Nichols Professor of French
Dr. Vincent Grégoire, Nichols Professor of French at Berry College, holds a Master's degree in History from the Université François Rabelais (Tours -France) after conducting research in Quebec City and Laval University (Quebec), and Master's and Doctorate degrees in French Literature from Rutgers University (New Jersey). His research is eclectic and focuses on 17th century French literature, missionary correspondence in 17th century New France, as well as on Albert Camus's works.
Since 1992, he has published around seventy articles in journals such as The Romanic Review, The French Review, Romance Notes, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Symposium, Dix-septième siècle, Cahiers du XVIIème, Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, Présence d’Albert Camus, and Cahiers de l’Herne among other journals. He has also published two books, L'Absence et le détail dans l'œuvre romanesque de Camus (Mellen Press, 2003) and Marie Guyart de l’Incarnation. Le singulier parcours d’une ursuline missionnaire de Tours à Québec (Peter Lang [coll. Études Canadiennes/Canadian Studies, vol. 35], 2022), and co-edited a third one with Professor Jason Herbeck, A Writer's Topography: Space and Place in the Life and Works of Albert Camus (Brill/Rodopi, 2015).
At Berry College, he has received several awards such as the 2001 Mary S. and Samuel Poe Carden Award for “outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service” as well as the 2019 the First Year Advocate Award.