Each year the History and Literature program brings leading Columbia faculty to Paris to exclusively teach our M.A. students. Below is a list of upcoming, current, and previous HILI instructional faculty.
Instructional Faculty 2025-2026
Professor of French and of History
Fall 2025.
Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Spring 2026.
Gebhard Professor of German Language and Literature
Summer 2026.
Instructional Faculty 2024-2025
Instructional Faculty 2023-2024
Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History.
Course: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism.
Fall 2023.
Gebhard Professor of German Language and Literature.
Course: Aesthetics and Philosophy of History.
Spring 2024.
Instructional Faculty 2022-2023
Assistant Professor of French; Director, History and Literature Program.
Course: Passing/transfuges: being someone else, Fall 2022.
Associate Professor, Depart of History.
Course: Cultural history of fin-de-siècle Europe
Spring 2023.
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
Course: Jazz in Harlem and Paris
Summer 2023.
Instructional Faculty 2021-2022
George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of History.
Course: World War II in Narrative and Memory, Fall 2021.
Columbia Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Course: Freedom Times: Postcoloniality and Decolonization, Spring 2022.
Columbia University Professor of Germanic Languages
Course: Aesthetics, Summer 2022.
Invited Instructor.
Invited Instructor.
Instructional Faculty 2020-2021
HILI is on hiatus for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Professor of French and Romance Philology
Fall 2020
Associate Professor
Spring 2021
R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Summer 2021
Instructional Faculty 2019-2020
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, English & Comp Literature
Course: Cultural Appropriation and World Literature, Fall 2019.
Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History
Course: Nationalism and Cosmopolitism, Spring 2020.
Associate Professor of History, Department of History
Course: Enlightenment Legacies, Summer 2020.
Instructional Faculty 2018-2019
Professor of French and Romance Philology.
Course: French America (1534-1804).
George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of History.
Course: Narratives of World War II.
Instructional Faculty 2017-2018
Columbia University Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
Course: "Epic Histories."
Invited Instructor Fall 2017.
Course: Minorities in France: Exiled histories, Contested Memories, Collective Protests.
Columbia University Assistant Professor of Classics.
Course: Global Histories of the Book.
Invited Instructor Fall 2017.
Instructional Faculty 2016-2017
Columbia University Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
Course: Writing from France: Black Expatriates in Paris.
Columbia University Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Department of History.
Course: From Enlightenment to Romanticism in French thought (1700-1848)
Columbia University Professor of Germanic Languages.
Course: Aesthetics and Philosophy of History
Invited Instructor 2016-2017
Invited Instructor 2016-2017
Instructional Faculty 2015-2016
George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of History.
Course: Narratives of World War II.
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, English & Comp Literature.
Course: Plagiarism and Postcolonialism.
Professor of History, Department of History.
Course: Africa and France.
Instructional Faculty 2014-2015
Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Course: The Voice of the Witness.
Leo Spitzer, Visiting Professor of Oral History. Course: The Voice of the Witness.
Philippe Roger, Invited Instructor. Course: The Century of Intellectuels.
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History. Course: History and Literature of Slavery.
Instructional Faculty 2013-2014
Brent Edwards, Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Course: The Archival Imagination.
Sylvie Aprile, Invited Instructor. Course: Legacies of the First World War: History, Memory and Literature.
Emmanuelle Saada, Professor of French and of History; Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies. Course: The Nation-Between History and Literature.
Instructional Faculty 2012-2013
Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of History. Course: Narratives of World War II.
Vincent Debaene, Associate Professor of French. Course: Le Point de vue de l'indigène (1930-1970).
Carl Wennerlind, Associate Professor, Barnard College. Course: Defoe's London.
Instructional Faculty 2011-2012
Elisabeth Ladenson, Professor of French and Romance Philology; Chair, Department of French and Romance Philology. Course: The Realistic Novel in Context.
Robert Morrissey, Invited Instructor. Course: Rousseau's Confessions.
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History. Course: History and Literature of Slavery.