harvard.edu

Emerita

Visiting Research Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures

Research Interests: Cultural Theory; Politics and Aesthetics; Ecology and Technology; Contemporary Fiction and Film Academic Degrees: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison Books: Nancy Now, Ed. With Irving Goh (forthcoming 2013). Spatial Ecologies...

Tom Conley

tconley@fas.harvard.edu

Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French) and of Visual and Environmental Studies

Academic Degrees: B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Research Interests: Early Modern French Literature; Film and Media Studies; Intersection of Literature and Graphic Imagination. Tom Conley studies...

Luis Fernández Cifuentes

cifuent@fas.harvard.edu

Emeritus

Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus Spanish

Research Interests: 18 th , 19 th and 20 th- century Literature in Spanish; Literary History; Travel Literature; Literature and Economics; Cities Academic Degrees: A.B., Universidad Complutense, Madrid; Ph.D, Princeton University

Mary Gaylord

mgaylord@fas.harvard.edu

Emerita

Sosland Family Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish)

Research Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Latin American Colonial Literature; Hispanic Poetry; Poetics; Literary Theory; History and the Novel

Virginie Greene

vgreene@fas.harvard.edu

Emerita

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French)

Virginie Greene is a Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, at Harvard University. She is a specialist of medieval literature, with strong interests in history and philosophy, and in Proust and his times. She has...

Alice Jardine

jardine@fas.harvard.edu

Emerita

Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Research Interests: 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Literature; Feminist Theory; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Culture, Arts, and Politics Academic Degrees: A.B., Ohio State University; A.M., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University Alice...

Françoise Lionnet

flionnet@fas.harvard.edu

Emerita

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, of Comparative Literature, and of African and African American Studies in Residence

Research Interests: Indian Ocean literary, cultural, and historical studies in relation to Atlantic and Caribbean Studies, colonialism, focus on 18th to 21st century writers.

Christie McDonald

cmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu

Emerita

Smith Professor of French Language and Literature and of Comparative Literature

Research Interests: 18th- and 20th-Century French Literature; Literary theory and Cultural Studies; Feminism; Questions of Change in Thought Academic degrees: B.A., Mount Holyoke College; Ph.D., Yale University Recently by Christie McDonald: Images of...

Lino Pertile

Emeritus

Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Italian)

Research Interests: Dante & the Latin Middle Ages; Bembo & the 'question della lingua"; Renaissance Literature in France & Italy; Foscolo & Leopardi; Contemporary Italian Novel

Diana Sorensen

sorensen@fas.harvard.edu

Emerita

James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

Academic Degrees: B.A. in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Studies; History and Memory Diana Sorensen is James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance...