Andrea Goulet

Associate Professor of Romance Languages

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French Fiction, critical
theory, science and literature, detective fiction, nouveau roman.  She is the author of Optiques:  the Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction (Penn, 2006) and has co-edited journal issues on “Visual Culture” (Contemporary French Civilization) and “Crime Fictions” (Yale French Studies).  Her current book project explores scientific discourses of space (cartography, geology, geography) in modern French crime fiction from Gaboriau to Vargas.  Her seminars and graduate courses include “Crime and the City in 19th -c. France,” “Science and Literature in France across the Ages,” “Hugo et Balzac,” and “Espaces littéraires:  Spatial Theory and Modern French Fiction.”

• E-mail: agoulet@sas.upenn.edu
• Office: 545 Williams Hall
• Telephone: (215) 573-5497
• Fax: (215) 898-0933
• Office Hours: Fall 2009: T 10-11; R 1:30-2:30