Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Graduate Chair--Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies (FIGS)
- Novel
- Scientific Texts and Ideas
- Western Europe
- C19
- C20, including Modernism
- Deconstruction
- Spatial Theory
Fields of Study
Research Interests:
19th- and 20th-century French fiction; science and literature; spatial theory; urbanism; popular crime fiction; the nouveau roman; Optiques: the Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction (2006); Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Space and Science in French Crime Fiction (2016); and Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics, co-edited with Robert Rushing (2018).