Mary Ann Frese Witt Professor Emerita Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures College of Humanities and Social Sciences North Carolina State University Campus Box 8106 * Raleigh, NC 27695-8106 Email: maryannfrese@aol.com
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for School Teachers Summer 2011 Avignon, France "La Théâtralité et la réalité dans le théâtre français moderne" Seminar Link

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Curriculum Vitae
PhD. Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Professor of French and Italian
Publications include essays on Pirandello, Genet, Sartre, Camus, drama theory, fascism and theater..
Books:

• Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic, Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2007.
• The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France, Cornell University Press, 2001.
• The Humanities: Cultural Roots and Continuities, Houghton Mifflin, 2001 (6th edition).
• Pirandello, Her Husband  (translation), Duke University Press, 2000.
• Existential Prisons (Malraux, Camus, Sartre, Genet), Duke University Press, 1985.

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Last updated, 2 November 2010