Henry Majewski. Professor Henry F. Majewski taught French literature at Brown University for more than thirty years after completing his undergraduate studies and his doctorate at Princeton University. His specialty is nineteenth-century literature and art, especially the periods of Romanticism and Realism. He is the author of books and articles about French writers including Theophile Gautier, George Sand, Balzac and Flaubert. He has a particular interest in interarts relations and published a book on the transposition of painting and other art works into texts in nineteenth-century fiction and poetry. He is currently interested in translating important works of nineteenth-century French fiction which have not been previously available to an English-speaking public. His first translation was The Master Mosaic Makers- by George Sand. This novel deals with problems of art and aesthetics during the restoration of the mosaics in St. Mark's basilica in sixteenth-century Venice. It was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2005. He was Chairman of French Studies at Brown University for seven years and served as Director of the Howard Foundation at Brown for ten years. He actively supports several organizations that promote French culture and art, including the Alliance Française of Providence and the International House. He received the award of the Palmes Academiques from the French government in June 2008.