Senior Lecturer in French
Marie-Paule Tranvouez, a specialist of the nineteenth-century French novel, wrote her doctoral dissertation on Balzac. Her teaching interests include pedagogy, the French novel, cultural studies and the autobiography as a genre. She is a co-author of the sixth edition of Ensemble: Culture et Société, a cultural textbook introducing students to contemporary French documents and media; and, with her colleague, Jean-Marie Schultz, of the second year textbook Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections. She was the Secretary of the Association for French Cultural Studies and has co-organized several colloquia on cultural studies at Wellesley College. She is currently the director of the Wellesley College French House