University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 2003-:

Undergraduate:Paris, capital of the nineteenth century; Poetry & Painting in Nineteenth-Century France; The Fantastic; L'Espagne romantique; Figuring the Artist in Nineteenth-Century France, team-taught with Susan Siegfried of History of Art; Realism and Idealism in the 19th-century Novel; Literature on Trial; Nineteenth-Century Poetry; La Bohème; Fictions of Fashion in 19th-Century France: Art, Literature, Theory, team-taught with Susan Siegfried of History of Art

Graduate: Forms of Autobiography; Representing Revolution; Figuring the Artist in Nineteenth-Century France, team-taught with Susan Siegfried of History of Art; Walter Benjamin; Restoration France 1815-1830 — Romanticism and the Arts; Literature and Photography; Fictions of Fashion in 19th-century France — Art, Literature, Theory, team-taught with Susan Siegfried of History of Art; Baudelaire; In the Salon of Germaine de Staël: The Invention of Romanticism; Symbolist Poetry in the World

Cambridge University, 1998-2002:

Translation Parts I & II. Nineteenth-century literature lectures (all the major nineteenth-century authors). Nineteenth-century seminars: word and image; the prose poem; the historical novel; Paris, city of revolution. M. Phil. seminar: Foucault & Certeau; Walter Benjamin. Theory lecture & seminar: Walter Benjamin. Introduction to French literature lectures. Supervisions on all of the above, plus French essay, undergraduate and M.Phil. dissertations. Convenor, M.Phil. module on "Romanticism and Revolution", with seminars (Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Sand, etc.). Examining for nineteenth century, contemporary theory & M. Phil.

University College London, 1995-98:

French: Translation, Prose, Summary; Frankfurt School, Spectacle and Display, Certeau and Foucault (in M.A. Theory course); Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century; Novels of Introspection; Literature of the Fantastic; Romanticism and the Invention of the Past; Romantic Women; Lectures in nineteenth-century literature and culture at all levels.

Comparative Literature: Theory (M.A.); State of the Discipline (M.A.); 19th- and 20th-Century Novel.

University of California, Davis, 1987-94:

French: Romantic poetry and drama; 19th-century novel; 19th-century poetry; Introduction to poetry; Paris: Modernity and Metropolitan Culture. Postgraduate seminars: Stendhal; Realism, history, & the novel; Word and image.

Comparative Literature: Introduction to poetry; Representations of the city; Humanities: ancient to modern; European Romanticism; The Grotesque; The Historical Novel; Literature on Trial.

Honors program: Poe and Flaubert; The Gothic Novel; Dandyism; Contemporary North African (francophone) and Indian literature.

Columbia University, 1982-5:

Literature Humanities: Genesis to Dostoevsky (year course); Laforgue: poet, critic, conteur; The Poet as art critic from Diderot to Apollinaire.

Stanford University:

Advanced French composition; First-year French.

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University of California, Davis

Marie-Christine Massé, La Modernité et ses fantasmes (The New School)

Françoise Dragacci-Paulsen, Le Sujet rimbaldien

University College London:

Ariane Smart, Myth and Demystification in Post-Revolutionary France: Hugo's Visions of Paris (International Programs, University College London)

Ayman Salem, Individuality and Society: Essentialised Identities and the Limits of Critique in Simmel, Lukács and Luhmann (codirected)

Cambridge University:

Kate Griffiths, The Ghosts of Naturalism. Zola and Maupassant: Sight, Self, Fiction and the Feminine (Cardiff University)

Jutta Fortin, Mechanisms of Defence and Emotional Control in Nineteenth-Century French literature of the Fantastic (Université Saint-Etienne, France)

Mairi Liston, Writing Space: Modernity and the Paris of the Goncourt Brothers

Blandine Chambost, Female Figures of Excess in French Painting and Literature in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

University of Michigan:

Maxime Foerster, French Romanticism and the Reinvention of Love (Southern Methodist University)

Amr Kamal, Empires and Emporia. Fictions of the Department Store in the Modern Mediterranean from Saint-Simon to Robert Solé (City College, City University of New York)

Maria Hadjipolycarpou, Intersubjective Histories in the Mediterranean: History and the Poetics of Self in Postcolonial Life-Writing ( University of Illinois Modern Greek Program)

Shannon Winston, Vision and Revision in Mediterranean Fiction (Princeton University Writing Program)

Peter Vorissis on the tableau vivant in French, Italian, and English literature and film

Isabelle Gillet on female portraiture in early nineteenth-century France

In addition, I am currently on numerous PhD committees in History of Art, Comparative Literature, Slavic, and Music.

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