French Faculty

FACULTY

Marie-Pascale Pieretti
Professor of French

Chair, French & Italian
OFFICE: Embury 208,x3506, mpierett@drew.edu
Prof. Pieretti's Webpage

Education	Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, New York University Maîtrise and Licence, Université de Lille III, France.
Teaching	Advanced Conversation, French Popular culture, Early Modern literature.
Publications	Her publications include articles on women translators, women in the academies and female epistolary writers in 18th-century France.
Research interests	Women’s writings of the early modern period in Europe, the textual strategies of 18th-century French women writers to participate in and contribute to the Republic of Letters.

Deborah Hess
Professor of French
OFFICE: Embury 202, x3339, dhess@drew.edu

Education	Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin- Madison Masters of Arts,Univ. of Chicago.
Teaching	French Poetry, The Psychological novel, Francophone Literature.
Publications	Tournants: Conversation en Culture (Deborah Morsink, Prentice-Hall); Complexity in Maurice Blanchot’s Fiction: Relations Between Science and Literature (Peter Lang); Politics and Literature: The Case of Maurice Blanchot (Peter Lang).
Research interests	19th and 20th century French and Francophone poetry and fiction, particularly literature of the 1980s and 1990s; cross-disciplinary approach to literary studies.

Marie-Christine Massé
Assistant Professor of French
OFFICE: Embury 203, x3713, mmasse@drew.edu

Education	Ph.D. in French Literature, University of California at Davis, CA. Masters of Arts in French Literature, University of Georgia at Athens, GA. Maîtrise, Langue et Civilisation Anglophones, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France.
Teaching	Intermediate French, Contemporary French Cinema, French Popular Culture, Advanced Stylistics, French in the Professional world, the 19th century novel, First year Seminar: Amélie goes to Hollywood.
Publications	Her publications include an Intermediate French Literary Textbook and an article on colonial propaganda in turn-of-the-century postcards from the French Caribbean.
Research interests	19th century literature and culture, the Gothic and cultural representation of modernity, colonial literature, French Cinema, and the application of technology in Foreign Language instruction.

Vanessa Merhi
Adjunct Instructor of French

Education	Ph.D. in French Literature, Rutgers University
Teaching	Elementary French
Publications	Her articles include a study of the evolution of laughter in Hugo, Baudelaire, and Breton, and an intertextual approach to La Fontaine for the intermediate-to-advanced French classroom.
Research Interests	19th and 20th century French literature, in particular the relationship between black humor, the comic, and the Romantic grotesque; French cinema.

Stefania Britt
Adjunct Instructor of French
OFFICE: Embury 201, x8455, sbritt@drew.edu

Education	Masters of Arts in French Literature, Rutgers University, NJ
Teaching	Elementary French
Area of Specialization	Her graduate studies included French literature from the 12^th to the 20^th century, cinema, and Francophone literature. She has a particular interest in the works of André Gide, Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Interests	In addition to her passion for teaching, she enjoys contemporary French cinema, French cuisine, and photography. She shares her interest for French language and culture with her husband and two children through frequent travels to France.