Kristine Butler, Associate Professor of French

Kristine Butler, Associate Professor of French, serves as Chair of the department and advisor to the French Club. She received her B. A. from Carleton College and her M. A. and Ph.D. from University of Minnesota. Her primary areas of research are early French cinema and turn of the century French literature. Her publications include articles on the films of René Clair, Chantal Akerman, and Pedro Almodóvar, and on early French serial films. She is currently developing research in problems of ethnic and cultural identity in early French cinema, and on a book-length manuscript which discusses the ways that urbanization and the development of technologies such as the phonograph changed the way French narrative developed in the late nineteenth century.