Amanda Vredenburgh is a specialist in contemporary French and Francophone literature. In both her teaching and research, Dr. Vredenburgh aims to demonstrate the value of incorporating fiction into the discussion of important environmental and social issues.
Her interdisciplinary research and courses draw connections between urgent contemporary problems, critical theory, and 20th/21st-century French and Francophone novels and films. She is currently working on a book project that rethinks the fantastic genre through its examination of political, environmental and racial issues in the novels of Marie Darrieussecq, Marie NDiaye, and Antoine Volodine. In other work, she has applied this approach that brings into dialogue aesthetics, affect, and politics to the seventeenth-century and early twentieth-century contexts.
Dr. Vredenburgh teaches French and Francophone culture and language courses at Loyola University New Orleans.
Recent Publications
- “Marie Darrieussecq’s Fantastic Approach to the Environmental Crisis.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, “Open Issue,” no. 24.5, 2020. (forthcoming)
- “Un discours ‘de majesté’ : Le sublime royal dans les expressions de l’absolutisme sous Louis XIV.” Romanic Review, no. 111.2, Sept. 2020, p. 227-248. (co-authored with Hall Bjørnstad)
- “The Fantastic Bestialization of the Biopolitical Subject in Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes.” Romance Notes, no. 59.1, 2019, p. 163-172.
- “‘La Communication des âmes’ à travers l’art et l’amour dans La Prisonnière.” Bulletin Marcel Proust, no. 67, 2017, p. 79-84.
Degrees
PhD, Indiana University Bloomington; MA, New York University; BA, Davidson College
Classes Taught
- Revolution, Revolt, and Resistance in Postcolonial Francophone Cultures
- Contemporary Crises in Global French Cultures
- Francophone Lit of the Supernatural
- Immigration and Identity in Francophone Cultures
- French Conversational Practice
- Elementary and Intermediate French
Areas of Expertise
Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century French/Francophone Studies, the Fantastic, Ecocriticism, Postcolonial Studies, Seventeenth-Century France