Roger Celestin

Dr. Roger Celestin is professor emeritus of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Connecticut; he has also taught at Barnard College, Columbia University and MIT.  He is the author of several scholarly books, including From Cannibals to Radicals: Figures and Limits of Exoticism and Universalism in Crisis: France from 1851 to the Present.  The Delicate Beast is his first novel. He is founder and editor in chief of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies/SITES.