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Contact

Jean-Jacques Thomas

Jean-Jacques Thomas

Professor, Melodia E. Jones Professor of French
Office: 907 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0862
Email: jt96@buffalo.edu
Website: Personal site

Degrees

  • Diplôme de l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Université de Paris-III, 1972
  • Doctorat Mention "Très bien", Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1972
  • Maîtrise ès-Lettres Classiques, Université de Lille, France, 1969
  • Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures, Université de Lille, 1969
  • Étudiant libre, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1969

Areas of Specialization

  • 19th- and 20th-century French poetry, poetics, linguistics, semiotics, literature and culture, and Francophone Studies of the New World (Canada, Caribbean, Louisiana)

Recent publications

  • "Photographic Memories of French Poetry : Denis Roche, Jean-Marie Gleize." Yale French Studies (Summer 2008).
  • "Gleize's Poetic Pix." L'Esprit Créateur (Spring 2008).

Films

  • Duchampion
  • Chute des dés
  • Ampoule/Ampoulé
  • Installation 149

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