Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures,
Associate Professor of French
Andrea Thomas comes from Alameda, California. Her research interests include nineteenth- through twenty-first- century French and Belgian literature, comparative literature, and book history. She especially loves to teach theater and public speaking classes (in French)! Dr. Thomas served as the Director of 91看片鈥檚 Leuven Program, accompanied a student group to France, and now leads an immersion weekend in Montreal each year. She hopes all students can experience life abroad at least once during their time at 91看片.
Education
- New York University, BA, Comparative Literature
- Columbia University, MA, MPhil, PhD, French and Romance Philology
Courses Taught
- FR104 Intermediate French II
- FR216 Highlights in French and Francophone Studies
- FR320 Speak Up!
- FR359 The Fantastic 19th Century
- FR360 Topics in French Theatre鈥�20th century
- FR362 CENSORED [Censorship in 19th-Century France]
- ML307D Topics in Comparative Cultures and Literary Studies
Publications
Books
- Lautr茅amont, Subject to Interpretation. Amsterdam: BRILL | Rodopi, 2015.
Articles
- 鈥淧ublished Belgian-Style: Albert Lacroix, Charles De Coster, Henry Kistemaeckers, Camille Lemonnier, and the Belgian Contribution to French Decadent Aesthetics.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Modern Language Review (MLR) 117.3 (July 2022) 352-370.
- 鈥淛udith Gautier, Vers Libre,and the Faux East.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 72.2 (May 2018) 77-88.
- 鈥淟autr茅amont 脡lectro: une musique faite par tous, non par un.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Revue des Sciences Humaines 314 (avril-juin 2014) 145-160.
- 鈥淢ichel de Ghelderode, the Wooster Group, and postmodernist revisions of La Tentation de saint Antoine.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Orbis Litterarum 67.2 (April 2012) 136-153.
Book Reviews
- Review of Victor Hugo, Jean- Paul Sartre, and the Liability of Liberty byBradley Stephens. Oxford: Legenda, 2011. Nineteenth Century French Studies 41.3-4 (2013): 326-328.
- Review of Le Roman symboliste: un art de l鈥欌�渆xtr锚me conscience鈥� by Val茅rie Michelet Jacquod. Geneva: Droz, 2008. Romanic Review 101.4 (2010): 861-863.
- Review of Ducasse et Lautr茅amont: L鈥檈nvers et l鈥檈ndroit, by Michel Pierssens. Tusson: Presses universitaires de Vincennes et du L茅rot, 2005. Romanic Review 100.3 (2009): 398-400.
Areas of Specialization
- 19th - 21st Century French and Francophone Literature
- Adaptation
- Textual History and Criticism
- French Theatre
Presentations
Presentations at Scholarly Conferences
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS) Conference, 鈥淐osmopolitans vs. Chauvinists in the Second Empire,鈥� New York, New York, November 3-5, 2022.
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS) Conference, 鈥溾�楶utrid Literature鈥� Revisited,鈥� Manhattan Beach, California, October 25-27, 2018.
- International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, 鈥淧ublishing and the Woman Question in the French Second Empire,鈥� Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 4-6, 2018.
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS) Conference, "Naturalism, Published Belgian-Style,鈥� Charlottesville, Virginia, November 9-11, 2017.
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 鈥淒iversifying the Fourth Semester College-Level French Course,鈥� Boston, Massachusetts, November 18-20, 2016.
- Nineteenth Century French Studies (NCFS), 鈥淛udith Gautier and Armchair Escapism,鈥� San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 16-18, 2014.
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies. "Publish, Perish: Fictional Representations of the 脡诲颈迟别耻谤,鈥� New York, New York, March 6-8, 2014.
- Nineteenth Century French Studies (NCFS), 鈥淔ictional biographies of Rimbaud and Lautr茅amont,鈥� Richmond, Virginia, October 24-26, 2013.
Service Activities, Memberships in Academic Societies
Service: College Activities (Representative assignments)
- Faculty Development Advisory Board (2017-2018)
- Honor Council (2013-2015)
- Faculty Handbook and Academic Policies (2013-2015)
- French Club Moderator (2009-2014)
Memberships in Academic Societies
- Modern Language Association
- American Association of Teachers of French
- Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Language