Eilene Hoft-March, associate professor of French, is a triple threat in the classroom, teaching French language and literature, Freshman Studies, and gender studies — and enjoying them all.
A member of the Lawrence faculty since 1988, she received a bachelor’s degree from Carroll College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. A past recipient of Lawrence’s Young Teacher Award and the Freshman Studies Teaching Award, she also was an early and prominent proponent of the program in gender studies and has taught in its core courses, as well as encouraging students to focus their individual work in selected French courses on issues and topics related to gender.
An established scholar of the novels and autobiographies of the 20th century, her recent interests also include literature about children and Holocaust literature. In 2002-03, she presented “When Beauvoir Speaks for Sartre: Ambiguous Ethics in La Cérémonie des adieux” at the International Colloquium on 20th-Century French Studies and delivered a talk titled “Child Survivors and Narratives of Hope: Georges Perec’s W ou le souvenir d’enfance” at the 31st Annual French Literature Conference.
On her teaching schedule this year, in addition to French language courses and one term of Freshman Studies, she is teaching Destination Dakar, a required orientation course in the Winter Term for students planning to take part in the Francophone Seminar in the Spring Term, a ten-week study program in Dakar, Senegal, for which Professor Hoft-March is this year’s faculty director.
In 2000, along with Rebecca Rollins, Hoft-March wrote the notes accompanying the compact disc “Clearings in the Sky: Songs by Lili Boulanger and Compatriots,” recorded by Patrice Michaels, associate professor of music, and pianist Rollins.
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