AFFILIATED FACULTY
DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Peter Bloom, Ph. D, UC Los Angeles, Assistant Professor; Department of Film Studies. Professor Bloom is a specialist of French and Francophone cultures, including cinema and the new Beur culture of post-colonial France.	David Marshall, Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University, Professor, Department of English, Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts. Professor Marshall is a specialist of the 18-th century European novel and has written on the aesthetics of theatricality and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His books include: The Surprising Effects of Sympathy: Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley (1988).
Susan Derwin, Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies; Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature. Among other topics, Professor Derwin is a specialist of the 19th- and 20-th century European novels. Her critical approaches includes psychoanalysis and literature. Her publications include: The Ambivalence of Form: Lukács, Freud, and the Novel.	William F. Prizer, Ph.D, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Professor, Department of Music. Professor Prizer is a specialist of Renaissance and early Baroque music. His publications include: Courtly Pastimes: The Frottole of Marchetto Cara (UMI Research Press, 1980) and Music in the Culture of Renaissance Mantua, 1410-1540 (Oxford University Press, in press).
Sharon A. Farmer, Ph.D, Harvard University, Professor, Department of History. Professor Farmer is a specialist of Medieval Europe, and has recently published a book on Medieval Paris: Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris. Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor. She co-edited: Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religious Expression and Social Meaning in the Middle Ages.	Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Ph.D, Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y, Professor, Department of History of Art & Architecture. Professor Solomon-Godeau’s research and teaching areas include: 19th- and 20th-century French and European art. Her recent book deals with the male nude in Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary French cultures: Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation (1996).
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Ph.D, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology. Professor Falasca-Zamponi’s research and teaching areas include: the French School of Sociology, Bataille, political & historical sociology; Western European studies. She recently published a book on Italian fascism entitled: Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy (1997). Her French Studies course offerings include Sociology 185F, French Social Theory.	Elisabeth Weber, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Professor and Chair of the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies. Her fields include: French philosophy and theory; psychoanalysis and trauma-studies, in addition to modern German Judaism and German literature. She is the editor of works by Jacques Derrida, and German translator of texts by Derrida, Levinas and Guattari.
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