 Chair: Julia Simon, 512B Sproul Hall, 530-752-8573
jsimon@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D. UC San Diego
Professor of French
She specializes in 18th-century French literature and culture, particularly the work of the philosophes,
with special emphasis on the relevance of Enlightenment social,
political, moral, and aesthetic theory today. She is the author of Beyond Contractual Morality: Ethics, Law, and Literature in Eighteenth-Century France and Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot and is currently working on a project concerning eighteenth-century music theory.
Dr. Simon's personal website
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 Bruce Anderson, 507 Sproul Hall
bcanderson@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., Indiana University - Assistant Professor of French
Language Coordinator, French 1, 21, 22
He specializes in French linguistics, with an emphasis on
generative morphology and syntax, formal approaches to second language
acquisition, applied linguistics, and foreign language pedagogy. His
publications include articles in Second Language Research and Language Acquisition.
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 Nicole Asquith, 509 Sproul Hall
nvasquith@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
University
Assistant Professor of French
Language Coordinator, French 23, 100
Nicole Asquith is a specialist in French poetry from the French Revolution to the present. Her current project examines a twentieth-century debate over the social function of poetry by retracing the legacy of Rimbaud, from Dada to graffiti and rap.
Her teaching interests include French poetry, hip-hop, theater, opera and cultural studies.
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 Jeff Fort, 503 Sproul,
530-752-0708
jpfort@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor of French
He specializes in twentieth century prose, with a special interest in autobiographical
narrative; critical theory, including modern German philosophy from Kant to Heidegger and its French reception;
twentieth century French thought; aesthetics and aesthetic theory. He has translated a number of works by
authors such as Maurice Blanchot, Aminadab; Jean Genet, The Declared Enemy; Jean-Luc Nancy,
The Ground of the Image; and most recently Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Heidegger and the Politics of Poetry.
He is currently working on a study of literary space and the "imperative to write" in Blanchot, Kafka and
Beckett.
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 Noah Guynn, 506 Sproul Hall, 530-754-7839
ndguynn@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., Yale University
Associate Professor of French
Recipient of UC Davis' 2004 Excellence in Teaching Award
Noah Guynn is a specialist in medieval literature, philosophy, and
theology; gay and lesbian studies; and literary and critical theory. His books Allegory and Sexual Ethics
in the High Middle Ages is forthcoming in The New Middle Ages Series at
Palgrave Macmillian.
He is currently working on a second book on ethics and politics in
late-medieval and early-modern theater, especially farce. Guynn's
teaching interests extend from medieval to modern literature, and his
course offerings regularly include a survey of French drama and a large
lecture course on Adam and Eve.
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 Eric Russell Webb, 508 Sproul Hall
erussell@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Assistant Professor of French
Language Coordinator, French 2, 3
Eric Russell Webb specilizes in
phonology and phonetics, focusing on the role of biomechanics in the
grammaticalization of sound structure. He is especially
interested in the evolution of language, the emergence of Creoles and
the interface between related grammars, e.g. Romance, dialect,
register. He has published works in Linguistica Atlantica, The Morphology and Phonology of Creoles, the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies and the Journal of Language and Linguistics, among others.
Dr. Russell's personal website
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