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Holly Engel

Holly Engel

Holly Engel

PhD Student & Graduate Teaching Associate in French & Francophone Studies & President of French & Italian Graduate Student Association
She/her/hers

engel.210@osu.edu

208 Hagerty Hall

Office Hours

See course syllabi or by appointment.

Areas of Expertise

  • Film and Media Studies
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Horror and the Fantastique
  • National Identity

Education

  • B.A. English, French and Francophone Studies, Minor in Music, The College of Wooster, 2021
  • M.A. French and Francophone Studies, The Ohio State University, 2023

Holly Engel graduated from The College of Wooster, summa cum laude, in May 2021 with a B.A. in English and French and Francophone Studies, as well as a minor in music. She spent a semester of her junior year studying in Nantes, France, where she grew to love film studies. During her senior year at Wooster, she devoted most of her time to her Independent Study thesis, "Sinister Cinema: Depictions of Evil in the WWII and Postwar Thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock and Henri-Georges Clouzot," for which she was awarded Honors. Holly received her M.A. in French and Francophone Studies from OSU in May 2023 and is now a PhD candidate working on her dissertation, "Possessed, Haunted, and Bitten: Constructing Gender Through Monstrosity in French Horror." She is in her fourth year of studies at The Ohio State University.