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| Our Faculty Click on a name if you wish to send someone an e-mail. Click on a title/job description to go to that person's web page (if available). Director of the Undergraduate Program in French and Italian
Co-director, LSU in Paris 2000
19th and 20th century French and Italian literatures; cinema; semiotics
Ross Chambers Doctorat de l'Université
de Grenoble
Loiterature (University of Nebraska Press, 1999)
Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author (University
of Michigan Press, 1998)
Room for Maneuver (University of Chicago Press, 1991)
Story and Situation (University of Minnesota Press, 1984)
Ph.D., 1996, University of Virginia
Renaissance and Early Modern Literature and Culture
Translation, Poetics and Theory
Comparative Literature
Editor,
Exquisite Corpse
Creative writing, poetry, fiction, essay
Ph.D., Harvard University
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Philosophical texts as literature
Subterranean environments in literature
Satire and Joke books
Aphorisms and wisdom literature
Academic conference management as an expressive genre
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern
Era, Editor
The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, Co-editor
President
of the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
President
of the Delta Chapter of the Alexander von Humboldt Alumni Association
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University (1975)
Novel traditions in the Americas
Comparative Epic
Literary
Criticism
Scientific
paradigms and literature
Ph.D., Classical Studies, University of Michigan (1974)
Acting Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1988-1989,
Summer 1992, Summer 1994
Acting Director, Program in Comparative Literature, 1989-1994
Honors
College planning
Head
of Classics section in Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
1989-1994
Parliamentarian,
University Faculty Senate, 1986-1987
Latin
and Greek languages and literatures
Classical
epic and epistolography
The
Colors of the Aenied (1992), "The Gate of Ivory and the Threshold
of Apollo," Classsica et Mediaevalia 37 (1986) 145-160
Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo
Medieval English and continental literature
History and theory of criticism
Modern critical theory
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Medieval and Renaissance music and music theory
Music and literature
J. Jefferson Humphries Ph.D., Yale University (1981)
College tenure and promotion committee, 1994-96
Director of Graduate Studies in French, 1985-90
Associate Chair in the Department of French and Italian, 1993-95
Executive Committee, Program in Comparative Literature
East-west comparative studies; Buddhism and literary theory
French and American literature
Caribbean literature; Japan studies
The Puritan and the Cynic: Moralists and Theorists in America and
France (1987)
"Images of the Floating World: the Idea of Japan,"Antioch Review
(Fall 1995)
Ph.D., Columbia University (1988)
Associate Chair of Department of French and Italian, 1995-
Women's and Gender Studies Coordinating Committee, 1991-94
17th-18th century French literature, French women writers, feminist
theory
Writing Love: Letters, Women, and the Novel in France, 1605-1776
(1995)
PMLA Advisory Board member for pre-1800 French literature and culture,
2002-2005
J. Gerald Kennedy Ph.D., 1973, Duke University
American Literature
Edgar Allen Poe
Ernest Hemingway
Contemporary American Short Fiction
Literary Modernism
Ph.D., 1981, University of California, Los Angeles
American poetry
Critical theory
Philosophy and Literature
Ph.D., University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Medieval literature; literary criticism and theory
Pychoanalysis
Epistemology
Ph.D., 1981, Columbia University
African American literature
Southern literature
Ethnic literature
Modern Italian literature
Humor
Laura Martins Ph.D., University of Maryland
Contemporary South American fiction and film
Genre and film studies
Art
& Violence
19th
Century national literatures
John Mastrogianakos Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2001: Italian Literature & Literary
Theory
Industry and literary production in the context of the political
and demographic crisis in Italy of the the 1960's
Aesthetic self-reflexivity as a metaphor for resistance against
established conventions
Journalism
& Literature: Luciano Bianciardi's writings
Bakhtin's
dialogic principle("heteroglossia") & the 1960's novel; Liminal
theory, Discourse analysis, possible world theory of fiction
Pius Ngandu Professor of French Studies
Executive Director, Center for French & Francophone studies
Semantics of metaphor
Francophone
Literature and narrativity
Gestural
semiotics
Lisi Oliver Ph.D., Harvard University
Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics
Medieval Languages and Literatures
Co-Editor, Southern Review
Narrative theory
Autobiography
Modern
poetry
African
literature
John Pizer
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington (1985)
Rally Day Coordinator for German Program
Former Member of Faculty Senate
Executive Committee, Program in Comparative Literature
Recycling
Committee
18th-20th
century German literature, German language (all levels), Comparative
Literature
18th-20th
century German literature, hermeneutics, critical theory
Theory
and practice of World Literature
The
Historical Perspective in German Genre Theory: Its Development from
Gottsched to Hegel (1985)
Toward
a Theory of Radical Origin: Essays on Modern German Thought (1995)
Ego/Alter
Ego: Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
(1998)
Contemporary French Philosophy
History of Western Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
"Time and Exteriority: Aristotle, Heidegger, Derrida"(1994)
"Political Physics: Derrida, Deleuze, and the Body Politic"
Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
(1995)
Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Heidegger and the Subject (Prometheus Books, 1999)
A Chaque fois Mien (Galilee, forthcoming 2003)
Continental Theories of Subjectivity
Disseminating Lacan, coeditor (SUNY Press, 1996)
Heidegger and Practical Philosophy, coeditor (SUNY Press, 2002)
Rethinking Facticity, coeditor(under review, SUNY Press)
Translations from the French Philosophers: Jean-Luc Nancy,
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Francoise Dasture, Juan-David Nasio, and
presently Martin Heidegger's last seminars, Vier Seminare
for Indiana UP
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles (1966)
Joseph S. Yenni
Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies
Chairman,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Louisiana State University,
1980 to 1985
Director,
LSU Summer Study Program in Italy (Florence and Siena), 1989, 1991,
1992, 1993
Member
of the Board of Governors of the LSU Faculty Club, Inc.
Faculty
Representative to the Board of Governors of the LSU Union
Spanish
Golden Age Literature
The Renaissance in Europe
Spanish Picaresque Novel
Picaresque Novel in Comparative Literature
Literary Relations between Spain and Italy in the Renaissance
Renaissance Studies
Bibliografia razonada y anotada de las obras maestras de la
picaresca española (1980)
Critical edition of La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes (1976)
PhD., Columbia University
Editorial Boards of CHIASMA (Rodopi, Amsterdam) and Pleine Marge
(Paris)
Executive Committee, French & Italian
European and American Literature from 1850 to the present with special
emphasis on Interdisciplinary Studies and Critical Theory
Literature and the visual arts
Translation Theory
Gender Studies
Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Medieval and Renaissance literature; literary theory and criticism
Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor of French
Director, Graduate Program in French
19th
and 20th century literature; literary theory; gender theory
Jack Yeager Professor of French Studies
Southeast Asian Francophone literature
Francophone women's writing
Gender theory
Michelle Zerba Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
(1982)
Former Acting Director of Program in Comparative Literature
Faculty Senator, General Education Committee
Executive Committee, Program in Comparative Literature
Greek literature and philosophy, literary theory, Greek drama, classical
rhetoric
Tragedy and Theory (1988)
"Socratic Magic: Enchantment, Irony, and Persuasion in Plato's Dialogues"Classical World (1994)
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