Department
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Email Address
nekstein@trinity.edu
Website
Nina Ekstein's Digital Commons Page
headshot of Dr. Nina Ekstein 2014

Dr. Ekstein retired on June 1, 2023 after serving as a Trinity professor of French for 43 years (Assistant professor 1980-86, Associate Professor 1986-93. Professor 1993-2023).

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 
  • M.A., University of Pennsylvania 
  • B.A., The State University of New York at Stony Brook

Selected Publications

  • “Populating the Dramatic Universe Through Names,” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLVI, No. 90 (2019): 133-164.
  • “Cinna's Political Ambition.” Neophilologus 101.2 (2017): 187-198.
  • “The Cornelian Ethics of Flight and the Case of Horace.” Romance Notes 56.3 (2016): 485-93.
  • “The Impact of Photographs in Hiroshima mon amour.” French Review 90.2 (2016): 104-16.
  • "With What Arms Do We Fight? The Network of Possible Worlds in Corneille's Nicomède." Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity in Seventeenth-Century France. Ed. Michèle Longino & Ellen Welch. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2015.
  • "Dramatic Point of View. L'École des femmes and Le Misanthrope." Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLI, No. 81 (2014): 315-41.
  • "Irony in Emmanuel Carrère's La Moustache." French Review 86.3 (2013): 497-507.
  • "La Pratique ironique de l'appel à l'autorité dans les péritextes du théâtre de Corneille." Pratiques de Corneille. Ed. Myriam Dufour-Maître. Mont-Saint- Aignan: Publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2012. 401-408.
  • "The Theatrical lieu de culture within Molière's Plays." Lieux de culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Ed. William Brooks, Christine Probes, and Rainer Zaiser. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. 233-46.
  • "Sex in Rotrou's Theater: Performance and Disorder." Orbis Literarum 67.4 (2012): 290-309.
  • "Performing Violence in Rotrou's Theater.” Neophilologus 95 (2011): 543-56.
  • "Rotrou's Bélisaire: Hierarchy and Meaning." Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XXXVII, No. 73 (2010): 439-53.
  • "The Dramatic Transformation of Food in Tristan L'Hermite's Le Parasite." Nourritures. Eds. Roxane Lalande and Bertrand Landry. Tübingen: Gunther Narr, 2010. 165-172.
  • Corneille's Irony, Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2007.

Subjects Taught

  • Advanced French Grammar 
  • French Cinema 
  • HUMA 
  • Seventeenth-Century French Theater 
  • Lower-division French Language Courses

Teaching and Expertise

  • French Language
  • French Literature, especially 17th-century French classical theater)
  • French Film