Critical Theory

The current research of many FRIT faculty members is informed by critical theory. Faculty regularly participate in the annual Critical Theory Lecture Series and many are affiliated with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. See individual profiles for more detail.

Faculty working in Critical Theory

Choix Goncourt 2025: Select the Best French Novel of the Year
The Villa Albertine's Choix Goncourt, or Goncourt Prize Selection, gives...
Professor Emerita Armine Mortimer publishes new translation
Professor Armine Kotin Mortimer, Professor Emerita of French Literature in FRIT, has published the translation of Julia Kristeva’s “Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex” at...
Embassy of France grant to study narratives of racialization in the Mediterranean
Congratulations to Professor Emanuel Rota (FRIT & EUC) and the transatlantic team of researchers associated with the project “Understanding Narratives of Racialization in the Mediterranean”...
Meet our new graduate students
Welcome to this year's incoming graduate students Étienne André, Willie Asamoah, Elena Broscritto, Océane Felisaz, Aaron Koroghlanian, Ari Theodoropoulos, and Jessica...