Hamid Bahri is a recent Ph.D. in French and literature, with specialization on North Africa. HIs scholarly interests include: Arab women’s writings, exile, Diaspora, cultural studies, and translation theory in French and Arabic texts.
His most recent publication is: “Father-daughter relations in the Francophone Maghrebian novel: Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine” in “Francographies,” the journal of the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique (SPFFA), May 2005.
Recent conferences include “The Colonial Language and Modern Arab Writing: Ambivalence, Identity and Agency” at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 18-21, Boston Massachusetts 2006, and
“The Rise of the Arab Novel in English” at the MLA conference in Philadelphia, December, 2006.

Glenn Fetzer's most recent publications include two books: Emmanuel Hocquard and the Poetics of Negative Modernity (Birmingham: Summa Publications, 2004) and  Palimpsests of the Real in Recent French Poetry (Amsterdam:  Rodopi [Chiasma Series], 2004); as well as several articles, including “L’Elégie en jeu chez Emmanuel Hocquard,” in an issue on  “Elégies ” Babel 12 (2005) 287-297 and “Claudel lecteur de Saint-John Perse,” in Paul Claudel Papers Vol. 3, July 2005 : 59-71.

Jeanne Fuchs has worked as a consultant to the Dean of Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She has presented a paper entitled, "Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Native Son," in Vevey, Switzerland at the 7th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, June 27-July 3, 2004.  

Donna Kuizenga's recent publications include a book: Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins), Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière: A Novel. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr., Eds. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004).

Catherine Liu's most recent publications include two books: Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).

She has published articles including, "To Catch a Falling Star: Political Ambiguity or Jacques Lacan Meets Andy Warhol" Cambridge Companion to Lacan (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and "Getting to the Photo-Finish:  Photography, Autobiography, Modernity" The Medium. ed. Andrew McNamara and Peter Krapp. special edition of South Atlantic Quarterly, 2002.

Alison is working on a book project, The Shadow of Dante in Maurice Scève’s Poetry, which stems from her dissertation. She is also publishing an article on Pierre Boaistuau’s Théâtre du monde (1558), and is also contributing an article on Renaissance orientalism in France to a forthcoming book on French orientalism. Alison’s interests include Maurice Scève; Dante and Petrarch; constructions of rhetoric and genre in Renaissance texts; humanism; evolving views of women; early modern transfigurations of ancient pagan ideas; literary imitation; and mysticism.

Before joining the faculty at Ohio Wesleyan University in fall 2007, Alison taught freshman humanities at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow for two years. Prior to that, she was a Senior Communication Fellow at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute of Baruch College, CUNY. She holds a BA in Religion from Barnard College of Columbia University.

Mario Macaluso has published a book, Prickly Pears and Oleanders (Authorhouse, 2002).

Binita Mehta has published Widows, Pariahs, and ‘Bayadères’: India as Spectacle (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2002).
Her recent talks include: “Names, Places, Identities: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake," Faculty Lecture Series, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, on April 6, 2005.
She also Co-organized the joint Manhattanville College-SUNY Purchase Interdisciplinary Conference on the 200^th anniversary of Haitian independence, at   Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, on October 29, 2004.
Binita Mehta was invited to the Graduate Center French Department to give a lecture on French pedagogy, as part of our Colloquium Series on Pedagogy, in December 2006.

Amalia Rechtman is currently in Paris, where she teaches courses at the Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Juives Elie Weisel.
Her publications include: Child Survivors of the Holocaust : Literature, Trauma, Memory. Ed. Insitute for Holocaust Studies Series (2006), and American Writers, Child Holocaust Survivors and the representation of the War Experience and its impact on their Lives and Work. Ed. Université Paris X - Nanterre (October 2006).
In October of 2006 she presented at a colloquium organised by the University of Paris X-Nanterre's Anglo-American Studies program. Her presentation was entitled, "Reflet des difficultés des survivants de la Shoah en Israel dans leurs oeuvres littéraires."

Maria-Luisa's research focuses on literature and cultural connections between France and its colonies at the beginning of the 20th century, and contemporary Francophone women writers. She is the author of two books: Parole d’Alberta (2001, poetry) and Là où elle devient Méla (2004, novella).
She is the cofounder of Rivarticollection (see web site at www.rivarticollection.com), the publishing branch of a nonprofit organization that promotes Francophone books and writers in the US.
Maria-Luisa's recent professional activities include co-authoring a play that was presented at the Avignon Theater Festival in July 2006.
Her most recent publications include "La Proclamation d’indépendance haïtienne : fiction et matrice littéraire", forthcoming in the next issue of La Revue de recherche haïtiano-Antillaise, Paris, l’Harmattan, and
“Redefining the Concept of God : A Review of Yván Silén’s La Muerte de Mamá" in Calabash, A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters, 3:2 (Fall-Winter 2005).
Her most recent conference presentations include a paper given at the March 2007 NEMLA Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, entitled "La maison, la voiture et l’enfant: mondes de Duras, Duras de tous les mondes."
She participated in a panel entitled "Difficult subjects: Caribbean Women Writers on Power and Abuse" at the CUNY Conference on the African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas, hosted by Hostos College, in November of 2006.
In May of 2005, she was the invited presenter of Yván Silén’s novel La Muerte de mamá at Lectorum, a Spanish language bookstore in Manhattan. Also in May of 2005, Maria-Luisa participated in the round table on Haitian literature at the Haitian book fair at York College, where she read some excerpts from her book Là où elle devient Méla.