Department of Modern Languages

Andrew Suozzo

Professor, French Section Head

Phone: 773-325-1884
Office: McGaw 308
Email: ASuozzo@depaul.edu
Education: Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania

Teaching and Research Interests

Andrew Suozzo’s teaching over nearly thirty years at DePaul includes all periods of French literature, all levels of French language, French culture/civilization from the earliest times to the current day, and the teaching of culture in the language classroom.  He has taught LGBTQ history for more than a decade as part of the multicultural sophomore seminar.  He has also offered a Discover/Explore Chicago course on the athletic, economic, and social impact of the Chicago Marathon.

Suozzo’s articles have appeared in the French Review, French Forum, Journal of Popular Culture, Littératures classiques, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, and Romance Notes, among others. His articles on the pedagogy of French culture were awarded the Gilbert Chinard Prize (Institut Français de Washington/French Review, 1981) and the Edouard Morot-Sir Prize (Institut Français de Washington/French Review, 1996).  His article on the Chicago Marathon received the Russel B. Nye Award (Journal of Popular Culture, 2002).

Suozzo has also written three books: The Comic Novels of Charles Sorel (French Forum, 1982), Teaching French Culture: Theory and Practice (coauthored with Ross Steele; NTC 1993), and The Chicago Marathon (University of Illinois Press, 2006). This last book received the non-academic Hal Higdon Journalism Award (CARA, 2006).