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Lucy S. McNeece
Associate Professor of French
 Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1985
Areas of Expertise
20th Century French and Francophone literature, film and film theory, comparative literature
Contact Information
Office/Hours: Arjona 242 Th 4-7
Phone: 860-486-3314
E-mail: lucy.mcneece@uconn.edu
Website
Bio:
Lucy Stone McNeece is co-Chair of the Program in Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies and Head of the Mideast Studies Center at UConn. She received her PhD from Harvard in 1985 in Romance Literatures. She teaches courses in French and English on the literatures of the Caribbean, Africa, the Maghreb and the Middle East, as well courses in Theater, Film, Film theory and Postcolonial theory. She received and American Institute of Maghreb Studies grant, the Provost’s Large Grant and a Fulbright Research Grant for work in North Africa. She has published on Caribbean, African and North African writers as well as writers of the Near East. Her current research concerns the differing relation between signs and images across cultural boundaries and the impact of ancient traditions upon contemporary authors of the Mediterranean and Arabo-muslim world.
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