Associate Professor of French
Graduate Coordinator
- 208 Walker Hall
- zachmann@ufl.edu
- 352.392.2110
- Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Office Hours — Spring 2025
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays: 3:00 p.m. to 4:55 p.m.
- Or by appointment
Biography
Gayle Zachmann is Associate Professor of French, Jewish and European Studies, and University Term Professor (2018–2021). She is a specialist of modern France and French cultural production of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and her teaching and publications focus on literature and the visual arts and French Jewish Studies. Zachmann received an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She served as editor of the international journal Romance Studies (2014–2017) and she is co-organizer of the annual Paris workshop Cultural Production in Nineteenth-Century France (Columbia University’s Global Center, Paris 2005–2011; University of Paris-Diderot 2014–2019). Professor Zachmann was Director of the University of Florida Paris Research Center (2003–2011) and the UF in Provence French and Interdisciplinary programs in Aix-en-Provence and Avignon (1999–2003). Zachmann’s publications include Frameworks for Stéphane Mallarmé: The Photo and the Graphic of an Interdisciplinary Aesthetic (State University of New York Press, 2008, paperback 2009), Cultural Production in Nineteenth-Century France: Essays in Honors of Lawrence R. Schehr (2012) co-edited with Charles Stivale, an edited art catalogue (2009), and articles on French and avant-garde writers and visual artists. Professor Zachmann is currently completing manuscripts on Claude Cahun and Marcel Schwob, she is producer and historical consultant for an upcoming documentary (opens in new tab) directed by Boaz Dvir on hidden-child/Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, Entebbe hostage and Klaus Barbie trial witness, Michel Cojot, AKA Michel Goldberg, and several film projects on French Jews. Zachmann regularly publishes, lectures, and teaches courses on the Jewish question in post-revolutionary France, Jewish writer-journalists of the Republic, Resistance aesthetics and the French Occupation, Contemporary France, and Jewish writers and artists of the French avant-gardes. She was named CLAS Teacher of the Year in 1995, and CLAS International Educator of the year in 2016.
Areas of Interest
Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century French; Literature, critical theory, literature and the visual arts, photography