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UC Center Program
Faculty - Fall 2006
Faculty
William BISHOP
PCC 128. Theater in France
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 recently been at work on the translation of books by the Moroccan-born writer, Rachid O; a chapter on Rachid O’s writing will be a part of his next project, “The Other Ambassadors: Figures Abroad after Henry James.” He has taught French language and literature classes at the University of California, Berkeley, at the UC center program, and a course on translation at Columbia University's program in Paris at Reid Hall.
Peter CONNOR
PCC 123. Paris in Literature
Literature from 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
French Society and Politics
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).
Pierre GIRARD
PCC 117. The Political History of France
Pierre Girard holds a PhD from the Institute d’Etudes Poliques de Paris (Sciences Po) where he currently teaches contemporary history and politics in the program for Foreign students. He also teaches a yearly seminar for the Masters’ program of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales de Paris. He is the co-author of France since 1800. Squaring the Hexagon (Oxford University Press, 2003). He also wrote two chapters for the collective work Jean Zay et la Gauche Radicale (2004). He is a specialist of the political history of France and is currently working on the constitutional projects of the French resistance during the Second World War.
Sarah LINFORD
PCC 125. Art On Display
The Museums of Paris
Sarah Linford has taught modern and contemporary art history and art administration in France and the United States. In her Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton University and the Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, as at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian, she has worked primarily on late nineteenth and early twentieth century painting. She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Trinity College Dublin, the University of California at Berkeley and holds a post-master's degree from the University of Paris 7. She has won numerous research awards and honors, contributed to scholarly collections of articles on French art and to a journal of contemporary art criticism.
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.
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.
Sylvie Clémence
Trevor Merrill
Brice Tabeling
Carole Viers is a graduate student in the Comparative Literature department at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in avant-garde French and Italian literatures of the 20th century. Her dissertation investigates the relationship of translation and the use of literary constraints in novelistic production in the works of Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino and Harry Mathews, writers involved in the Parisian literary group the Oulipo. She will teach one of the French Language Courses.
Tim Wolcott is a graduate student in the Education department at
the
University of California, Berkeley, specializing in second language acquisition, continental social theory, and discourse analysis. His
dissertation reports on an ethnographic study of student narratives of
acculturation and second language learning in a study abroad context. He
is section instructor for the Debating French Identities course.
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