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Louise
K. Horowitz, B.A., Michigan; M.A., New
York; Ph.D.,
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Showalter, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Yale
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Norman
Ellman, A.B., Dartmouth; M.A.,
Pennsylvania
Part-Time
Lecturers
Anne
Jamison, B.A., Barnard; M.A., University of
London;
M.A., Princeton University
Kristen
E. Stromberg, B.A., Grinnell; M.A., Ph.D.,
University
of Pennsylvania
Faculty profiles
Norman Ellman holds an A.B. from Dartmouth, and an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he has also pursued further graduate study in French. He has taught on a part-time basis at Rutgers, Camden, almost every semester since 1981 and in summer school. He has also taught regularly at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and at the University of Pennsylvania and has served on the faculty of a study abroad program in Strasbourg. He usually offers courses in the first two years of language study, but he has also given advanced language courses and a course on the French short story in English translation.
Louise K. Horowitz holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York. Her primary field of research is the Classical Age. Her publications include a book on the French moralist writers of the seventeenth century, Love and Language; and Honoré d’Urfé, a study of his life and works. She has written many articles, especially on the literature of the Classical Age. Among the most recent are “The Second Time Around,” a study of Racine, published in L’Esprit Créateur, and “Truly Inimitable? Repetition in La Princesse de Clèves,” in Approaches to Teaching La Princesse de Clèves, a volume in the well known MLA series on teaching major texts. After teaching at the University of Rochester, she joined the faculty of Rutgers, Camden, in 1978, where she holds the rank of Professor of French. In the undergraduate program, she teaches all levels of French language, literature courses in French on the literature of the Classical Era, French theater of all periods, comedy, and literature by or about women. She offers courses in English translation on most of these topics, many in the French program, some cross-listed with women’s studies, and several also in the college honors program and the Masters of Liberal Studies program. In addition, she teaches seventeenth-century French literature in the graduate program in French in New Brunswick.
Anne Jamison holds a B.A. in English from Barnard College, an M.A. in Czech from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London, an M.A. in comparative literature from Princeton, where she expects to complete her Ph.D. in 2000. She has taught at the University of Southern Maine, Princeton, and Charles University in Prague, where she gave the first course on literature by women to be taught in the former Czechoslovakia. She has held several travel and research fellowships. Her dissertation, "Form as Transgression: Structuring a Modern Poetics," investigates the connection between formal innovation, aesthetic value, and the violation of gender and sexual norms in works by Charles Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Jan Mukarovsky and Franz Kafka. Her course on French Modernism in fall 2000 will be her first at Rutgers, Camden.
English Showalter has a B.A. and Ph.D. in French from Yale University. His books on eighteenth-century French literature include The Evolution of the French Novel, 1641-1782; Voltaire et ses amis, d'après la correspondance de Madame de Graffigny; Madame de Graffigny and Rousseau: Between the Two "Discours"; and co-editorship of La Correspondance complète de Madame de Graffigny, of which five volumes (of a projected fourteen) have appeared so far. He has also published two books on Albert Camus, Exiles and Strangers: A Reading of Camus's Exile and the Kingdom; and The Stranger: Humanity and the Absurd, as well as an edition and translation of the filmscript of My Night at Maud's (written and directed by Eric Rohmer). He has written numerous articles, most recently the chapter on “Prose Fiction: France,” in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, volume 4: The Eighteenth Century; and “‘Madame a fait un livre’ : Madame de Graffigny, Palissot et Les Philosophes” in Recherches sur Diderot et l’Encyclopédie. Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 1974, he taught at Haverford College, the University of California at Davis, and Princeton University. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He served as Executive Director of the Modern Language Association from 1983 to 1985, and played a large part in writing The MLA Guide to the Job Search, a manual for new faculty in English and foreign language. Prof. Showalter teaches all levels of French language, courses in French on literature of the eighteenth century, fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the Existentialists. He also teaches courses in English translation on these topics, as well as on French cinema and on crime and justice in French literature, both in the undergraduate French program and in the Masters in Liberal Studies program. He is a member of the faculty of the graduate program in French in New Brunswick.
Kristen E. Stromberg has a B.A. in history from Grinnell College, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, "Fathers, Families and the State in France, 1914-1945," is currently being revised for publication. She has taught at Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1995. She has held a Fulbright fellowship for study in France, and a Mellon dissertation fellowship. She also worked for a year in Geneva in the Office of International Affairs and Human Rights. She is teaching courses on French civilization at Rutgers, Camden, for the first time in 2000-2001.
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