As Professor of French and International Studies, Lisa Gasbarrone’s scholarly explorations have taken her from the Enlightenment philosophes, through Victor Hugo’s great masterpiece “Les Misérables,” to the early literature of Quebec. Her forthcoming book, “The Sense of the Sacred in the Early Novels of Quebec,” argues that what Paul Ricoeur called “the hermeneutics of suspicion” has led to partial, largely negative readings of the novels.Office of CommunicationsCommencementFrench and Francophone Studies