Denise Rochat
A native of the French-speaking part of Switzerland and a member of the French Studies Department since
1981, Denise Rochat earned her Ph.D. from Brown University.
Her research interests and
publications are in the fields of French, French
Swiss and Québecois
literatures (novels, short stories and poetry). Her
publications include articles on René Char, Gustave Roud, Anne Hébert,
Corinna Bille, Philippe Jaccottet and Monique Proulx.
She is also the author of Contrastes, a reference grammar book published in 2005 by Prentice Hall. Her main teaching fields are nineteenth-
and twentieth-century French and francophone literatures,
as well as French
language at all levels. She has served four times
as director of Smith Junior Year Abroad programs,
twice in Geneva (1989-1990, and 1994-1995) and twice in Paris (2000-2001 and 2004-2005).
E-mail: drochat@smith.edu
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