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Nanette Shaw
Sylvie Weil, an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction, and drama, has joined the faculty of the Ph.D. Program in French at the City University Graduate Center. Her appointment is effective February 1, 2000. Weil’s work has received enthusiastic praise in the leading French periodicals. Her work was called "a revelation" by Le Figaro (10/18/84), while Le Monde des livres (4/21/95) spoke of the "unusual and pitiful people who inhabit Sylvie Weil’s short stories, often victims of her cruel humor." The Tribune Juive (2/23/95) praised her as an authentic Jewish author who belongs to the contemporary current of the American Jewish novel, even though she writes in French. Weil is known for numerous short stories including "Musinga Monique," "Rubis sur l’ongle," and "Le loup blanc," which have been published in a number of different anthologies. In addition, her short stories have been published in three complete works of her own: Jeux, collection de nouvelles (2000), Le Jardin de Dima (1995), and A New York il n’a pas de tremblements de terre (1984), for which she received the prestigious George Sand literary prize. Her novel, Les Reines du Luxembourg, was published in 1991, and Les Vendages de Rashi, a fictionalized biography on the medieval philosopher Rashi, is coming out this year. Weil has also published two books on language, Trésors de la politesse françaises (1983), and Trésors des expressions françaises (1981), which has since been translated into Japanese. Weil’s book on French women, Les Femmes en France (with Marie Colins), was published in 1974, and her play, A New York il n’a pas de tremblements de terre, was performed in Paris at the Théâtre Daniel Sorano in 1994. Born in France and educated at the Sorbonne, Weil has taught in the United States since 1967. She was first an instructor at the City College of New York, then at Barnard College, before becoming an assistant professor at Bennington College in Vermont from 1973 to 1978. Along with her Graduate Center appointment, Weil remains on the faculty of the Department of Romance Languages at CUNY’s Hunter College, where she has been since 1986. The Graduate School and University Center is the doctorate-granting institution of the largest urban university in the U.S. The only consortium of its kind in the nation, The Graduate Center draws its faculty of more than 1,700 members mainly from the CUNY senior colleges and cultural and scientific institutions throughout New York City. Established in 1961, The Graduate Center has grown to an enrollment of nearly 4,000 students in 31 doctoral programs and seven master's degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Graduate Center also houses 24 research centers and institutes and administers the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. According to a recent National Research Council report, more than a third of The Graduate Center's rated programs rank among the nation's top 20 at public and private institutions, nearly a quarter are among the top ten when compared to publicly supported institutions alone, and more than half are among the top five programs at publicly supported institutions in the northeast. Further information on The Graduate Center's programs and activities can be found on its web site at: www.gc.cuny.edu. |