Faculty
Dr. Stephen Foster, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Areas of Research and Teaching Interests:
19th-century literary history, especially Erckmann-Chatrian [see Foster: Des Salons victoriens aux cabanes d'emigrants: il y a cent ans (New York: Peter Lang, 1986], Emile Ercmann et Alexandre Chatrian. Correspondance inedite(1870-1887). Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universities Blaise-Pascal, 2000 and Bibliographie des oeuvres d'Ercmann-Chatrian et de al critique publiees en France, 1844-1998. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. Foreign language teacher education. French linguistics.
Dr. Peter Schulman, Associate Professor
(B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University)
Associate Professor of French and International Studies is the author of The Sunday of Fiction: The Modern French Eccentric (West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2003) and with Mischa Zabotin, Le Dernier livre du siècle (Paris: Romillat, 2001) an investigation of the notion of fin de siècle through interviews with over sixty prominent French and Francophone personalities in literature, politics, art, business, music, cuisine...even tightrope walking...he has also co-edited three volumes of essays: The Marketing of Eros: Performance, Sexuality and Consumer Culture with Frederick A. Lubich (Essen, Germany: Die Blaue Eule Press, 2003); Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005) with Aminia Brueggemann; and the forthcoming Chasing Esther: Jewish Expressions of Cultural Difference (Santa Monica Ca/Haifa Israel: Kol Katan Press, 2006 forthcoming) with David Metzger. He has recently written the introduction and notes for the first major translation of Jules Verne's The Begum's Milllions (Wesleyan UP, 2005) and is working on a critical edition and first complete English translation of Jules Verne's last novel, The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz for the University of Nebraska Press. He has also translated Celine Zins's book of poetry, Adamah, forthcoming at VVV Editions, Halifax, Nova Scotia. His fields of expertise are the 19th-century and 20th-century French novel, French cinema (especially the works of Jacques Tati and Pierre Etaix), Contemporary French Poetry, and literary translation (he currently translates French Detective Fiction short stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and has translated Georges Simenon's The Thirtteen Culprits for Crippen and Landru Press. He currently serves on the Modern Language Association's Executive Committee for 20th-century French Literature; the Executive Board for the Societe des Professeurs Francais et Francophone d'Amerique (SPFFA); the editorial board for Francographies and International Topics and has written numerous articles on Jules Verne, Jacques Réda, Jazz in France, Jean Echenoz, the theme of the bachelor in French literature, Lee Miller, and Jean-Pierre Melville.
