Françoise Gaillard
Visiting Professor

Françoise Gaillard, one of France's most prominent literary critics, Gaillard teaches at the Université de Paris VII. She is the author of innumerable studies of nineteenth-century French literature in its broadest social, political, and cultural context. Professor Gaillard is particularly interested in questions of ideology and epistemology, especially in fin-de-siècle France. Professor Gaillard has broad expertise in contemporary cultural issues and is frequently a participant in debates and programs on French Culture as well as in special public symposia. She has organized a series of debates on literature and philosophy at the Centre Georges Pompidou, collaborated for many years in the reviews La Quinzaine Littéraire and Canal (a review of contemporary art) and contributed to Le Monde des débats. She is a frequent contributer to the seminars organized as Cerisy-la-Salle and serves on the editorial board of Romantisme, Etudes françaises, Esprit, Cahiers de méthodologie, and Crises. She is a member of several research teams at the CNRS. Professor Gaillard was a Visiting Professor of French at Northwestern during the Fall of 2000 when she taught an undergraduate seminar entitled "Faire Fortune" and a graduate seminar, "Penser la fin du siècle" and again in Fall 2002.