Jean-François Fourny

Associate Professor of French
390 Cunz Hall
Office hours: R, 1:30-2:30
Phone: (614) 292-9782
E-mail: fourny.1@osu.edu

Interests: French History, Culture, and Society; European Studies

Selected Courses Taught:

French 440: Introduction to the Study of French Cultures

French 644: French Civilization Since WWII

French 741: La Belle Epoque

French 741: France, Germany, and the Idea of Europe

French 833: Surrealism

Selected Publications:

Books:

Introduction à la lecture de Georges Bataille. New York/Bern: Peter Lang, 1988.

Co-editor: Situating Sartre in Twentieth-Century Thought and Culture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Special Issues of Journals Edited:

Co-editor: Contemporary French Civilization, special issue on "Cultural Studies, Cultural Wars." Summer/Fall 1997.

Co-editor, L'Esprit Créateur, special issue on "French Women of the Belle Epoque." Winter 1997.

Co-editor: Research in African Literatures, special issue on "Multiculturalism", Winter 1997.

Co-editor: Bulletin de la SociétéAméricaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, special issue on "Michel Foucault," Spring 1994.

Co-editor: L'Esprit Créateur, special issue on "The Occupation in French Literatre and Film," Spring 1993.

Guest editor: Contemporary French Civilization, special issue on "Mitterrand II," Summer/Fall 1991.

Guest editor: Stanford French Review, special issue on Georges Bataille, Spring 1988.

Professor Fourny is also the author of over thirty-five articles on topics such as surrealism, Georges Bataille, fashion, multiculturalism, Pierre Bourdieu, francophone Egyptian literature, and the European Union.