Anne Mairesse

Professor, Teaches French and Comparative Literature and Culture, and is Program Director. A graduate student from Columbia University and the University of Paris, she received her Doctorate and Post-Doctoral Accreditation to Direct Research in 2000. Her research specialty is in 20th/21st Century French and Comparative Literature, Poetry, and Film studies.

Professor Mairesse specializes in late 19th and 20th Century French Literature, Poetry, and History of Modern Thought. She is the author of Figures de Valery, published by L'Harmattan, 2000. She has written numerous articles on Poetry and Criticism. She is the Director of the newly created USF Institute Paul Valery for Poetry and the Visual Arts in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at USF.

Professor Mairesse teaches French Language and Literature courses; Special Topics Seminars; French and Francophone Cinema; Paris-Berlin: Connexions and Contrasts Between France and Germany at the Turn of the 20th Century.