FACULTY
Mary Ellen Birkett
Professor
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Wright 215 |
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585-3351 |
Mary Ellen Birkett received her A.B. from Smith College and her Ph.D. from Yale University. A specialist in French literature and culture of the early 19th century, she is the co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Duras's Ourika; co-editor of Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Ancient and Modern Worlds; author of Lamartine and the Poetics of Landscape and of chapters in Cabeen's Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Relire Lamartine Aujourd'hui, Approaches to Teaching Stendhal's The Red and The Black and Approaches to Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of the Solitary Walker. She has contributed numerous entries to The Romantic Movement: A Selected and Critical Bibliography and has written for journals such as French Colonial History, The French Review, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Romance Notes, Romance Quarterly and Romantisme.
Professor Birkett teaches French literature and culture of Romantic period, the Enlightenment, Classical era, Renaissance, and Middle Ages. She has an additional interest in contemporary French detective fiction, which she emphasizes when teaching Colloquia in French Studies.
She directed the Smith Junior Year Abroad Program in Paris in 1985-86 and the Smith Junior Year Abroad in Geneva in 1987-88, 1992-94, 1997-98.
