Marcie Frank re-appointed Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC)

Catherine Wild, dean of Fine Arts, and Brian Lewis, dean of Arts and Science, are pleased to announce the re-appointment of Marcie Frank as director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC). Frank, an English professor who has served as the centre’s director since 2010, will continue her role effective June 1, 2013 to May 31, 2015.

“We look forward to working with Marcie and supporting her work to foster interdisciplinary initiatives between both faculties,” says Wild. “Under her direction, CISSC will play an important role when Concordia hosts Encuentro 2014,” added Lewis. Encuentro is a prestigious pan-American conference that will bring together hundreds of scholars, artists and activists in Montreal from June 21 to 28, 2014. 

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture is dedicated to promoting advanced interdisciplinary work across the social sciences, humanities and arts by creating avenues for research and exchange among faculty and graduate students. The work of the Centre focuses on the questions, values, and forms of expression that arise from experiences of the human condition.

The Centre supports innovative interdisciplinary scholarship across the social sciences, humanities and arts, and creative work through its unique PhD in Humanities as well as through public lectures, conferences, seminars, and working groups.

Frank joined Concordia University’s department of English in 1991, receiving tenure in 1996. Her research and teaching interests include restoration and eighteenth-century British literature and culture, gender and sexuality, and post-1945 American literature and media, especially film and television. Frank’s current book project, “The Novel and the Repertory,” investigates the reciprocal relations between the novel and the stage from 1730 to 1820. She is also researching and writing about the manifold cultural representations of Richard Nixon since Watergate. An active scholar and administrator, she was promoted to full professor in 2005, chaired the English department from 2005-2008, and was appointed director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture in 2010.