DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Fay Rosner (PhD, University of Chicago) holds a joint appointment as a Weinberg College Adviser and Professor of Instruction in French. She teaches interdisciplinary courses on literature and the arts, including the first-year seminars, “Artists in Dialogue: Music, Painting, and Literature in Nineteenth-century Paris;”  “Music, Painting, and Theatre in ‘In Search of Lost Time;’”  as well as a 200-level course, “Scandal in Modern France.”  Previously she has taught French 115, 121, and 125.  She has twice presented at the American Association of Teachers of French national conference, most recently giving a talk on “Teaching Haiti in the Era of Black Lives Matter,” a new unit of French 201 she designed. She has also presented at The Language Symposium at the University of Chicago and was an invited presenter at workshop for graduate students at the University of Chicago’s Center for Teaching on designing and teaching the introductory course.

Her literary research focuses on the relationship between sociology and art in the work of Marcel Proust. She has twice presented her work at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, most recently a paper on Baudelaire’s conception of the dandy as critiqued by Proust. Previous work includes talks an international conference on “Proust and His Era,” hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana, and at the Philosophy and Literature workshop at the University of Chicago.   

While completing her graduate studies at the University of Chicago, she was awarded a Whiting Dissertation Fellowship as well as the Backus Prize in French Language and Literature.  She holds a B.A. in French with highest distinction, and B.S. in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and also studied at the Sorbonne during her junior year in Paris.