Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck
Title: Professor of French on the Pittsburgh Endowment Chair
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Office: Chicago Hall 105
Phone: 845.437.5793
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Biography
Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck holds an Agrégation de Lettres Classiques and a doctorate from the University of Paris. She teaches film courses in the French and Francophone Studies Department (French National Cinema, Emotions in French Film), the Women Studies program (Films by Women), and the Film department (The New
Wave, Film Noir). Other teaching interests include XXth-Century and contemporary French literature and French grammar.
She has published books on the contemporary novelist Julien Gracq, edited a special issue of L'Esprit Créateur on "Women of the Belle Epoque" with Jean-François Fourny and a travel narrative by Eugène Fromentin. She has published articles on XIXth-Century fiction, travel narrative, modern and contemporary poetry, and film. Her current research focuses on contemporary French poetry. She is co-editing a collection of essays on this topic with Dominique Viart and writing a book entitled "Poésie en retour".
She is the recipient of several awards, including an NEH summer stipend and an NEH research grant. She holds the Pittsburgh Endowment Chair in the Humanities at Vassar College and, in the spring of 2001, was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle.