Edwige Crucifix

Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Edwige Crucifix headshot

Contact

Phone 610-526-5384
Location Old Library 146

Department/Subdepartment

Education

Ph.D. Brown University 
B.A., M.A. Universit茅 Paris IV-Sorbonne 

Areas of Focus

20th and 21st C. Francophone Literature, Maghreb, postcolonial studies, women and gender studies.

Biography

Edwige Crucifix is a scholar of Modern and Contemporary Francophone literature, specializing in gender studies and postcolonial theory. Her current book project explores mechanisms of identity construction in colonial society in the works of French and North African women. Her research and teaching stems from an interdisciplinary interest in modes of cultural resistance, explored in previous publications dedicated to modernist aesthetics, nineteenth-century bourgeois taste, and inter-war Jewish identity. 

Select publications: 

  • 鈥淒onner de la Voix: Prostitu茅es postcoloniales dans le roman marocain contemporain,鈥 RELIEF : Revue Electronique de Litt茅rature Fran莽aise, vol.14, n.1, 2020, pp. 76-91. () 
  • 鈥淎n Orientalist Masquerade: The Self-exoticizing Gaze in the Works of Elissa Rha茂s,鈥 MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, vol.14, 2019, pp. 29-37. () 
  • 鈥淜itchen Talk: Marguerite Duras鈥檚 experiments with culinary matter鈥 in Gastronomic Modernism: Food, Literature and Culture, edited by Derek Gladwin, Clemson UP, 2019, pp. 209-222. 
  • 鈥淔rom Nature鈥檚 Garden: Reimagining North African landscapes through food in Female French colonial literature鈥 in Food and Landscapes, edited by Mark McWilliams, Prospect Books, 2018, pp. 110-120. 
  • 鈥淒卯ners imaginaires et repas fantasme : la recette de cuisine comme espace de projection litt茅raire,鈥 Captures, vol. 1, n. 2, 2016. 
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