Graduate Courses for Fall 2025

1. FREN 7140 by Prof.Bastien Craipain

 This course explores Édouard Glissant's Poetics of Relations and how it continues to offer a defining and seemingly unsurpassable           horizon in the evolution of Caribbean thought and poetics. It uncovers the layers of Caribbean discourse embedded in it. It also goes           back in time from the "poetics of Relation"  to the politics of the Haitian Revolution. Other works of celebrated and lesser-known figures      from the Circum-Caribbean will also be explored to assess the nature and limits of their contributions to the wayward geneaologies of creole cultures.

 

 

                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. FREN 7960 by Prof. Rosemary Peters

 This course explores the idea of "elsewhere" from the perspective of a France looking increasingly outward in the 19th century_ from Napoleonic expeditions to the mission civilisatrice, Orientalism in literature and the arts to the growing trend of travel, memoirs and "Curiosités". Personal memoirs, travel narratives , missionary initiatives, correspondence, visual and musical literature, fiction and poetry will be examined to develop the idea of elsewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. FREN 7970 by prof. Adelaide M. Russo

This course introduces students to important fundamentals of conducting humanities research in literary and cultural studies at the graduate level. Students will be given instructions about the use of multiple libraries, archives and data bases here and abroad. The primary text, provided by the Department of French Studies for all enrolled students, will be The Craft of Research (4th edition), by Booth, Colomb, Williams, Bizup and Fitzgerald (chicago, 2016). Students will focus on the areas of research in which they desire to develop their expertise.