French Faculty
Department chair: Michael Mosier | Contact info
Faculty
Devan Baty
Professor of French
Research and teaching interests: Early Modern French Literature, Postcolonial Francophone Perspectives. Baty teaches courses in the following interdisciplinary programs: Medieval and Early Modern Studies, International Relations, and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin; M.A. and B.A., University of Iowa
Helene Sicard-Cowan
Lecturer
A specialist in immigrant literatures and cinemas in the French context with a Ph.D. in French Literature and a French M.A. in German Studies, Hélène’s current research interests include the vexed relations between nineteenth-century literatures (mostly French and American) and experimental life sciences, the environmental humanities (including animal studies), as well as ways of knowing, relating, communicating and healing in the “Western” world and beyond. In addition, she is an emerging poet, as well as an aspiring writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and her first book of poetry, Heart Openers, will be published by Green Writers Press. Courses that she will be teaching at Cornell in 2023 are French 101, 102 and 103.
Rebecca Wines
Associate Professor of French
Research interests: Twentieth-century French and Francophone literatures, French and Francophone film, gender studies, and sports studies. Wines also teaches courses in certain interdisciplinary programs: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; International Relations; Ethnic Studies. Ph.D. and M.A., University of Michigan; B.A., Whitman College
Emeriti
Diane Crowder
Professor of French and Women's Studies Emerita
B.S., Texas Christian University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.