Faculty & Staff
The department's faculty members include professors with research and teaching interests in French and Francophone literature and culture of all periods, as well as landscape studies, medieval studies, film studies, comparative literature and women's studies.
Anouk Alquier
Lecturer
Alfred Babo
Visiting Lecturer
Mary Ellen Birkett
Professor
Benjamin Capellari
Visiting Lecturer, École Normale Supérieure
Eglal Doss-Quinby
Professor & Chair of the Department
Dawn Fulton
Associate Professor
Martine Gantrel
Professor
Jonathan Gosnell
Associate Professor
Ann Leone
Professor
Christiane Métral
Lecturer
Janie Vanpée
Professor
Hélène Visentin
Associate Professor
Conversation Section Leader
Chloé Pulice
Exchange student from Université de Paris VII
Administrative Assistant
Jennifer Blackburn
jblackbu@smith.edu
Exchange Students
Chloé Pulice
Exchange student from Université de Paris VII
Pauline Pelsy-Johann
Exchange Student from Université de Paris IV
Scheduled Leaves of Absence for the Faculty
Fall 2011: Martine Gantrel
Fall 2011: Jonathan Gosnell
Spring 2012: Ann Leone
Emeriti
David Ball
Professor Emeritus
Marie-José Delage
Professor Emerita
Andrée Demay
Professor Emerita
Lawrence Joseph
Professor Emeritus
Josephine Ott
Professor Emerita
Denise Rochat
Professor Emerita
James Sacré
Doris Silbert Professor Emeritus in the Humanities,
French Studies
Patricia Weed
Professor Emerita
Faculty in Related Fields
Ernest Benz
Associate Professor of History
Leonard Berkman
Anne Hesseltine Hoyt Professor of Theatre
Peter Bloom
Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities (Music)
Anna Botta
Professor of Italian Language & Literature and of Comparative Literature
Darcy Buerkle
Assistant Professor of History
Brigitte Buettner
Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Professor of Art History
Rick Fantasia
Professor of Sociology
Luc Gilleman
Associate Professor of English Language & Literature
Kiki Gounaridou
Associate Professor of Theatre
Ann R. Jones
Esther Cloudman Dunn Professor of Comparative Literature
Laura Kalba
Assistant Professor of Art
Sabina Knight
Associate Professor of Chinese and of Comparative Literature
John Moore
Professor of Art History
Catharine Newbury
Professor of Government
David Newbury
Gwendolen Carter Professor of History
Gregory White
Professor of Government
