Timothy M. Freiermuth
senior Lecturer of French
Office: Palamountain 429A
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