Faculty
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Professor of French (1977). She specializes in French literature of the 20th century, focusing on the evolution of the modern novel, narrative and feminist theory; and in cinema studies. Her most recent research and publications are in the fields of film, particularly the reconstruction of the Vichy period in French cinema, and in comparative detective fiction. Professor Mellerski teaches in the Film Studies Minor program as well. |
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The John J. Curley '60 and Ann Conser Curley '63 Faculty Chair in Global Education, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (1979). Professor Davidson has directed the Toulouse year program and the Bologna Summer Immersion program on several occasions and is engaged in issues related to global education. Her scholarship has concentrated on French and Italian literatures, fine arts, and music of the Renaissance and 17th century. Her current research is centered on Humanism in Southern France. |
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Associate Professor of French (1987). Her scholarship has focused on 18th century French literature, particularly Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the advent of autobiography in modern culture. Her current research involves reader-oriented criticism and the use of Speech Act Theory in literary analysis. |
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Associate Professor of French (1995). His research examines the image of America in the French press in the XIXth and XXth centuries. He has been teaching French language and civilization classes (Fr 116, Fr 230, Fr 236) and senior seminars (Fr 365) on "The French press" and "France between the Wars". In addition Professor Laurent has taught a freshman seminar on "The Great War" (fall 2000). In the fall of 2002 he will be teaching another freshman seminar on "America in the eyes of the world". |
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Associate Professor of Italian (1991). His scholarship centers on the relationship between Italian and other European literatures at the end of the 19th century. Other scholarly interests include 20th century poetry, film and literary theory, and language pedagogy. |
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Assistant Professor of French (2000; 2002). Her research is in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). It focuses on the psycholinguistic factors involved in language learning, especially how input (the linguistic data that learners receive) shapes second language (L2) learners' evolving grammar. She is currently working on the role of input in the L2 acquisition of tense and aspect in the classroom and the study abroad environments. |
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Assistant Professor of French (2006). His research interests include community-based performance, improvisation, and the socially and politically engaged theatre of contemporary France. Most recently he has presented conference papers on the theatre of Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil, and on strategies for social action in the theatre of Armand Gatti. |
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Assistant Professor of Italian (2007). |
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Assistant Professor of French (2007). |
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Visiting Assistant Professor of French (2005). Her interest is bringing the Francophone world to the beginning levels of the classroom. Her specialty in second language acquisition is teaching not only how to communicate in the French language, but also in making connections and comparisons between our culture and the various communities of the Francophone world, so that the students will one day be able to use their target language globally. |
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Visiting Instructor in Italian (2007). Giuseppe Gazzola is visiting Dickinson from Yale University, where he is completing a dissertation entitled "Building the Canon: Literature as Process in the Period of Italian Unification," which investigates how national cultural identity is defined and judged at different moments of historical transition. His published work includes books on Vico Faggi's theatre and on Ugo Foscolo's writings on Petrarch, as well as articles on Petrarch, Foscolo, Sanguineti, Rossellini and feminist American poetry. His current projects, which he hopes to share with his students in the Spring's "Modern Italian Literature" class, concern the edition of Marinetti's translations from Mallarme', and of a previously unknown drama by G.A. Borgese. |
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Resident Director of the Dickinson Toulouse Center and Program (2004). |
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Her research includes the relationship of church and state in Italy as well as adaptation to cross-cultural living. She enjoys helping students prepare for a semester or year abroad in Italy as well as helping students on campus connect with students coming to study at Dickinson from the University of Bologna. |
