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UC Center Program
Faculty - Spring 2005
Faculty
Edward Thomas COSTELLO
 PCC 111. Paris as History
Ed Costello received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1975, and since the late 1970s has been living and teaching In Paris, where he is currently director of several study abroad programs. He has taught a range of courses on nineteenth and twentieth century French art and literature as well as course in French civilization and cultural studies. In recent years, he has developed extensive teaching materials on the city of Paris, drawing on his interests in architecture, painting and literature, as well as research in the social sciences
Mariam HABIBI RAHNEMA
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.
Prof. Laure BLEVIS
PCC 116. French Society and Politics
Laure Blévis received her doctorat d'état in 2004 from the Institut d'Etude Politique d'Aix-en-Provence, having studied at the Université de Paris X Nanterre, The London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Her dissertation, "Citizenship and Nationality in Colonial Algeria, 1865-1947," is an historical sociology of Algerian colonial law, focusing on the production of citizenship norms within the colonial system and on the uses of the law by different historical actors. She has taught political science and political sociology at IEP Aix-en-Provence, and has participated widely in colloquia and conferences on the topics of nationality and citizenship in contemporary France. Her recent publications include "La citoyenneté française au miroir de la colonisation : étude des demandes de naturalisation des 'sujets français' en Algérie coloniale", Genèses, dossier "Sujets d'Empire", 53; and "De la cause du droit à la cause anticoloniale. Les interventions de la Ligue des Droits de l'Homme en faveur des "indigènes" algériens pendant l'entre-deux-guerres", Politix, dossier "La cause du droit", n°62.
Christian-Marc BOSSENO
PCC 120. Paris Through Film
Christian-Marc Bosséno received his doctorate from the University
of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1995, with a dissertation on the visual
culture of Rome during the French Revolution. He is currently
professor of history and cinema at the University of Paris
I. The author of countless articles and several books, he
writes regularly on Italian and French history during the
revolutionary period, and on the French cinema. His most recent
work on film includes La Prochaine séance (Paris, 1996)
and most recently (with Fabrice Montebello), Histoire du
cinéma en France (Paris, 2003). He is co-founder of several
film studies reviews, including Vertigo, and a regular
contributor to newspapers and magazines including Le Monde,
Les Cahiers du cinéma, and Les Inrockuptibles.
Alison RICE
PCC 123. Paris as Literature
Alison Rice received her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies from UCLA in 2003. She also holds a post-master's degree in French literature from the University of Paris 7. She has taught a number of courses in French language, culture, and literature, including "Mapping the Mother: A Multicultural Literary Approach" at UCLA and courses in cultural studies and literature for USC abroad. Among her recent publications are an interview with Julia Kristeva ("Julia Kristeva: An Interview on Forgiveness with Alison Rice." Introduction, Transcription of Interview, English Translation. Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA), Volume 117, number 2 (March 2002): 278-295) and an essay on Assia Djebar that received the Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship ("The Improper Name: Ownership and Authorship in the Literary Production of Assia Djebar." Assia Djebar: Studien zur Literatur und Geschichte des Maghreb. Ed. Ernstpeter Ruhe (Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2001): 49-77). Alison Rice is a Chateaubriand Fellow for the 2004-2005 academic year in Paris.
- Brigitte Jelen, UCI History, Tutor for French Society and
Politics
- Armando Manalo, UCB Comp Lit, Assistant to the SCD
- Laura Robinson, UCLA Sociology, Language instructor
- Amy Marczewski, UCLA French, Language instructor
- Grace Phelan, UCSC History, Tutor for Histories of Paris
- Brice Tabling , Language instructor
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