Joanna Conings

French GTA Modern Languages & Literatures

Joanna Conings, French MA Graduate Teaching Assistant, started her academic career in Belgium where she studied Germanic languages and literatures (Dutch and English) and continued to get a Master in English with a specialization in creative writing at Creighton University (Omaha, Nebraska). Now, she studies French and is particularly interested in L2 education and acquisition. She is particularly interested in how to integrate popular culture in the L2 classroom and on the use of theater and movies to teach French. She is mainly interested in 20th - 21st century literature and in Translation. Another interest of hers is Film Criticism in which she uses a "post-colonial" lense to uncover racial biases in popular French movies.

Previous Degrees

  • BA in Germanic Languages & Literatures (English-Dutch) | Université de Namur; Belgium
  • MA in English (Creative Writing specialization) | Creighton University 

Areas of Interest

  • Theater (in L2 Education and Acquisition)
  • Film Criticism: Popular French Cinema
  • Language Instruction and Acquisition
  • Translation
  • 20th - 21st Century Literature

Courses Taught

  • FREN 101
  • FREN 102
  • Spring 2023: FREN 210

Contact Information:

Office: 1033 Oldfather Hall

Email: jconings2@huskers.unl.edu

Previous Publications:

  • Conings, J., 2020. Spotlight: The Kids Aren't Alright by Joanna Conings | Graphic Medicine. [online] Graphic Medicine. Available at: <https://www.graphicmedicine.org/spotlight-the-kids-arent-alright-by-joanna-conings/> 

Conference Presentations:

  • “Watching a movie ‘against the grain’ to uncover a country’s conscious and unconscious racial biases: A comparative study on the representation of race in a French movie adaptation of a true story and its US remake”, the Southwest Humanities Symposium Committee, Arizona State University, February 2020.
  • "Benevolent Hospitality? The International Student and American Imperialism in Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student", Narrating Cold Wars Conference, the Hong Kong Baptist University, November 2021.