Description: This session considers the influential work of Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1940–2018), professor of French and sociology at Columbia University. Participants, including former colleagues, students, and friends, discuss Ferguson's scholarship and legacy in the study of the literary, urban, and culinary cultures of France.

Speakers

Anthony Glinoer, U of Sherbrooke

Cary Hollinshead-Strick, American U of Paris

Cheryl Ainley Morgan, Hamilton C

Geoffrey Turnovsky, U of Washington, Seattle

Priya Wadhera, Adelphi U

John Edward Westbrook, Bucknell U

Presider

Susan Elizabeth Hiner, Vassar C

Respondent

Carolyn Jane Betensky, U of Rhode Island