Dudley Andrew

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R. Seldon Rose Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Film Studies
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Biography

Dudley Andrew studied English and Philosophy, then learned filmmaking before getting in on the ground floor just as Film Studies was taking off in the USA. His dissertation on film theorist André Bazin has funded several of his books, and has taken him frequently to France where he wrote two large histories of 1930s culture during the Popular Front era.   Andrew taught Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at Iowa for years, directing the dissertations of many of today’s leaders in Film.  Coming to Yale in 2000, he chaired Comp Lit from 2009-2013.  In the department he works with graduate students primarily on the French literary and philosophical milieu, or on issues that cross between Cinema and Literature (aesthetics, translation, hermeneutics, critical theory).  He has consistently taught undergraduate courses in World Cinema and in adaptation, as well as seminars related to the work of Bazin, whose complete works he curates in a dedicated archive at Yale. Andrew provides a link to French film history from having had personal encounters with Truffaut, Renoir, Resnais, Rohmer and other key figures. He is an “officier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres” and received the Lifetime Achievement award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Education

B.A. University of Notre Dame, 1967
MFA Columbia University, 1969
Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1972

Research Interests

French Literary, Cinematic, and Philosophical Culture 1919–1989; Aesthetics and Hermeneutics; Adaptation and Translation; Film Theory and Criticism; World Film (Asia, Europe, Africa).

Department: 
FASCLT Comparative Literature
Fields of Interest: 
French Literary, Cinematic, and Philosophical Culture 1919–1989; Aesthetics and Hermeneutics; Adaptation and Translation; Film Theory and Criticism; World Film (Asia, Europe, Africa)
Geography Focus: 
France
Global
Western Europe
Thematic Focus: 
Comparative
Culture
Film
Literature
Philosophy
Translation
Period Focus: 
Modern