Timothy M. Freiermuth

Associate Teaching Professor of French  

Office: Palamountain 429A
Phone: 518-580-5209
E-mail: 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 and 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”

"…mais en vain cherchait-il quelque phrase qui pût à la fois ne rien dire et tout signifier."

-André Gide, Les caves du Vatican