Faculty

Founders Hall 314

610-896-1438

kanyinef@haverford.edu

Professor Anyinefa specializes in Francophone Studies. In addition to teaching a survey of Francophone literatures (French 250) and a course on French and Francophone cinema (French 255), he offers advanced special topic courses. He also has strong interests in French and German colonial literatures.

Instructor Florence Echtman

Founders 312

610-526-7959

fechtman@haverford.edu

A.B.D, University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in language pedagogy and the teaching of civilisation. In addition to teaching the regular intermediate sequence (French 003-004) and intensive intermediate (French 005) she and frequently teaches French 102 and French 212.

Assistant Professor Duane W. Kight

Founders 313

610-896-1302

dkight@haverford.edu

Duane Kight’s path to French began as a child, when he lived in a suburb of Paris and attended an international school, run by the French educational system, where instruction was in French. He got his BA (with a major in French) from Hobart College (Geneva, NY) in 1977, then went on to get a MA and a PhD (both in French) from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was trained as a medievalist. His dissertation was on the poetics of medieval pilgrimage, focusing on the pilgrim guide to Compostela contained in the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus. Since coming to Haverford in 1988, he has been responsible for teaching beginning and intermediate French, as well as for introductory courses in culture and literature. Outside the French department, he has occasionally taught courses on Alfred Hitchcock and regularly teaches a first-year writing seminar on monsters. His research interests still include the medieval period, particularly the 12th century, but have expanded beyond that to include the French Second Empire and Belle Epoque, the English Victorian period, opera and music-literature relations, queer theory, cultural studies, film studies, and monsters. He is also interested in computer-assisted language pedagogy. His main outside interest lies in studying voice and in singing with the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, a 155-year-old symphonic chorus.

Associate Professor David L. Sedley

Chair and Major Advisor

Founders 312

610-896-1439

dsedley@haverford.edu

David L. Sedley is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature.  He received a B.A. in philosophy from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.  Among his research and teaching interests:  early modern French and English literature; history of aesthetics and intellectual history; relations between literature, philosophy, and the sciences;  sublimity, taste, irony, and the rise of the novel; skepticism, probability theory, experimentalism, and the vacuum.  His book, Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton, was published in 2005 by The University of Michigan Press.  He is currently working on a book about how distinctions between literary and scientific spaces were made in early modern culture.  Recent courses taught:  Intermediate French; Textes, images, voix (an introduction to French literature); Introduction to Comparative Literature; Approches critiques et théoriques (an introduction to critical theory in French) Crises et identités:  la Renaissance; Passions et culture: le grand siècle; L'art du ridicule de Rabelais à Voltaire; L'Invention de la modernité de Montaigne à Rousseau; As the World Turned:  Milton and Revolutions of Early Modern Europe; French Senior Conference.