Christophe Wall-Romana

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: French, University of California, Berkeley, 2005

Specialties

• French cinema
• Science and Technology Studies
• Media history
• Modern French poetry
• Silent cinema
• Modern French philosophy and theory
• 19th- & 20th-century French literature and thought

Publications

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Publications

• Wall-Romana, Christophe. Danielle Collobert's Aux environs d'un film: Poetic Writing on the Brink of Cinema. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 9(3), 2005.
• Wall-Romana, Christophe. Mallarmé's Cinepoetics: The Poem Uncoiled by the Cinématographe, 1893-98. PMLA 120.1(1): 128-147, 2005.
• Wall-Romana, Christophe. ""Urbain's Ironic Use of the Word Orientalisme in 1837"." (2004).
• Wall-Romana, Christophe. Jean Epstein, Corporeal Cinema and Film Philosophy. Manchester UP, 2012.
• Wall-Romana, Christophe. Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry. Fordham UP.

Awards

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Awards

• Mellon Fellowship for Humanistic Studies, 1999 - 2000
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2015 - 2016
• Berkeley Graduate Fellowship, 2000 - 2003
• McKnight Land Grant Professorship, 2007 - 2009
• Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities

Courses

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Courses

• FREN 8270 Aisthesis in French Theory
• FREN 8250 Prose Poetry, Modernism and Media
• FREN 5350 Surrealism: Writing, Art, Film, Sex, Politics
• FREN 5301 Temporary Communities in French Cinema
• FREN 5301 Whatever Happened to Poetics?
• FRIT 3850 Poetic Realism, Neorealism and Film Noir
• FREN 3650 Early French Film Culture
• FREN 3250 Poetry and the Invention of Experience
• FREN 3350 Scientific-Fantastic Literature of the Fin-de-Sií¨cle
• FREN 8251 Media Theory in France