Professor of French and Film
Dual Languages Degree Program Coordinator
Ph.D., University of Iowa
- 243 Dauer Hall
- sylblum@ufl.edu
- 352.273.3771
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Office Hours — Fall 2023
- Mondays: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
- Wednesdays: 2:00 to 2:50 p.m.
- By appointment via Zoom
Areas of Specialization
Travel narratives, photography, 1930s cinema and culture in France, expatriate female artists and writers in the interwar period, the politics of culinary practices, and creative writing, and Georges Perec.
Biography
Sylvie Blum-Reid is professor of French and film. New courses that she created include: Dialogues in French Cinema, Extreme Orient-Orient Extrême (A Senior Seminar), Fashion and Food in European Cinema, Music in French Cinema, Masculinity in French Cinema, Francophone Women and Film, Francophone Postcolonial Cinema, the Films of Jacques Tati, Jean Renoir, Agnès Varda: From Here to There, World War II and French Cinema, European Cinemas, European Identities. She was awarded a three-year Term Professorship-College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, August 2019-2022. She was elected as representative for MLA/20th- and 21st-Century French literature studies forum for a five-year term (2017-2022).
Blum-Reid is the author of East-West Encounters. Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature (London: Wallflower press/Columbia University 2003), Traveling in French Cinema. Palgrave/MacMillan, October 2015. 978-1-137-55353-9. 237 pp., and Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France, October 2023, 978-1-64889-735-1, 205 pp.
Her articles appear in such film, literary and cultural journals as Film, Fashion, Consumption, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Iris, Sites, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, The Journal of Durassian Studies, Simone de Beauvoir Studies, and Le Maghreb Littéraire. She has published two short pieces in translation in Delos: “Les piedsnus”/”Barefoot,” by Linda Lê. A short story. Delos. A Journal of Translation and World Literature, vol 33, No. 1 (2018) spring 2018. 1-2, and La maison du joueur de flûte. Alexandre Vialatte (excerpt), Delos. Translation review. University of Florida, 2016.