Alan Singerman is Richardson Professor Emeritus of French at Davidson College. He has taught courses including Sartre, Camus, and Beckett many times throughout a 39-year career teaching French language, literature, society & culture, cinema, and semiotics. He has published widely on French literature, including a half-dozen books, editions, and translations of works from or on the French 18th century, as well as several textbooks on French cinema in both French and English.