French Faculty

Ralph Albanese       HOMEPAGE
Department Chair
Professor of French
The University of Memphis - 1990
  • BA (1966), Queens College
  • MA (1968), Queens College
  • PhD (1972), Yale University

Areas of Interest: seventeenth-century French literature, socio-critique, and the history of French education

Courses taught:
FREN 4302/FREN 6302, Advanced French Grammar
FREN 7305, French Stylistics
FREN 7425, Classicism Prior to 1660
FREN 7426, Classicism After 1660

Dunn Hall Room 375A
901-678-2507
ralbanes@memphis.edu

Denis D. Grélé
Assistant Professor of French
The University of Memphis - 2007
  • BA (1991), Université de Caen
  • MA (1994), Université de Caen
  • PhD (1999), New York University

Areas of Interest: Utopian Studies, French Cultural Studies, Classical Theatre, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Courses taught:
FREN 2010, Intermediate French I
FREN 2020, Intermediate French II
FREN 4413-6413, Nineteenth Century French Literature
FREN 7531, Age Of Enlightenment

Dunn Hall Room 388
901-678-2509
ddgrele@memphis.edu

William Hendel
Instructor of French
The University of Memphis - 2006
  • BA (1996), University of California, Berkeley
  • MA (1999), University of California, Los Angeles
  • PhD (2007), University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Literature, European Philosophy and History of Ideas, Rhetoric of Narrative Form, Aesthetics, Garden History

Dunn Hall Room 331
901-678-2501
whendel@memphis.edu

Susan M. Johnson
Associate Professor of French
The University of Memphis - 1985
  • BA (1973), University of Chicago
  • MA (1975), Michigan State University
  • MLS, PhD (1983), Indiana University
Areas of Interest: Medieval Literature, Old French Lyric, History of the French Language, Linguistics

Dunn Hall Room 394
901-678-3154
smjhnsn1@memphis.edu

Errol M. O'Neill     HOMEPAGE
Instructor of French
The University of Memphis - 2008
  • BA (1997), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  • MA (2000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • ABD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Areas of Interest: Online Translation, Instructional Technology, English-Language Influence on French Terminology

Courses taught:
FREN 1010, Elementary French I
FREN 1020, Elementary French II
FREN 2010, Intermediate French I
FREN 3791, French for Commerce I
FREN 7101, French/Business & Economics

Dunn Hall Room 331
901-678-2501
emoneill@memphis.edu

Susan K. Silver
Associate Professor of French
The University of Memphis - 2000
  • BA (1982), University of Southwest Louisiana
  • MA (1991), University of Southwest Louisiana
  • PhD (1996), Tulane University
Areas of Interest: French Renaissance and Baroque Literature, Early Modern Women Writers, Early Modern Cultural Studies

Dunn Hall Room 327
901-678-3150
ssilver@memphis.edu

　 Jan Starczewski
Instructor of French
The University of Memphis - 2008
  • BA (2004), Nice
  • MA (2007), University of Memphis

Dunn Hall Room 331
901-678-2501
jstrczws@memphis.edu

William Thompson
Associate Professor of French
Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
The University of Memphis - 1989
  • BA (1983), McMaster University, Canada
  • MA (1984), McMaster University, Canada
  • PhD (1989), Cornell University

Areas of Interest: Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, Twentieth-Century French Literature, Business French Pedagogy

Courses taught:
FREN 4414/6414, Twentieth-Century French Literature
FREN 4413/6413, Nineteenth-Century French Literature
FREN 3792, French for Commerce II [Contemporay France and the Francophone World]

Scates Hall Room 384
901-678-3372/3160
wjthmpsn@memphis.edu