Jennifer Willging is Associate Professor at 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. Her book, on anxiety in postwar women's writing in French (Telling Anxiety), was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2007. She has  published 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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