Amy Reid
Associate Professor of French Language & Literature
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
A.B., Colgate University
Professor Reid offers courses and tutorials on a wide range of topics in French and francophone literature: the Renaissance; nineteenth-century literary movements; contemporary drama; and francophone writing from Québec, the Caribbean, and Africa. In addition, she teaches courses at all levels of French language and tutorials on translation. She is also active in the Gender Studies Program and offers tutorials on women's writing and feminist theory.
Her publications include articles on the representation of women and women's relationships in the Naturalist novel and on the structure of memory in the works of the Québécoise author Anne Hébert. Her current research considers language and politics in contemporary novels from Cameroon. Her translation of Temps de Chien [Dog Days], a novel by the Cameroonian author Alain-Patrice Nganang, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2006.
Her publications include articles on the representation of women and women's relationships in the Naturalist novel and on the structure of memory in the works of the Québécoise author Anne Hébert. Her current research considers language and politics in contemporary novels from Cameroon. Her translation of Temps de Chien [Dog Days], a novel by the Cameroonian author Alain-Patrice Nganang, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2006.
