Dr. Dudley M. Marchi
Professor of Comparative Literature
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Withers Hall 401
Bio
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Courses
Fall 2023
FL 218/001 – The Harlem Renaissance in France – “Paris Noir”
FLF 492-592/001 – Contemporary French Society & Culture
Spring 2024
Art & Society in France (001 / in-person)
Art & Society in France (601 / on-line / asynchronous)
Educational Initiatives
Engaged Learning: Cyrano de Bergerac & The French 17th Century
The Inquiry-Guided Experience: Art & Society in France
Study Abroad: Paris, Lille, Belgium
Academic Interests
- Masterpieces of Western Literature
- The Visual Arts and Society
- French-American Relations
- Second Language Acquisition
- Racial Dynamics in Literature and Art
Research and Writing
Books
The French Heritage of North Carolina
Contrary Affinities: Emerson, Baudelaire, and the French-American Connection
Montaigne Among the Moderns: Receptions of the Essais
Sample Articles
The Merci Train Comes to Raleigh
Engaging STEM Students in Humanities Courses
Saving French Studies: Art & Society in France
Montaigne and the New Millennium
Emerson, Baudelaire, and French-American Relations
Virginia Woolf Crossing the Borders of History, Culture, and Gender
Participatory Aesthetics: Reading Mallarmé & Joyce
Current Research
Paris Noir: The Harlem Renaissance in Paris
Transcendental Education in the Post-Humanist World
T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” Today
Creative Work
Current Creative Work
Midnight Vignettes (Narrative Prose Poems)
Education
B.A. English and Comparative Literature University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1981
M.A. Comparative Literature University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1984
Ph.D. French and Comparative Literature Columbia University 1991