French Faculty
Full Time Faculty
Paul Fadoul
Lecturer
Queens Hall 205J
718-997-5982
paul.fadoul@qc.cuny.edu
Paul Fadoul is a Lecturer at Queens College-CUNY. His dissertation, How to be a French Jew: Proust, Lazare, Glissant (August 2016), puts in relation Marcel Proust and Edouard Glissant and challenges the hierarchical division between an author from the French canon and one from the ‘francophonie’. His research interests include French Literature, Jewish Studies, the French Caribbean, and francophone writers from Africa and the Levant.
Régine Isabelle Joseph
Assistant Professor, French Undergraduate Advisor
Queens Hall 330E
718-997-5297
regine.joseph@qc.cuny.edu
Régine Isabelle Joseph specializes in francophone literature, postcolonial studies, feminism, and the political histories of the French Caribbean. She is presently finishing a book manuscript – Culture and Duvalierism – that focuses on the literary responses to the rising suppression of radical politics in mid-20th-century Haiti.
Her recent archival work and forthcoming article on Marie Chauvet and Simone de Beauvoir (Yale French Studies, 2016) belong to her second book project – Haiti’s Second Sex – which examines the politics of the literary market and the publication of French and Francophone women writers.
Dr. Joseph holds an AB in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, and a PhD in French Literature from New York University.
Joseph Sungolowsky
Professor Emeritus
Queens Hall 205M
718-997-5653
joseph.sungolowsky@qc.cuny.edu
Joseph Sungolowsky is a graduate of the Lycée Masséna (Nice, France). He holds a Baccalauréat-ès-Lettres, a BA (Yeshiva University), an MA (New York University) and a PhD (Yale University). He is the author of Alfred de Vigny et le dix-huitième siècle (Paris, Nizet) and Beaumarchais (New York, Twayne) and of studies on Flaubert, Zola, Romain Gary, I.B. Singer, Chaim Grade and the French Jewish writer Edmond Fleg. He has contributed chapters to the following volumes: “Holocaust and Autobiography, Wiesel, Friedlander, Pisar,” in Literature of the Holocaust. Ed. Harold Bloom; “The Jewishness of Primo Levi,” in The Legacy of Primo Levi. Ed. Stanislao Pugliesi ; and “André Neher et Eretz Israël, » in La Pensée Juive Contemporaine. Ed. Danielle Delmaire. He teaches courses on the sixteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth century French Literature as well as courses on French Civilization and Advanced French Grammar and Translation. He was named a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques (Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms) by the French government.
David Andrew Jones
Associate Professor
Queens Hall 330C1
718-997-5996
david.jones@qc.cuny.edu
Professor Jones holds the BA from Washington University in St. Louis, as well as the MA and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He specializes in 20th century narrative, theater, and critical theory. His book, Blurring Categories of Identity in Contemporary French Literature: Jean Genet’s Subversive Discourse explores the ways in which Genet’s fiction and theater deconstruct binary oppositions in their exploration of identity. Professor Jones currently serves as Special Assistant to the Provost for Curriculum in addition to teaching in the French program.
Karen Sullivan
Associate Professor, French Graduate Advisor
Queens Hall 205F1
718-997-5652
karen.sullivan@qc.cuny.edu
Karen Sullivan (PhD, Columbia University; Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies, Maîtrise, Licence: Lettres modernes, Licence: Sciences du Langage, D.E.U.G, Université de Paris III, exchange fellowship Ecole Normale Supérieure) is a scholar of eighteenth and twentieth century French literature who has authored a book on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, articles on second-language pedagogy and Early-Modern Feminist writing, and co-authored and edited a book on Rousseau’s re-interpretation of the Bible. A native-born New Yorker (from the Bronx), she has studied and worked in France and in Senegal, where she was the Press Attachée for the U.S. Embassy in Dakar. She is a recipient of the QC President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2011). Since Fall 2000, she has participated actively in the revival of the Queens College French Program where she teaches a wide range of undergraduate and Masters-level courses in French literature (ranging from Renaissance literature to contemporary French and Francophone literature) as well as French language courses at all levels. Her research interests include seventeenth and eighteenth-century French literature, critical second language pedagogy, and feminist perspectives on literature and the arts in Ancien Régime France.
She is preparing a book-length project on works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Adjunct Faculty
Souad Bouhayat
Queens Hall 205L
718-997-5984
souad.bouhayat@qc.cuny.edu
Yves Cloarec
Queens Hall 205L
718-997-5984
yves.cloarec@qc.cuny.edu
Monique Herard
Queens Hall 205L
718-997-5984
monique.herard@qc.cuny.edu
Ann Marie Raymundo
Queens Hall 205L
718-997-5984
annmarie.raymundo@qc.cuny.edu
Blanche Zahran
Queens Hall 205L
718-997-5984
blanche.zahran@qc.cuny.edu