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UC Center Program
Faculty - Fall 2005
Faculty
Nadia MALINOVICH
PCC 127. Women in Twentieth Century France
Nadia Malinovich received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (2000) with a dissertation on Jewish identity and culture in early twentieth century France. She has taught Jewish and European history at Lehman College, CUNY; Fordham University; New York University; and Sciences-Po. She has published in and edited collections of Jewish fiction and written on race, “orientalism”, and Jewish identity in France.
Oliver FELTHAM
PCC 126. Philosophy in the Streets: May 1968 and After
Oliver Feltham is a recent Ph.D. in Philosophy from Deacon University (Melbourne) where he completed a dissertation on the thought of Foucault and Badiou. He has produced a critical edition of Badiou’s work, Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy, (London: Continuum, 2003), and is editor and contributor to Alain Badiou: de l’Ontologie à la Politique (Paris: Harmattan, forthcoming). Feltham has taught at various Paris universities and is currently Assistant Professor at American University of Paris.
Paul-André ROSENTAL
PCC 124. Society and Political Economy in Twentieth-Century France
Paul-André Rosental is currently directeur d’ études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, from where he received his Ph.D. in 1993. He has published extensively on the subject of French demography, including Les sentiers invisibles. Espace, familles et migrations dans la France du XIX e siècle, Paris, éditions de l’EHESS, 1999; and the award-winning L’intelligence démographique. Sciences et politiques des populations en France , Paris, Odile Jacob, 2003. Rosental has lectured widely, including recent visits to the University of California, Los Angeles and Irvine.
Peter CONNOR
PCC 123. The Myth of Paris (1830 to the Present)
Peter Connor received his Ph.D. in French from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. Since then he has taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, where he is Associate Professor and Chair of the French Department and Co-Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature. He is the author of Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin (Baltimore: the Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). He has translated Georges Bataille’s The Tears of Eros (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1989) and Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Inoperative Community (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991).
Stéphane DUFOIX
PCC 116. Debating French Identities
Stéphane Dufoix received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Paris I, and is Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Nanterre. A specialist on immigration and asylum, he has taught for UC Paris since 2002. The co-author of several important governmental reports, he has written two books, Politiques d'Exil: Hongrois, Polonais et Tchécoslovaques en France après 1945 (Paris: PUF, 2002); and Les diasporas (Paris: PUF, 2003), and is co-editor (with Patrick Weil) of L'esclavage, la Colonisation et après... (Paris, PUF, 2005). He is currently a research associate at the Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XXème siècle (CNRS-Paris- I).
Mariam HABIBI
PCC 115. France and European Integration
Mariam Habibi received her doctorat from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris in 2000 with a dissertation on French Diplomacy in early twentieth century Persia, published by L'Harmattan in 2004. She studied at Lancaster and London University, and has held teaching appointments at the American University of Paris, Columbia University at Reid Hall, and New York University in France.
Sarah LINFORD
PCC 125. Art on Display: The Museums of Paris
Sarah Linford recently completed a double Ph.D./thèse de doctorat at Princeton University and Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II with a dissertation on French symbolist painting and the Third Republic. She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds a post-master's degree from the University of Paris 7. She has won numerous research awards and garnered many honors, has contributed to scholarly collections of articles on modern art, has taught undergraduates at Princeton University and arts administration in Paris and has worked at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian.
Mark MEIGS
PCC 111. Histories of Paris
Mark Meigs received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990, and since 1994 has worked as Associate Professor of American History at the Institute d'Etudes Anglophones. He has published Optimism at Armaggedon, Voices of American Participants in the First World War, London and New York (New York, 1997) and several articles on the experience of American Soldiers on the European battlefields of World War I. His current research is on cross-cultural French and American experiences in the business world, on comparisons of French and American domestic service in the nineteenth century, and on the history of Paris. He has taught at UC Paris since 2002.
William BISHOP
Will Bishop received his PhD in French from the
University of California, Berkeley in December, 2003.
His dissertation addresses questions of translation in
texts by Beckett, Genet, Celan and Rimbaud. Several
sections of his dissertation will soon be published in
the journal diacritics as an article on "The Marriage
Translation and the Contexts of Common Life: From the
PACS to Benjamin and Beyond." He has taught French
language and literature classes at the University of
California, Berkeley and a course on translation at
Columbia University's program in Paris at Reid Hall.
He will teach one of the French Language Courses.
Kristen IRWIN
Kristen Irwin is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of
California, San Diego. She has a B.A. in history and philosophy from
Hillsdale College (2001), and her dissertation examines the relationship
of philosophical reason and religious faith in the thought of Pierre
Bayle, a 17th-century French skeptic. She has been a section instructor
in humanities, political science, and philosophy, and also has academic
interests in 20th century French philosophy and philosophy of religion.
She will be the section instructor for the Philosophy in
the Streets course.
Veronica Kirk-Clausen
Veronica is a graduate student in the department of
Literature at UCSC, specializing in nineteenth and
twentieth century American literature. Her dissertation
examines the translations (of French texts into English)
and the international travel of American 'regionalist'
writers.
She will be the section instructor for The Myth of Paris in Literature course.
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés is a graduate student in History at the University of California at Berkeley,
specializing in eighteenth-century French cultural history. His dissertation explores
the various forms of sociability that flourished in cafés and how they contributed to
the cultural and intellectual milieu of the French Enlightenment. He will be a tutor
for France and European Integration.
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