Founded in 1993 by Professor Lawrence D. Kritzman (Dartmouth College) and the late Edouard Morot-Sir, the Institute of French Cultural Studies has now had thirteen Summer Institutes, all directed by Professor Kritzman. Nelly Furman (Cornell University, emerita, and current Director, Association of Departments of Foreign Languages) was Associate Director for five Summer Institutes, and Brian J. Reilly (Fordham University) has been Associate Director of the Institute since 2012. These Summer Institutes have become well established in the academic landscape, and they are made possible in part through the support of the French Cultural Services and of Dartmouth College, through grants from businesses, and also by graduate programs throughout the United States that send participants to the Institute.
The major goal of the Institute of French Cultural Studies is to allow advanced graduate students and assistant professors in French to partake in contemporary cultural debates on both sides of the Atlantic and to prepare them to supplement the programmatic needs of French departments in developing courses in interdisciplinary studies taught in French.
The major goal of the Institute of French Cultural Studies is to allow advanced graduate students and assistant professors in French to partake in contemporary cultural debates on both sides of the Atlantic and to prepare them to supplement the programmatic needs of French departments in developing courses in interdisciplinary studies taught in French.
Read more about the Institute and its Director in Revisioning French Culture, edited by Professor Andrew Sobanet of Georgetown University, who has been both an IFCS participant and faculty member. The volume also includes essays by several IFCS seminar leaders, invited guests, and participants.