Julia Frengs
Associate Professor Modern Languages & Literatures University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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OLDH 1128
Lincoln NE 68588-0315 - Phone
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402-472-7954 On-campus 2-7954
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jfrengs2@unl.edu
Julia L. Frengs, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, Modern French Studies 2013) specializes in literatures of French expression from outside of France. She focuses principally on women’s writing, representations of the body, indigenous emancipatory discourse, and environmental engagement in the literatures of New Caledonia and French Polynesia. She also enjoys teaching courses on the literatures and cultures of the French-speaking Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Canada. Dr. Frengs has taught courses in French language and French and francophone cultures at Quest University Canada, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Oklahoma.
For more information about Dr. Frengs' academic career, download her CV.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Literatures of French expression from the Pacific, Indian, and Caribbean Oceans
- African and Canadian literatures of French expression
- French literature, language, film, and culture
- Women’s literature
- Literatures of the environment/the environmental humanities
- The body and body art in Oceanic literatures
Professional Association Memberships
- Modern Language Association
- Women in French
- Conseil International d’Études Francophones
- Centre de la Francophonie des Amériques
- Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
- American Association of Teachers of French