Associate Professor of French

Year Joined RCNJ: 1998

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684- 7417
• Email: vflenga@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-133
• Office Hours: MR 11:00-11:15 am; 1:00-2:15 pm
• Department Website

Education:

• Maitrise des Sciences de l’Education, Universit é de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
• Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies de Litterature Francaise et Comparee, Universit é de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
• Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures (French), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Courses Offered:

• All levels of French language and literature
• Literary Theory and Criticism
• Modem Novel in France
• Existentialism
• Black Odyssey
• Post-Modernism (Literature Seminar)

Teaching Interests:

• 20th century French literature
• Literary Theory and Criticism
• Post-modem writers
• Classical and Modem Drama.

Research Interests:

• Contemporary literary figures such as Camus, Ionesco, Duras and Genet

Scholarly Activity:

Articles

• “Αυτοσχεδια διαβαση: Θεαμα και ηχος οτο L’Impromptu d’Ohio του Beckett.” (Impromptu Passage: Vision and Voice in Beckett’s L’impromptu d’Ohio) Θεατρογραφιες (Theatrographies)14 (2006): 30-35.

Conference Papers

• “Cinematography of a Death Sentence in J. Genet’s Le Bagne.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association: Capitals. New York University, New York, March 20-23, 2014
• “Return to the Penal Colony.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association: Global Positioning Systems, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 4-7, 2013.
• “Genet’s Aporia.”  Languages and Cultures of Conflicts and Atrocities Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, October 11-13, 2012.
• “Ob-scene bodies: Quatre heures à Chatia”; American Comparative Literature Association Convention; Providence RI; March 29-April 1, 2012
• “To Escape the World at Last: Prisoner of Love.” International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece, 18-22 July, 2006.