Visiting Assistant Professor Marina Davies received her Ph.D. from Yale University with a dissertation on character descriptions in the novels of Nathalie Sarraute, Albert Cohen, and Georges Perec. Her research and teaching interests including the twentieth-century novel, intermediality (particularly with regard to film and literature), and concentration camp memoirs.  She has taught courses on art and culture, French literature in translation, and cultural history. She has recently published an article on Robert Antelme’s concentration camp memoir and the notion of character.  Her current projects include an article on how language relates to utopian space in the novels of Albert Cohen and an article on Renee Dunan and Dada.