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Shapiro, Theda
theda.shapiro@ucr.edu

HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

(951) 827-1380 (Voice)
(951) 827-2160 (Fax)

    Shapiro, Theda

    Associate Professor of French & Italian

    College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
    Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages

    Biography

    Professor Shapiro is currently serving as the director of Liberal Studies and Interdisciplinary Programs, and director of the Italian program of the department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages. A graduate of Barnard College in French studies, with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in European intellectual and cultural history from Columbia University, she teaches French language, civilization, and literature, and Italian civilization. She is pursuing research on the relationships between French and European artists and society and on urban studies in a European context. In the area of university service, she has been dedicated to promoting international student exchanges through the University of California's Education Abroad Program, for which she has served as Director of the Critical Studies Program in Paris (1982-84) and as Associate Director for Academic Affairs in the EAP universitywide administration (1992-96). Her most recent academic enthusiasm is the study of Fancophone (especially non-European) cultures and literatures.

    Degrees

    A.B. Foreign Areas-France 1964
    Barnard College
    M.A. European Intellectual & Cultural History 1965
    Columbia University
    Ph.D. (awarded w/distinction) European Intellect 1974
    Columbia University

    Awards

    New York State Regents College Scholarship, 1960-64
    New York State Regents College Teaching Fellowships, 1964-66
    Foreign Area Fellowship for dissertation research abroad, 1967-69
    University of California Regents’ Faculty Fellowship, Summer 1975
    University of California Affirmative Action Faculty Development Award, Spring 1980

    Research Area

    French and Italian; intellectual history and civilization; European women's history; arts and society

    Publications

    Painters and Politics: the European Avant-Garde and Society, 1900-1925 (Elsevier, 1974).

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