Dr. Robert Daniel
Assistant Professor of French, Chair
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Office - Bellarmine 305
Phone: 610-660-1851
Fax: 610-660-2160
Email: rdaniel@sju.edu
Education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Courses Taught
Dr. Daniel regularly teaches Second-Year French, French Conversation and Composition, Selections in French Literature and a wide variety of upper-division courses (including French Poetry, French Romanticism, Francophone Press, and Contemporary Francophone Cinema). In addition, he has taught courses on the French essay and the French novel.
Research
His teaching and research interests include:
- French Romanticism
- the political, social, religious and intellectual history of the July Monarchy (1830-1848)
- lesser-known and non-canonical authors of the nineteenth century (e.g. the "Petits Romantiques")
- theories of canonicity and canon formation
- the work of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), especially Les Fleurs du Mal
- the life and work of writer Edouard Ourliac (1813-1848)
- the daily and weekly press of mid-nineteenth-century Paris
- contemporary information and entertainment media in French (film, print and audiovisual news media, internet)
