Department of French

Congratulations to George Hoffmann, PhD UVA 1990 and Professor of French at U Michigan, on winning the MLA's prestigious Scaglione Prize for his latest book, Reforming French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, & Connection to Strangers, Oxford, 2017.  George’s first book, Montaigne’s Career, Oxford, 1998, also won the Scaglione Prize.  

A new book celebrates the career of retired faculty member Mary B. McKinley. Of the twenty scholars represented, no less than half have a connection with the UVA French department. All three editors and five contributors are former doctoral students of Mary; two contributors (Gary Ferguson and Karen James) are current department members.

For further details, see

http://www.brill.com/products/book/itineraries-french-renaissance-literature

The UVA Department of French is hosting The 43rd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS) Colloquium at Omni Hotel on the Downtown Mall (Nov. 9-11).  Founded in 1974, the association holds an annual meeting in the autumn of each year, in which researchers present their current work in  the literature, history, arts, and cultures of France and the French-speaking world. This year's theme, "Style,"  embraces the often intersecting topics of fashion, lifestyle, self-expression, reading, writing, and poetics.