Les Essif

Major Field

20th-century French narrative and theater

Research Interests

Theories of drama and performance related to post-1950 French theater, esp. the semiotics and phenomenology of theatrical space; representations of "America" in post-1950 French/Francophone theatre; foreign language performance pedagogy; and contemporary critical theory and cultural studies

Education

Ph.D., Brown University, 1991

Recent Publications

Empty Figure on an Empty Stage : The Theater of Samuel Beckett and his Generation (Indiana UP, 2001) and The French Play: Exploring Theatre Re-creatively' with Foreign Language Students (U of Calgary Press, 2006). He is currently the undergraduate upper-division advising coordinator for French

Contact Information

Les Essif
Professor
718 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-6375
E-Mail: essif@utk.edu