Related Faculty

The Department of French maintains close working relations with faculty members from other UCLA departments/programs who teach and engage in research in areas elated to French studies. The Department's own graduate program requires that doctoral students take a minimum of two courses outside the Department which are relevant to the student's specialization. The following list includes a number of these faculty members but is not intended to be exhaustive. Faculty who teach or publish in several fields may be listed more than once.

Medieval-Renaissance   

17th & 18th Centuries   

19th Century

20th Century

Contemporary Critical Theory    

Francophone and Postcolonial Studies  

Medieval & Renaissance

Michael J.B. Allen Department of English
(Ph.D., Michigan, D.Litt., Oxford 1987) Renaissance literature and philosophy, especially the Platonic tradition. He teaches the whole range of English literature from the Anglo-Saxons to Milton, and especially Shakespeare, but his research interests are centered on the philosophical, theological, magical, and mythological issues explored by the fifteenth century Italian Platonists, Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola.

Murray Bradshaw Department of Musicology
(Ph.D., Chicago) Author of several books and scholarly editions of music, including The Origin of the Toccata (1972), The Falsobordone: A Study in Renaissance and Baroque Music (1978), and Early Sacred Monody (3 vols; 1985-). His translation and study of Giovanni Luca Conforti's Breve et facile maniera s'essercitarsi (1593) appeared in 1998, and an earlier facsimile edition and translation, with Edward J. Sohnlen, of Girolamo Diruta's Il Transilvano (1593, 1603) appeared in 1983 and 1984. He is also the general editor of "Musicological Studies and Documents" and the "Miscellanea" series for the American Institute of Musicology.

A. R. Braunmuller Department of English
(Ph.D., Yale) Special interests are Renaissance and modern drama. In addition to numerous articles on Renaissance and modern dramatists, he has edited several plays -- most recently, Shakespeare's King John (Oxford, 1989) and Macbeth (Cambridge, 1997); he has published a critical study of George Peele (1983) and A Seventeenth-Century Letter-Book (Delaware, 1983), an edition and study of a manuscript containing numerous original items by George Chapman and Ben Jonson. His most recent critical book is Natural Fictions: George Chapman's Major Tragedies (Delaware, 1992). With Michael Hattaway, he co-edited and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama and wrote a chapter on Stuart art collecting and literary patronage for The Mental World of the Jacobean Court (both Cambridge University Press).

Brian Copenhaver Department of History
(Ph.D., University of Kansas) Renaissance History. Publications: Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in English Translation, with Notes and Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1992); A History of Western Philosophy, III: Renaissance Philosophy (Oxford , Oxford U.P., 1991); with Charles Schmitt 'Hermes Theologies: The Sienese Mercury and Ficino's Hermetic Demons,' in J.W. O'Malley, et. al., eds., Humanity and Divinity in Renaissance and Reformation: Essays in Honor of Charles Trinkaus (Leiden: Brill, 1993), pp. 149-82.

Carlo Ginzburg Department of History
(Dottore in Lettere, University of Pisa) Fields of interest: Italian Renaissance; Early Modern European History. Publications:  Ecstasies. Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath, New York, 1991; Occhiacci di legno. Nove riflessioni sulla distanza, Milano, 1998;  The Judge and the Historian. Marginal Notes an a Late-Twentieth-century Miscarriage of Justice, London 1999; History, Rhetoric, and Proof. The Menachem Stern Jerusalem Lectures, London and Hanover 1999; No Island is an Island. Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective, New York 2000.

Henry Ansgar Kelly Department of English
(Ph.D., Harvard) Chaucer, Shakespeare, Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture. H. A. (Andy) Kelly, currently the Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA, teaches mainly in the medieval period of English literature, but his researches, which focus on the history of ideas, take him from biblical times to the present, and range from the classical Middle East to Western Europe, with specialties including demonology, canon and secular law, inquisitorial procedure, baptism, marriage, sexual offenses, religious life, theology, and tragedy. His books include: Tragedy and Comedy from Dante to Pseudo-Dante (1989); Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages (1993); Chaucerian Tragedy (1997, pb. 2000). Forthcoming is "The Pardoner's Voice, Disjunctive Narrative, and Modes of Effemination" (Festschrift for V. A. Kolve, 2001), and a volume of collected essays, Inquisitions and Other Trial Procedures in the Medieval West (Variorum Reprints, 2001).

Katherine King Departments of Comparative Literature and Classics.
(Ph.D., Princeton) King teaches seminars on Greek tragedy and the Classical tradition for which she utilizes feminist theory and cultural criticism. Her main interest is in why and how a writer manipulates myth and important cultural texts for ideological purposes. In 1987 King published Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages. She edited Homer (1994), a collection of essays on the influence of Homer from the Middle Ages to the 1990's. Professor King has also published essays on the classical tradition that focus on such diverse twentieth-century authors as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Marguerite Yourcenar. King is currently working on "Imaginary Women," a cross-cultural analysis of some archetypal women in classical Greek (e.g., Helen, Medea, and Penthesilea), and modern American cultures.

Richard Rouse Department of History
(Ph.D., Cornell) Fields of interest: Medieval History: social history; literary history; paleography. Publications include: La production du livre universitaire au moyen age, ed., with L. Bataillon and B. Guyot (Paris 1988), Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Texts and Manuscripts, with M.A. Rouse (Notre Dame 1991), and Manuscripts and their Makers.  Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500, with Mary A. Rouse, 2 vols. (London 2000).

Debora Shuger Department of English
(Ph.D., Stanford) Early Modern Political and Religious Thought; Neo-Latin. Debora Shuger's interests range across a number of fields: Tudor-Stuart devotional poetry and prose, theology and biblical exegesis, legal history, political thought, rhetoric, life-writing (biography, memoirs, diaries, murder pamphlets etc.). She is at present working on three projects: a book on Measure for Measure and the politics of post-Reformation England; a book on Tudor-Stuart censorship; and an essay on religion and literature, 1603-1641. Shuger is the author of Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture (1990); rpt. 1997); and The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Subjectivity, and Sacrifice (1994). She is also the co-editor of Religion and Culture in Renaissance England (1997), and has published articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Milton, Donne, Jonson, Middleton, rhetoric, hagiography, and mirrors.

17th and 18th Century

Lynn Hunt Department of History
French and European history, French Revolution, gender history, and cultural history. Select publications include: Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984); The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992); Histories: French Constructions of the Past (1995) (with Jacques Revel); Beyond the Cultural Turn (1999) (with Victoria Bonnell).

Elisabeth Le Guin Department of Musicology
Luigi Boccherini, New Age music, Debussy (in a forthcoming collection on postmodern listening); relations between 17th-century horsemanship and music-making (in another forthcoming collection on information theory and the arts).

Robert Maniquis Department of English
(Ph.D., Columbia) Specializes in literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has written or edited books and articles in English, French, and German. Among his publications, authored and edited, are English Romanticism and The French Revolution. A Special Issue of Studies in Romanticism, (1989); The Encyclopédie and the Age of Revolution: Essays and a Catalog, [with Clorinda Donato] (1992); Les Révolutions dans le monde ibérique (1766-1834) : soulèvement national et révolution libérale, état des questions (with Oscar Marti and Joseph Perez), (1990). He is currently working on a book entitled Blood Upon the Flowers: Violence and Sacrifice in Romantic Culture. Professor Maniquis is also a contributor to the distinguished French journal Critique. From 1989-90, he was Director of The French Revolution: A UCLA Bicentennial Program, the largest program of its kind organized anywhere in the world, including sixteen colloquia, special undergraduate courses, fifty public lectures, a Paris-Los Angeles public video conference, on exhibition on French political caricature, the first exhibition organized by the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris with any foreign university, a film retrospective and an exhibition on encyclopedias and politics, both of which traveled throughout the United States. In 1990, he was awarded the medal of the French Legion of Honor for his work in French cultural studies.

Kathryn Norberg Department of History
(Ph.D., Yale) Fields of interest: European Women's History: early modern France. Publications: Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600-1814, U.C. Press, 1985; "Prostitution in Early Modern Europe" in A History of Women in Europe, Vol. 3, Natalie Davis and Arlette Barge, eds., Harvard University Press, 1993; "The Libertine Whore: Prostitution in French Pornography from Margot to Juliette," in History of Pornography, Lynn Hunt, ed. Zone Books, MIT Press, 1993, pp. 225-252; "Fiscal Crises and Liberty, France 1789" in Fiscal Crisis and Representative Government, Philip Hoffman & Kathryn Norberg, eds., Stanford University Press, 1993, pp. 275-325; "Making Sex Public: Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse and the Salacious Novel," in Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France, Dena Goodman and Elizabeth Goldsmith, eds., Cornell University Press, 1995; "Getting the Joke: Venereal Disease and Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century France," in Social Diseases in Eighteenth-Century England and France, Linda Merians and Betty Rizzo eds., forthcoming, Temple University Press, 1996.

Eugen Weber Department of History
Fields of interest: Modern European History: fin-de-siècle France; the decay of liberal institutions and the rise of Fascism; aspects of elite and popular culture in late 19th & 20th century France; intellectual history. (M. Litt. Cambridge) Publications include: Action Française (1962) ;  Varieties of Fascism (1964); A Modern History of Europe (1971);  Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1880-1914 (1976); France, Fin de siècle (1986);  The Hollow Years (1994); Apocalypses (1999).

19th Century

Albert P. Boime Department of Art History
Books include: The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century, London, 1971; The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century, 2nd Edition, with new introduction, New Haven, 1986; "Art in the Age of Revolution," Vol. I in A Social History of Modern Art in Five Volumes, University of Chicago Press, 1987, Hollow Icons: The Politics of Nineteenth Century French Sculpture, Kent State University Press, 1987; The Art of Exclusion: Representing Black People in the Nineteenth Century, Smithsonian Institution Press, January 1990; "Art in the Age of Bonapartism" Vol. II, in A Social History of Modern Art in Five Volumes, University of Chicago Press, 1991; Art and the French Commune, Imaging Paris After War and Revolution, Princeton University Press, 1995; "The Sketch and Caricature as Metaphors for the French Revolution," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, 1992; "Les Themes du Serment: David et la Franc-Maconnerie," David contre David, Paris, 1993; "Manet's Bar at the Folies- Bergere as an Allegory of Nostalgia," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, No. 2, 1993; "Going to Extremes over the Juste Milieu," in The Popularization of Images Visual Culture under the July Monarchy, Princeton University Press, 1994.

Ross Shideler Department of Comparative Literature
(Ph.D., Berkeley). Professor Shideler has co-edited with Kathleen Komar Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformations (1998). Shideler's articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Scandinavian and European literature, as well as his own poetry and translated poems, have appeared in a variety of journals. Shideler teaches courses on the Symbolist and Decadent Movements in France and England, Post-Symbolist Poetry, Darwinism in Literature, and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Swedish and Scandinavian prose and poetry. Shideler's latest book Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg and Hardy is forthcoming at Stanford University Press.

Deborah L. Silverman Department of History
(Ph.D., Princeton) Fields of interest: Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History: politics, national traditions, and the visual arts in 19th century Europe. Publications: "Frantz Jourdain, Architect of the French Modern Style," The Encyclopedia of Architects, Macmillan Press; "Sigmund Freud and Jean-Martin Charcot: Liberal Legacies and the Scope of Psychological Innovations" in  Vienna, 1880-1930, L'Apocalypse Joyeuse, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1986; Art Noveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology and Style, U.C. Press, 1989, French translation, 1993; "The New Woman, Modernism and the Decorative Arts in Fin-de-Siecle France," in Lynn Hunt, ed., Eroticism and the Body Politic in Modern France, 1990;  "At the Threshold of Symbolism, 1888: Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon and Van Gogh's Sower in Symbolist Europe," Lost Paradise, 1995; Van Gogh and Gauguin:  The Search for Sacred Art, Farrar, Straus & Gireux, 2000.

Eugen Weber

20th Century

Perry Anderson Department of History
Field of interest: Modern Europe: Intellectual History. Publications include: Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism, 1974;  Lineages of the Absolutist State, 1974; In the Tracks of Historical Materialism, 1985; English Questions, 1992; A Zone of Engagement, 1992; The Origins of Postmodernity, 1998.

Calvin B. Bedient Department of English
(Ph.D., Univ. of Washington) Twentieth-Century British, Mid-Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature. Publications include: Candy Necklace. Hanover, NH: Univ. Press of New England, 1997;  "Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot." In The Columbia History of English Poetry. Ed. Carl Woodring. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1993. "Kristeva and Poetry as Shattered Signification." Critical Inquiry (Summer 1990), 807-829;  "The Crabbed Genius of Belfast (Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian)." Parnassus: Poetry in Review, 16:1 (1990), 195-216.

Efraín Kristal Department of Comparative Literature
(Maîtrise, Université de Rouen, Ph.D., Stanford) He studied analytic philosophy in the United States and literary theory at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin. He has published numerous essays on Latin American literature and intellectual history, as well as two books: The Andes Viewed from the City: Literary and Political Discourse on the Indian in Peru (1987) and Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa (1998). The themes of his most recent essays include captivity and incest in North and South American literatures; the Spanish historical epic of the 16^th century and its French and Italian antecedents; the literary theory of Burke, Frye, Bloom, and Steiner. He teaches courses on poetry, Latin American literature in comparative contexts (Borges and Kafka, the Joycean novel in Latin America, etc.), and on topics such as the theories of translation, and literary theory and the rhetoric of religion. He is also interested in theater, opera, and painting.

Vincent Pecora. Department of English
(Ph.D. Columbia) Director, UCLA Humanities Consortium and Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies. Twentieth-Century British and Comparative Literature; Literary Theory. He has published two books: Households of the Soul (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), a study of the relations between anthropological economics, literature, and literary theory in the modern period; and Self and Form in Modern Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), an analysis of the rise of modernism in the context of the rationalized society. His forthcoming book is Nations and Identities: Classic Readings (Blackwell), an edited anthology of historical documents focused on the various meanings of "national identity" in the West, from the Reformation to the present. He has published essays on modern literature, intellectual history, and literary theory, and regularly teaches in all three areas. He is at present working on a book tentatively titled Weak Messiah: Religion and Community in T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille.

Saul Friedländer Department of History
Fields of interest: Modern Europe; Jewish History. (Ph.D., Geneva) Major publications include: Nazi Germany and the Jews, vol 1: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939, New York, 1997; (ed.) Probing the Limits of Representation, Cambridge, 1992; History and Psychoanalysis, New York, 1979.

Contemporary Critical Theory

Perry Anderson

Robert Fink Department of Musicology
(MA, Eastman School of Music; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) focuses on music after 1965, with a special interest in minimalism, post-modernism, and the intersection of cultural and music-analytical theory. He is currently writing Repeating Ourselves, a study of minimal music as a cultural practice, for University of California Press. Other interests include psychoanalysis and the hermeneutics of absolute music, performance practice in the twentieth century, the music of Stravinsky, and electronic dance music from funk to trance. His work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, 19th-Century Music, American Music, Modernism/Modernity, ECHO: a music-centered journal, and the collection Rethinking Music.

Andrew Hewitt Germanic Languages
Interests include the cultural theory of the Frankfurt School, Russian Formalism, French Structuralism, deconstruction, and Marxist theory. Publications include Fascist Modernism; andPolitical Inversions. A third book on "social choreography" is in progress.

Katherine King

Kathleen L. Komar Depts of Comparative Literature  & Germanic Languages (Ph.D., Princeton) Komar has published on a wide variety of topics from Romanticism to the present in both American and German literature. Her books include Pattern and Chaos: Multilinear Novels by Dos Passos, Faulkner, Döblin, and Koeppen (1983), and Transcending Angels: Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies" (1987). She co-edited with Ross Shideler the volume Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformations (1998). She is currently at work on a book entitled, Re-Visions of the Women of the Trojan War: Contemporary Women Writers Rewrite Helen and Klytemnestra. Her recent publications focus on contemporary women authors such as Christa Wolf, Bessie Head, Ingeborg Bachmann, Monique Wittig, and Christa Reinig, as well as male authors such as Rilke, Stevens, Faulkner, James, Brecht, and Broch. Komar has also published articles on the status of feminist studies in the academy and the current status of Comparative Literature as a discipline. A recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989, Professor Komar's classes include courses on feminist theory, modernism, and contemporary women's literature.

Efraín Kristal

Peter Loewenberg Department of History
Professor Loewenberg is author of Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach (1983, 1985, 1996), Fantasy and Reality in History (1995) and numerous articles on history, political psychology, psychoanalysis, and their relationship to each other including: "Psychoanalysis, Between Therapy and Hermeneutics," in Peter Brooks, ed., Whose Freud: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999); "Psychoanalysis and Nationalism," in Nancy Ginsburg, ed., Psychoanalysis and Culture in Our Fin de Siècle (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); "The Nation at War: Defensive and Offensive Modes of National Self-Assertion," in Hartmut lehmann and Hermann Wellenreuther, eds., German and American Nationalism in Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1998); "The Psychodynamics of Nationalism" in History of European Ideas, Vol. 15, No. 1-3 (August 1992), 93-103.

Susan McClary Department of Musicology
(Ph.D., Harvard) Specializes in the cultural criticism of music, both the European canon and contemporary popular genres. McClary is author of Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (University of Minnesota Press, 1991), Georges Bizet: Carmen (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (University of California Press, 2000), is co-editor with Richard Leppert of Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception (Cambridge University Press, 1987). She co-edits the Music/Culture series at Wesleyan University Press, and serves on the editorial boards of Signs, Perspectives of New Music, Black Music Research Journal, Women and Music, and ECHO: a music-centered journal. She was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1995.

Vincent Pecora

Donald Preziosi Department of Art History
Books include: Architecture, Language, and Meaning (Mouton, The Hague), 1979; The Semiotics of the Built Environment (Indiana Univ Press, Bloomington & London), 1979; Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science (Yale University Press, New Haven & London), 1989; Brain of the Earth's Body: Museums & the Fabrication of Modernity (Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis & London, 1999). Articles include: "Semiotics, Art History & Materialism" (Anthropologika 7, 1985); "Between Power & Desire: The Margins of the City" (Glyph Textual Studies, 1986); "Structure as Power: The Mechanisms of Urban Meaning" (Espaces et Societies, 1986); "La Vi(ll)e en Rose: Reading Jameson Mapping Space" (Strategies1, 1988); "Oublier la Citta" (Strategies 3, 1990); "Modernity Again: The Museum as Trompe-L'Oeil" (in P.Brunette & D.Wills, eds., Deconstruction & the Visual Arts: Art, Media, Architecture, 1993); "Museology and Museography" (The Art Bulletin, Mar 1995); "Performing Modernity: The Art of Art History," in A. Jones & A. Stephenson, eds., Performing the Body / Performing the Text (London, Routledge, 1998); "Benjamin Through the Museum," in A.Coles, ed., The Optic of Walter Benjamin, special issue of the journal De-, Dis-, Ex-,Vol. 3 (London, Routledge, 1999).

Anthony Vidler Department of Art History
Scholarly publications include: L'Espace des lumières. Architecture et philosophie de Ledoux à Fourier, Paris: Picard, 1995 ; New French edition of The Writing of the Walls, completely revised with additional chapter and new preface; The Architectural Uncanny. Essays in the Modern Unhomely, Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1992; Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Regime, Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1990; The Writing of the Walls. Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment, Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1987; paper, 1990 Ledoux, Paris: Editions Hazan, 1987; Foreign Editions: Berlin, 1989; Tokyo, 1989; Madrid, 1994.

Francophone and Postcolonial Studies

Edward A. Alpers Department of History
(Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). Fields of interest: Eastern Africa, Indian Ocean world, African diaspora. Research and writing focus on the political economy of international trade in eastern Africa through the nineteenth century, including the cultural dimensions of this exchange system and its impact on gender relations, with special attention to the wider world of the western Indian Ocean. Professor Alpers has published Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa (1975) and a wide range of chapters in books and scholarly articles.   He has co-edited with William Worger and Nancy Clark Africa and the West: A Documentary history from the Slave Trade to Independence (2001), and with Vijaya Teelock History, Memory, and Identity: The Origins of Mauritian Slaves (2001).  He is currently writing a political economy of eastern Tanzania in the nineteenth century while at the same time engaged in a long-term study of the African diaspora in the Indian Ocean. He will also be writing a text entitled The African Diaspora: A Global Perspective.

Ali Behdad Department of English
(Ph.D., Michigan) Behdad is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (Duke, 1994). He specializes in 19^th and 20^th century British and French Literature, postcolonial theory, nationalism and Immigration. He has written widely on the literature of Empire and on 19^th century Orientalist photography in the Middle East. He is currently working on "Forgetful Nation: Reflections on Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States," a study of the relationship between immigration as a cultural and political phenomenon and nationalism.

Ghislaine Lydon Department of History
(Ph.D., Michigan State) Fields of interest: nineteenth and twentieth century Western Africa (pre-colonial and colonial, francophone), family, finance and business history. Her dissertation is entitled "On Trans-Saharan Trails: Trading Networks and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Western Africa, 1840s-1930s."; It covers a large area encompassing Mauritania and the bordering regions of northwestern Mali, southern Morocco and northern Senegal. Lydon's publications include articles on women in francophone West Africa in the 1930s in Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines (1997), in an edited volume entitled French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front, Tony Chafer & Amanda Sackur (eds.), London: Macmillan Press (1999), and in Democracy and Development in Mali, J. Bingen, D. Robinson & J. Staatz (eds), Michigan State University Press (2000). She has also written an article on the first western-style bank established in francophone West  Africa ("Les péripéties d'une institution financière: La Banque du Sénégal 1844-1901," Réalités et Héritages: Sociétés Ouest-Africaines et Ordre Colonial, 1895-1960,   Charles Becker, Saliou Mbaye & Ibrahima Thioub (eds.), Dakar: Archives Nationales du Sénégal, 1997).   Her most recent article ("Slavery, Exchange and Islamic Law in Nineteenth Century Sahara"), soon to be published in the proceedings of a conference on slavery in the Muslim world, measures the distance between precept and practice in the application of Islamic law with regards to transactions in slaves in nineteenth century western Africa.

Aamir Mufti Department of Comparative Literature
(M.A. and M.Phil. in Anthropology, Columbia; Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia) Specializes in colonial and postcolonial literatures, with a primary focus on India and Britain. As an undergraduate, he studied Anthropology for a year at the London School of Economics. His interests range over such issues as Marxism and aesthetics, genre theory, canonization, minority cultures, exile and displacement, the cultural politics of Jewish identity in Western Europe, human rights, refugees and the right to asylum, modernism and fascism, language conflicts, and the history of Anthropology. A book, "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and Dilemmas in Postcolonial Culture" is forthcoming from Princeton, and a co-edited volume, "Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives," appeared from Minnesota in 1997. Articles on such subjects as secularism, minority culture, blasphemy and literature, the post-literate public sphere, literary criticism and social critique, and the short story in Urdu literature have appeared in such journals as "Social Text," "Critical Inquiry," and "Subaltern Studies." He has long been a member of the editorial collective of the journal "Social Text" and is now also affiliated with "boundary2."

Jenny Sharpe Department of English
(Ph.D., U of Texas) Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. She is the author of an influential study of colonial literature, Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text (Minnesota, 1993) which combines interpretive analyses of British novels in relation to the both India and the West Indies. She is currently working on The Haunting of History: A Literary Archeology of Slave Women's Lives in which she discusses the negotiated practices that slave women employed in the Caribbean. Her interests embrace the long historical perspective on colonial and postcolonial studies.

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