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French

William C. VanderWolk

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Modern Languages, Associate Dean for Faculty Development

Contact Information

wvanderw@bowdoin.edu
207-725-3526
Romance Languages
DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
208 Sills Hall

Spring 2013

Introduction to the Study and Criticism of Modern French Literature (FR 210)

William VanderWolk: Bowdoin College: French - Romance Languages

Education

A.B. North Carolina
A.M. Middlebury
Ph.D. North Carolina

Teaching Interests

19th and 20th Century French Novel
19th and 20th Century French History
French Theater
French Cinema

Areas of Research

Intersections of French history and fiction, and their relation to memory (19th and 20th centuries)

Books Published

"Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to Utopian Vistas." Bucknell University Press, 2006.

Flaubert Remembers: Memory and the Creative Experience (1990)

Rewriting the Past: Memory, History and Narration in the Novels of Patrick Modiano (1997)

Co-Editor, Paradigms of Memory: The Occupation and Other Hi/stories in the Novels of Patrick Modiano (1998)

Rewriting the Past: Memory, History and Narration in the Novels of Patrick Modiano. Rodopi, 1997. Flaubert Remembers: Memory and the Creative Experience. Peter Lang, 1990.