Lynn A. Higgins
Interim Chair, Film & Media Studies
Edward Tuck Professor of French Emerita
Formal Affiliations with Comparative Literatur, Film & Media Studies
My teaching interests include French cinema; 20th-century French novel; women filmmakers; adaptation; literary criticism and theory; literature and national identity.
Contact
Department(s)
Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, French and Italian, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Administration
Dean of Faculty
Education
- B.A. Oberlin College
- M.A. University of Minnesota
- Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Alain Resnais, Interviews (Editor and Introductory essay). University Press of Mississippi "Conversations with Filmmakers" series, 2021.
Bertrand Tavernier, Interviews (Co-editor with T. Jefferson Klline, introductory essay). University Press of Mississippi "Conversations with Filmmakers" series, 2016; pb 2022.
Bertrand Tavernier. Manchester U. Press (U.K.), Palgrave Macmillan (U.S.), 2011; pb 2015.
New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France. U. of Nebraska Press, 1996. Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize for best book in French & Francophone Studies, 1997.
Works In Progress
Book: Adaptation from Darwin to Hitchcock
"The 1970s Mode d'Emploi" [on Georges Perec], Yale French Studies, 2024.
Aurenchébost and the French Cinema Canon" (on the scriptwriting team Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost).