Hottell, Ruth A.

Ruth A. Hottell is Professor of French at the University of Toledo, where she has taught since 1988. Having earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in expanded French studies, she also studied at the Universite de Montpellier. She is the author of numerous articles and reviews on film, literature, and French cultural studies, as well as Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide, with Janis L. Pallister. Currently dividing her time between her homes in Toledo and Sete, she is finishing a manuscript on the films of Agnes Varda.