Adrienne Angelo

Education

PhD, Emory University

Research Interests

21st-century Francophone women and LGBTQIA+ writers, life writing, memory and trauma, contemporary French and American feminisms, medical humanities & care theory, disability studies, migration and diaspora studies, scholarship of teaching and learning related to second-language acquisition

Publications

• “Camille Laurens.” The Literary Encyclopedia. November 2023.
• “Reparative Revisions: Writing and Self-Creation in La Plage,” in Marie Nimier: Le Sujet et ses écritures/The Self in the Web of Language. Eds. David Gascoigne and Ana de Medeiros. Oxford: Peter Lang (Modern French Identities Series 142), 2021: 183–200.  
• “Surviving Scandal: Contemporary French Women Writers and the Perils and Powers of Life Writing,” South Atlantic Review 86.2 (2021): 1–15.
• “Editors’ Introduction: Alive and Kicking: French and Francophone Feminisms Now,” French Cultural Studies 31.4 (2020): 259–274.  
• “Mourir sans mourir: La Maladie de la mort et de l’amour dans Celle que vous croyez de Camille Laurens,” Roman 20-50 (Collections « Actes »), 17 (2020): 155–168.
• “Orphaned Fathers in Contemporary French Literature: Writing Child Loss from a Paternal Perspective.” Irish Journal of French Studies, 19 (2019): 87–106. 
• “Du fait divers au récit de soi : Écrire et filmer Abus de faiblesse de Catherine Breillat.” Intercâmbio: Revue d’études françaises, 2.11 (2018): 114–134.
• “Visualizing the Self and Vanished Others: The Specters of Loss in Photo-Photo,” Marie Nimier: Absence et perte. Ed. Ana de Medeiros and Carine Fréville. Paris: Éditions Passage(s), 2017: 37–57.
• “Ellénore, c’est moi: Camille Laurens réécrit Adolphe,” in Adolphe de Benjamin Constant: Postérité d’un roman (1816-2016) Ed. Léonard Burnand and Guillaume Poisson. Geneva : Éditions Slatkine, 2016 : 113–16.
• “Taking Stock: Marie Nimier’s Textual Cabinet of Curiosities.” Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literatures, 38.2, Article 4 (2014): 1–19. 
• “Enigmas, Erasures and Enquêtes: Camille Laurens and the Palimpsest” in Rewriting Wrongs: French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest. Ed. Angela Kimyongur and Amy Wiglesworth. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014: 111–25.
• “Philosophy in the Weight Room: Nathalie Gassel and the Crisis of Self-Representation.” Australian Journal of French Studies, 51.1 (2014): 75–87.
• “In the Name of the Father: Risking Speech over Silence in the Autobiographical Writings of Marie Nimier and Clémence Boulouque” in Women Taking Risks. Eds. Anna Rocca and Kenneth Reeds. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013: 117–30.
• “Crime and Punishment: Calixthe Beyala’s Manic Writing of Femme nue, femme noire” in Rebelles, vilaines et criminelles chez les écrivaines d’expression française.  Eds. Frédérique Chévillot and Colette Trout. Amsterdam: Rodopi, Collection Faux Titre, 2013: 183–98.
• “Roselyne and the Lions (1989)” in World Film Locations: Marseilles Ed. Marcelline Block. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect, 2013: 62.
• “Bye-Bye (1995)” in World Film Locations: Marseilles Ed. Marcelline Block. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect, 2013: 66. 
• “From Spectacle to Affect: Contextualizing Transgression in French Cinema at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century.” Irish Journal of French Studies, 12 (2012):157–78.
• “Camille Laurens’s Phantom Readings: Literary Allusions and Intertextuality in L’Amour, roman and Ni toi ni moi.” Women in French Studies (Special Issue – 2012): 150-66.
• “Wounded Women: Marina de Van’s Subjective Cinema,” International Journal of Francophone Studies, 15.2 (December 2012): 215–36.
• “Breathless (1983)” in World Film Locations: Las Vegas Ed. Marcelline Block. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect, 2011: 34.
• “Jolene (2008)” in World Film Locations: Las Vegas Ed. Marcelline Block. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect, 2011: 116.
• “Paris (2008)” in World Film Locations: Paris Ed. Marcelline Block. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect, 2011: 116.
• "Sujet buvard, sujet bavard: Nina Bouraoui's Words to Say It." Women in French Studies (Special Issue - 2011): 79-90.
• "Réseau(x) identitaire(s) : La migration et la force 'électrique' dans le parcours littéraire de Nina Bouraoui" in Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin: Enracinements et renégociations. Eds. Névine El-Nossery and Anna Rocca. Paris: Editions universitaires européennes, 2011: 67-87.
• Cherchez la femme: Women and Values in the Francophone World, eds. Erika Fülöp and Adrienne Angelo. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
• "The Poetics of Mourning: Language and Self-Knowledge in Nathalie Rheims's Postmortem Encounters" in Cherchez la femme: Women and Values in the Francophone World eds. Erika Fülöp and Adrienne Angelo. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011: 262-275.
• "Vision, Voice and the Female Body: Nina Bouraoui's Sites/Sights of Resistance" in Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility. Eds. Sandrine Teixidor and Cybelle McFadden Wilkens. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2010: 77-98.
• "Sexual Cartographies: Mapping Subjectivity in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat," Journal for Cultural Research, 14.1 (January 2010): 43-55.
• The Fourth Generation of French Feminist Writers (1985-2010): From Fictionalized Text to Fictionalized Author. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
• " 'C'est une joie et une souffrance': Mimetic Speech and Linguistic Pastiche in François Ozon's 8 femmes" in Patois and Linguistic Pastiche in Modern Literature. Ed. Giovanna Summerfield. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007: 119-129.
• "Histoire(s) de Catherine M.: Echoes of 'O' and the Difference of 'I' in La vie sexuelle de Catherine M." The Coastal Review (March 2007) Georgia Southern University.

Courses Taught

• FLFR 1010: Elementary French I 
• FLFR 1020: Elementary French II 
• FLFR 2010: Intermediate French I 
• FLFR 2020: Intermediate French II 
• FLFR 3010: French Phonetics and Diction 
• FLFR 3030: French Conversation 
• FLFR 3040: French Composition 
• FLFR 3050: French Cinema 
• FLFR 3140: Survey of French Literature I 
• FLFR 3150: Survey of French Literature II 
• FLFR 4410: Special Topics – Histoires criminelles: Le roman policier
• FLFR 4410: Special Topics – Contes de fées, contes de culture: The Fairy Tale Tradition in French and Francophone Literature and Film 
• FLFR 4410: Special Topics – La science-fiction dans la littérature et le cinéma français 
• FLFR 4410: Special Topics – L’écriture créative