Areas of Research/Interest: History and Aesthetic of French Cinema, Cinema, Myths and Collective Beliefs, Film Theory, Cinematic Representations of Landscapes, 20th Century French Literature Fellowships/Honors: Harvard University : Arthur Sachs Fellowship (2003-2005), Cornell University : Research Grant (2002), Brown University : Summer Research Grant (2002), University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne : French Government Fellowship for Doctoral Studies (2000-2003)
Select Publications:
"French Cinema at NYU": http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/lc104/frenchcinemaatnyu/ a) Authored books Le Cinéma de l’immobilité : style, politi que, réception. Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne (2008). Antonin Artaud – la Virtualité
incarnée (published by the « Institut
d’Esthétique des Arts Contemporains », U.M.R. n°8592 C.N.R.S./Paris
I), Paris-Montreal : L’Harmattan 2000. b) Book Chapters «Thinking Cinema Across Fault Lines: André Bazin and the French School of Geography» in Dudley Andrew and Hervé Joubert-Laurencin (eds.) : Opening Bazin. Oxford University Press (forthcoming in 2010). « Le territoire de l’extase : le corps et le paysage dans l’œuvre de Bruno Dumont » in Jérôme Game (ed.) : Image des corps/Corps des images au cinéma. Lyon : ENS éditions (forthcoming in 2010). « L’Immobilité au cinéma: continuité ou dialectique ? » in Dominique Chateau et Claire Leman (eds), Représentations et modernité. Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne, 2003 (151-166).
c) Editor « The French New Wave : Fiftith Anniversary Special
Issue », Contemporary French Civilization (with Margaret C.
Flinn) vol. 32:2 (summer 2008). d) Articles « The Spatial Evacuation of Politics: Landscape, Power and the 'Monarch' in Robert Guédiguian's The Last Mitterrand », Yale French Studies vol. 115 (67-79). « Jean Epstein’s Cinéma du diable : The Ambiguities of Subversion», SubStance, 2005, vol. 34:3 (3-16). « François Truffaut en Pygmalion : les arrêts sur image dans Les Quatre Cents Coups et Jules et Jim», The French Review, 2006, vol. 79:6 (1187-1194). « La loi au cinéma : le spectateur entre mimesis et catharsis », Contre Bande (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), n°10, 2003 (27-44).
COURSES TAUGHT Undergraduate: - History of French Cinema (in English) ; cross-listed with the department of Cinema Studies and the Drama Literature Program. - Contemporary French Cinema (in French). - Cinema and the 19th Century French Novel (in French, with Professor Claudie Bernard) : http://french.as.nyu.edu/object/V45.0968.001F Graduate: - French Film Theory (in French) - French Cinema from the Revolution of Sound to the pre-“New Wave” Era: 1929-1958 (in English); cross-listed with the Department of Cinema Studies. - Teaching French Cinema (in French) - French Cinema and Politics from the 1930s to the present day (in English) ; cross-listed with the department of Cinema Studies. - Myth and Cinema (in French): http://french.as.nyu.edu/object/G45.1764 |



