Faculty and Staff

Jennifer Willging, Associate Professor of French and Interim Chair

A.B. Washington University, Ph.D. Northwestern University

Jennifer Willging is Associate Professor of French and Interim Chair of the Department of French and Italian. She specializes in 20th- and 21st-century French literature and culture with particular interests in Second World War France, postwar narrative, and contemporary French-American cultural relations. She has published a book on anxiety in postwar women's writing in French (Telling Anxiety, U of Toronto P, 2007) and essays on narrative voice in Duras and Ernaux; on intertextuality in Duras, Céline, Sarraute, Sartre, and Paule Constant; on changes in food and drug consumption in contemporary France; and most recently, on representations of the German Occupation of France, 1940-44.