Jennifer Willging is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in 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, theories of everyday life, and contemporary French-American cultural relations. She has published a book on anxiety in postwar women's writing in French (Telling Anxiety, University of Toronto Press)  and numerous essays on topics such as narrative voice in the work of Duras, Hébert and Ernaux; on intertextuality in the work of Duras, Céline, Sarraute, and Sartre; on leisure and alienation in Houellebecq's novels; and on representations of neoliberalism in the contemporary novel. She has recently co-edited a forthcoming special issue of Romance Studies on Houellebecq.

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