People Type: Emeriti

Biography William J. Berg was a member of the Department of French and Italian from 1967 to 2009. He continues to hold an honorary faculty appointment and remains active in publishing and professional activities. In addition to winning several teaching and research awards, he has authored, coauthored, or translated eleven books, five study guides, and …

Biography Primary Language French Specialties and Areas of Research Interest Globalization and higher education; European social, cultural and institutional issues;  French for business and economics; 19th- and 20th-century French cultural studies.

Biography Keith Busby is Douglas Kelly Professor of Medieval French Emeritus and Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. His previous positions were at the Universities of Utrecht and Leiden, The Netherlands, and the University of Oklahoma. He has held visiting appointments at The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the Universities of Bristol and Durham (UK), …

Biography Primary Language Italian

Biography Primary Language French Specialties and Areas of Research Interest Late 16th-century and 17th-century literature. French studies, especially baroque fiction and poetry; women writers; libertine writers. Teaching and Research Interests: Martine Debaisieux taught courses in French literature and culture as well as in advanced French grammar and stylistics.  Her teaching interests also include filmic adaptations.  …

Biography Primary Language French Specialties and Areas of Research Interest 17th-century French theater; 19th and 20th-century narrative; Symbolist poetry; French film; intertextuality; Greek tragedy; psychological approaches to literature; philosophy and literature; mathematics and literature. Teaching and research interests: Richard Goodkin has taught and done research in the areas of seventeenth-century, nineteenth-century, and twentieth-century French literature, …

Biography Primary Language French Specialties and Areas of Research Interest French Phonetics; 19th and 20th-century French society and culture; the use of technology in teaching French as a second language. Distinctions

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Biography Christopher Kleinhenz is the Carol Mason Kirk Professor Emeritus of Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught Italian literature of the Due- and Trecento, manuscript studies, and art and literature in medieval Italy for almost forty years (1968-2007). Among his numerous publications are The Early Italian Sonnet, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, a translation of …

Biography Primary Language French Specialties and Areas of Research Interest 16th-century poetry and prose; Renaissance intellectual history (especially moral philosophy and political theory). Teaching and Research Interests: My teaching ranges from all areas of 16th-century literature in France, to Italian literature (Petrarch, Ariosto, Castiglione), Ancien Régime social and cultural history, and modern and current French …