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Faculty Fellow

Andrea Goulet

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Professor of French and Francophone Studies

FIGS Department Chair

About

Andrea Goulet is Professor of Romance Languages in the School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to Penn, she served as Associate Professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of two books on French fiction and literature. Her current research interests include 19th and 20th century French fiction, critical theory, science and literature, detective fiction, and nouveau roman literature. She is currently co-chair of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association.

Selected Publications

Goulet, Andrea. Forthcoming. “Teaching Les Misérables: Crime and the Popular Press.” In MLA Approaches to Teaching Hugo’s Les Misérables, edited by Michal Ginsburg and Bradley Stephens.

Goulet, Andrea. 2016. Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Space and Science in French Crime Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Goulet, Andrea. 2016. “Du massacre de la rue Transnonain aux ‘drames de la rue: Politique et théâtre de l’espace.” Romantisme 171(2016): 53-64.

Goulet, Andrea. 2006. Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Faculty Fellow

Simon Richter

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Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of German

Department Chair, Germanic Languages and Literatures

About

Simon Richter is Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of German and member of the Graduate Groups in Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, fellow of the Penn Institute of Urban Research, faculty advisory board member of the Water Center at Penn and affiliated with the Programs in Cinema Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. Courses he has recently taught include: “Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise and Catastrophic Flooding”; “Forest Worlds: Mapping the Arboreal Imaginary”; “Writing in Dark Times”; “Erinnerungsorte/Places of Memory”; and “Floating/Sinking: Phenomenologies of Coastal Urban Resilience.” From 2014-2019, Richter directed a hybrid online/study abroad course called “Comparative Cultures of Sustainability in Germany and the Netherlands,” which involved an intensive study visit to Berlin and Rotterdam. 

Simon's research focuses on cultural aspects of the climate emergency, especially with regard to resilience, adaptation, and sustainability in Germany, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and the United States. As an environmental humanist, Richter engages in activities that blur distinctions between traditional scholarship, urban design, and environmental activism. In 2018/19, he was a member of One Resilient Semarang, an international team of urban designers, hydrological engineers, ecologists, and urban and environmental activists from Indonesia, the Netherlands, and the United States.

Selected Publications

“Goethe’s Faust and the Ecolinguistics of ‘Here,’” in German Ecocriticism, ed. Caroline Schaumann and Heather Sullivan (NY: Palgrave, 2017).

“Betting on Water: The Hydrological Moment in Goethe’s Faust,” in Design in the Terrain of Water, ed. Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha (San Francisco: APD / ORO Editions, 2014).

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