French Faculty

FACULTY

Deborah Hess
Professor of French
Chair, French & Italian
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-Pascale Pieretti
Professor of French
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.

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, Advanced Stylistics, French in the Professional world, the 19th century novel, First year Seminar: Amélie goes to Hollywood.
Publications	Intermediate French Literary Textbook : Vagabondages littéraires: Inititiation à la littérature d'expression française, Mac Graw-Hill, 1996. In collaboration with Carpenter, S., Denis, F., Keita, C., Posfay, E., Strand, D., Yandell, C. « Étude de cartes postales des Antilles françaises et de la Guyane, 1900-1920. » The French Review, Dec. 2006.
Research interests	19th century literature and culture, the Gothic and its cultural representation of modernity, colonial literature, and the application of technology in Foreign Language instruction.

Muriel Placet-Kouassi
Assistant Professor of French
OFFICE: Embury 208, x8455, mplacetk@drew.edu

Education	Ph.D. in French Literature, Louisiana State University.
Teaching	Elementary French I & II, Intermediate French, Introduction to French Literature, West African Francophone Literatures and Cinema
Publications	A paper entitled Identité, Légitimité et Rhizome dans Les deux fins d’Orimita Karabegoviç by Janine Matillon, published in the literary journal Chimères (Spring 03). This paper deals with the concept of identity and legitimacy in a 20th-century French novel.
Research interests	20th century Francophone literatures and cultures, African cinema, and French language. She also works for the New York African Film Festival.

Sarah Bonnefoi
Adjunct Instructor of French
OFFICE: Embury 200, 3145, sbonnefo@drew.edu

Education

Teaching

Elementary French I & II. Also taught executives in a French-American company.

Interests

Enjoys bringing her experiences of living as an ex-patriot in France into her classroom.