Faculty

Academic Interests: French intellectual and cultural history, 1890s-1940s

Research:

• Theater and Politics, 1914-1918
• Jean-Richard Bloch: Writings on Theater and Politics, 1910-1930s.
• French Intellectuals and World War I.
• French Intellectual/Writers and the Dreyfus Affair.
• The Jewish Question: The Writings of Romain Rolland and Jean-Richard Bloch.

Publications:

(Books) critical editions of two unpublished correspondences:

1. Une si fidèle amitié: Correspondance entre Romain Rolland et Charles Baudouin (Choix de lettres), 1916-1944 (Lyon: Cesura, 2000); and
2. Correspondance entre Charles Andler et Lucien Herr, 1891-1926 (Paris: Presses de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1992).

(articles on):

Franco-German intellectual relations, 1890s-1920s (Lucien Herr, Charles Andler); on French intellectuals (Romain Rolland, Lucien Herr) and the Dreyfus Affair; on Romain Rolland and WWI; on the communist novelist, essayist and playwright Jean-Richard Bloch; and on the Jewish question (Romain Rolland, J.-R. Bloch).