Faculty

Madeleine Alcover

Professor Emerita Seventeenth and eighteenth century; main interest in comedy, free-thought, and enlightenment, film and film theory

Bernard Aresu

Professor Modern/Postmodern narratives, the lyrical genre, postcolonial studies, and comparative studies

Julie Fette

Assistant Professor Interdisciplinary French studies, contemporary French society and culture

Leticia Gonzales

Department Coordinator fren@rice.edu

Jean-Joseph Goux

L.H. Favrot Professor Postmodern French philosophy, aesthetic theories and socio-symbolic interpretation

Deborah Harter

Associate Professor Contemporary literary theory, 19th-century fiction, narrative poetics, comparative literature, literature and philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis

Deborah Nelson-Campbell

Professor Philology, medieval French and Occitan literature

Philip Wood

Associate Professor French and German philosophy. Aesthetic theory. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature.