Amanda Vredenburgh
Amanda Vredenburgh
Ph.D., French and Francophone Studies, Indiana University
MA in French Literature, New York University
Assistant Professor of French and French Program Director
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
605 Agnes Arnold Hall
Email: ajvreden@central.uh.edu
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Biographical Summary
Amanda Vredenburgh is a scholar of contemporary French and Francophone Studies. She received her PhD from Indiana University-Bloomington and MA from NYU. Her research focuses on the fantastic genre, ecocriticism, and postcolonial studies. In her first monograph, The Contemporary Fantastic: Reimagining Reality in French Novels (2024), she rethinks the fantastic genre through the examination of environmental, political, and social issues in the novels of Marie Darrieussecq, Marie NDiaye, and Antoine Volodine. Her current project analyzes francophone novels from the Indian Ocean from the perspective of decolonial ecology.
Teaching
Dr. Vredenburgh teaches courses on French and Francophone cinema and literature, contemporary France, and advanced language.
Research Interests
The fantastic genre, ecocriticism, postcolonial studies, migration and border studies, the Indian Ocean.
Selected Publications
MONOGRAPHS
- The Contemporary Fantastic: Reimagining Reality in French Fiction, Lexington Books, 2024.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- 鈥溾�楥ette terre volcanique me ressemble鈥�: resisting the colonial imaginary in Ananda Devi鈥檚 Pagli.鈥� Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, edited by Nsah Mala and Nicki Hitchcott, Liverpool University Press, 2025, p. 117-133.
- 鈥溾�楴ous ne sommes pas malades, ne comprends-tu pas ?鈥�: Folie et Monstruosit茅 dans Moi, l鈥檌nterdite d鈥橝nanda Devi.鈥� Nouvelles 脡tudes Francophones, no. 39.2, 2025, p. 103-115.
- 鈥淭he Limits of White Hospitality in Marie Darrieussecq鈥檚 La Mer 脿 l鈥檈nvers.鈥� CFC Intersections, vol. 3, 2024, p. 83-104.
- 鈥溾�楥鈥檈st moi, Khady Demba鈥�: genre, identit茅, et migration chez Marie NDiaye.鈥� Nouvelles 脡tudes Francophones, 鈥淒roit de Cit茅: L'Autre en d茅mocratie ou la bataille pour l'茅galibert茅,鈥� no. 37.2, 2022, p. 86-100.
- 鈥淢ourning the Loss of the Land in Le Cl茅zio鈥檚 鈥榁illa Aurore鈥� and 鈥極rlamonde.鈥欌�� Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, 鈥淧arler la terre/Speaking the Earth,鈥� no. 25.4, 2021, p. 441-449.
- 鈥淩ethinking the Environmental Crisis through Marie Darrieussecq鈥檚 Fantastic Fiction.鈥� Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, 鈥淥pen Issue,鈥� no. 24.5, 2020, p. 651-659.
- 鈥淯n discours 鈥榙e majest茅鈥� : Le sublime royal dans les expressions de l鈥檃bsolutisme sous Louis XIV.鈥� Romanic Review, no. 111.2, 2020, p. 227-248. (co-authored with Hall Bj酶rnstad)
- 鈥淭he Fantastic Bestialization of the Biopolitical Subject in Marie Darrieussecq鈥檚 Truismes.鈥� Romance Notes, no. 59.1, 2019, p. 163-172.
- 鈥溾�楲a Communication des 芒mes鈥� 脿 travers l鈥檃rt et l鈥檃mour dans La Prisonni猫re.鈥� Bulletin Marcel Proust, no. 67, 2017, p. 79-84.