Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

	Robert Daniel
	Assistant Professor of French
	Office: Bellarmine 305
	E-mail:rdaniel@sju.edu or           rrdaniel2@aol.com
	Tel.: 610-660-1851
	Fax: 610-660-2160

Dr. Daniel directs the Spring Semester in Strasbourg program.

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.

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)