Maxime Foerster

Associate Professor of French French Area Chair Faculty Advisor, French Club

World Languages and Literatures, French

Email

mfoerster@smu.edu

Office Location

Clements 308D

Phone

214-768-1691

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); Master in Management, École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Paris, France

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Areas of Interest

  • Modern and contemporary France
  • Vampirism
  • Social Justice
  • French Romanticism and Decadence
  • Gender and sexuality studies
  • French cinema

Publications

  • “Nice ou la ville-plaisirs dans L’Insouciance de Philippe Mezescaze” in Visages des villes de la Renaissance à nos jours, eds. Olfa Abrougui and Senda Souabni Jlidi. Paris: L’Harmattan, November 2023. 51-66.

  • “Fortunio, le dandy d’Inde,” in L’Artiste de la vie moderne. Le dandy entre littérature et histoire, ed. Edyta KociubiÅ„ska. Leiden: Brill Publishers, July 2023. 15-31. 

  • “Chemsex et littérature française,” in Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 47, no. 4, December 2022. 421-442.

  • “From Cabaret to the Classroom: Bambi’s Professional Transition,” in Taking Up Space’: Women at Work in Contemporary France, eds. Bouamer, Siham and Sonja Stojanovic. University of Wales Press, November 2022. 286-306.

  • “Précarité et filiation queer dans Eastern Boys, de Robin Campillo” in CFC Intersections, vol. 1, no. 1, Fall 2022.135-145.

  • “Rencontre du dandy et de la diva: la momification réinventée dans Le Château des Carpathes, de Jules Verne, in French Forum, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring 2022. 75-90.
  • “Les femmes transgenres face au sida dans Le Gai cimetière de Marie-Pierre Pruvot,” in Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 46, no. 2, June 2021. 197-211.
  • La bromance dans la littérature française au XIXesiècle,” in Littératures, vol. 81, June 2020. 89-102.
  • (2018, University of Massachusetts Press).

Awards

  • Bill Beauchamp Award 2022
  • Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Award 2021

Courses Taught

  • FREN 3386: Love in French Literature and Philosophy
  • FREN 4361: French Decadence
  • FREN 4362: Social Justice in 19th-century French Literature
  • FREN 4366: Contemporary French Literature
  • FREN 4372: Vampirism in French Literature and Cinema
  • FREN 4375: French Civilization
  • FREN 4377: French Conversation
  • FREN 4395: French and Francophone Women Writers
  • HIST/HRTS 3317: Sexual Minorities and Human Rights
  • WL 3327: Les Misérables
  • WGST 3340: Intro to Transgender Studies

Maxime Foester