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Kathryn Lachman
Graduate Program Director, Comparative Literature
Professor, 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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Herter Hall
161 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-9312
United States
Room 320
About
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.