Maxime Foerster

Maxime Foester

Associate Professor of French
French Area Chair
Faculty Advisor, French Club

World Languages and Literatures, French

Contact

Office: Clements 308D
Phone: 214-768-1691
Email: mfoerster@smu.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

About

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Areas of Interest

  • Modern and contemporary France
  • Vampirism
  • Social Justice
  • French Romanticism and Decadence
  • Gender and sexuality studies
  • French cinema

Publications

  • “Chemsex et littérature française,” in Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 47, no. 4, December 2022. 421-442.

  •  “From Cabaret to the Classroom: Bambi’s Professional Transition,” inTaking Up Space’: Women at Work in Contemporary France, eds. Bouamer, Siham and Sonja Stojanovic.University of Wales Press, November 2022. 286-306.

  • “Précarité et filiation queer dansEastern Boys, de Robin Campillo” inCFC Intersections, vol. 1, no. 1, Fall 2022.135-145.

  • “Rencontre du dandy et de la diva : la momification réinventée dans Le Château des Carpathes, de Jules Verne, in French Forum, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring 2022. 75-90.
  • “Les femmes transgenres face au sida dans Le Gai cimetière de Marie-Pierre Pruvot,” in Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 46, no. 2, June 2021. 197-211.
  • La bromance dans la littérature française au XIXesiècle,” in Littératures, vol. 81, June 2020. 89-102.
  • “On Feeling Mighty Real: Devenir gay à Montréal pendant l’ère disco dans Funkytown, de Daniel Roby,” in Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 43, no. 3-4, 2018. 373-389.
  • “Découverte de la sexualité dans Le pain nu de Mohamed Choukri et L’armée du salut d’Abdellah Taïa,” in Revue d’Histoire de l’Enfance “Irrégulière, October 2018. 105-122.
  • The Politics of Love (2018, University of Massachusetts Press).

Courses Taught

  • FREN 3386: Love in French Literature and Philosophy
  • FREN 4361: French Decadence
  • FREN 4362: Social Justice in 19th-century French Literature
  • FREN 4366: Contemporary French Literature
  • FREN 4372: Vampirism in French Literature and Cinema
  • FREN 4375: French Civilization
  • FREN 4377: French Conversation
  • FREN 4395: French and Francophone Women Writers
  • HIST/HRTS 3317: Sexual Minorities and Human Rights
  • WL 3327: Les Misérables