Professor of French
About
Michèle Hannoosh is professor of French and the lead faculty on the University of Michigan's Mediterranean studies initiative. Her research focus is nineteenth-century French literature, art, and society; art criticism, relations between the arts; the city, Walter Benjamin, the history of modernity; the representation of history; parody; comparative literature; the Mediterranean. She recently published a major new edition, in French and with commentary, of Eugène Delacroix's Journals, including the painter's voyage to the Maghreb and southern Spain. She is currently working on nineteenth-century photography by local practitioners in the eastern Mediterranean.
Field(s) of Study
- Nineteenth-century French literature, art, and culture, the nineteenth-century Mediterranean, word and image studies