Timothy M. Freiermuth

senior Lecturer of French

Office:  Palamountain 420
Phone:  (518) 580-5209
Email: tfreierm@skidmore.edu

Education

• Ph.D., candidate, French Literature, Brown University
• M.A., French Literature, Middlebury College / Université de Paris III – La Sorbonne Nouvelle
• B.A., Philosophy & French, Boston University – Phi Beta Kappa

Teaching and Research Interests

• 17th- and 20th-century French literature and culture
• Early modern history of ideas
• The interplay of science and religion
• French spirituality, theology and the mystical tradition
• Silence, ineffability and languages of “unsaying”
  
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  "…mais en vain cherchait-il quelque phrase qui pût à la fois ne rien dire et tout signifier."
  
  -André Gide, Les caves du Vatican