Barbara Abrams

Associate Professor of French and Humanities

office: Fenton 538

voicemail: (617) 573-8284

Professor Abrams holds a B.A. in French Literature from the University of Wisconsin (1978), a Diplôme Avancé de langue et de civilisation Françaises from the Institut Catholique de Paris (1980), a M.S.W. from Loyola University of Chicago (1982), a Diplôme de pédagogie Française (1984) and Magistère de langue et de civilisation Françaises (1985) from the Sorbonne (Paris IV), a M.A. in French Literature from the University of Cincinnati (1986), and a M.Phil. (1989) and Ph.D. (2000) in French Literature from Columbia University. She has taught at the University of Cincinnati, Columbia University and Bentley College, served as Head Teaching Fellow at Harvard University between 1989 and 1997, and held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Chicago in 2000-2001. Her academic honors include Derek Bok awards for Excellence in Teaching (Harvard, 1993-94), a Mention Très Bien from the Sorbonne (1985), a Michael Reese Sterling Fund Scholarship (1982-84), and an Illinois Institute of Mental Health Research Grant (1982). Professor Abrams’ recent publications focus on the French literature of the Enlightenment, especially the works of Dennis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Professor Abrams also directs the Suffolk intensive French program in Vichy France.