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UC Center Program
Faculty - Spring 2006
Faculty
Christian-Marc BOSSENO
PCC 120. Paris on Film
City of Lights since 1985
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 Yannick Déhée), Dictionnaire du Cinéma Populaire Français (Paris, 2004). 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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Yves WINTER
Yves Winter is a graduate student in the Rhetoric department at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in political theory and continental philosophy. His dissertation examines the relation between politics and violence in the works of Niccolò Machiavelli and Karl Marx. He is section instructor for the Histories of Paris course.
Carole VIERS
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 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 is the section instructor for the Paris on Film course.
Leigh FULLMER
Leigh Fullmer is a PhD candidate in the department of
Literature at UC Santa Cruz, specializing in critical
theory, French Decadent literature, and science fiction.
Her dissertation examines the political afterlives of
decadence and the automaton in late 20th century US and
British science fiction. She will be the section
instructor for the Paris in Literature course.
David SELBY
David Selby is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California at San Diego. His areas of research include the history of political though, comparative politics, state-building, political philosophy and political theory. In his dissertation he seeks to recast Alexis de Tocqueville's place in the history of political thought by articulating the philosophical and religious influence of Jansenism in his life and works. He will be the section
instructor for the Debating Identities course.
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