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Kathryn M. Lachman

Kathryn Lachman

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Graduate Program Director, Comparative Literature
Professor, Comparative Literature

Contemporary French and Francophone literature, intermedial relations between music and literature, postcolonial opera, African studies, literatures of the Levant and the Maghreb, Holocaust literature and literatures of testimony, literary translation, contemporary world cinema.

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Email: klachman [at] llc [dot] umass [dot] edu
Phone: (413) 545-5813

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Herter Hall

161 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-9312
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Room 320

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Kathryn Lachman joined the faculty of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the fall of 2008. A native of South Africa, she holds a Ph.D. in French from Princeton University (2008), and earned simultaneous B.A. and M.A. degrees in French from Yale University (1998). Prof. Lachman earned the premier prix in violin performance and music history from the Conservatoire National de Région de Paris and the premier prix in chamber music from the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne in 1995.

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  • Comparative Literature

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  • Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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