Sonja Stojanovic , Ph.D. Associate Professor of French

Sonja Stojanovic is a memory studies scholar and specializes in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Studies. She is the author of Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely through Contemporary Fiction in French (Liverpool University Press, 2023) and the co-editor, with Siham Bouamer, of ‘Taking Up Space’: Women at Work in Contemporary France(University of Wales Press, 2022).

Her current book project, Cautionary Tale: Gender, Labor, and the Sociocultural Imagination of Cashiers in Modern France, analyzes representations of cashiers in French cultural productions from the 19th century to the present.

Education

• Ph.D., French Studies, Brown University, 2017

Research

• 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literatures, memory studies, labor studies, gender studies, critical theory, and European studies

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate

• FREN 2390 French Culture: Class and Consumption in Modern France
• FREN 3302 Introduction to Literature in French: Literary Analysis
• FREN 3303 French Conversation: La Chanson française
• FREN 4317 The French at Work

Graduate

• FREN 5329 Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory: Introduction to Memory Studies
• FREN 5320 20th-Century Literature: Holocaust Memory in French

Selected Publications

• Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely through Contemporary Fiction in French (Liverpool University Press, 2023).
• ‘Taking Up Space’: Women at Work in Contemporary France, volume co-edited with SihamBouamer (University of Wales Press, 2022).
• “Chimerical Cashiers: Exposure, Ableism and the Foreign Body in Marie-Hélène Lafon’s Gordana and Nos vies,” in ‘Taking up Space’: Women at Work in Contemporary France,edited by Siham Bouamer and Sonja Stojanovic. University of Wales Press (2022), pp. 136-152.
• “Should the Subaltern Clean?,” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, vol. 53. no. 1 (2020), pp. 39-54.
• “‘Des morceaux qui sortent’: La Mer à l’envers and Textual Migrations,” Marie Darrieussecq, extrême and contemporaine: From Invention, via Inventory, to Intervention,special issue of L’Esprit Créateur, edited by Marie-Claire Barnet, vol. 60, no. 3 (Fall 2020), pp. 46-58.

External Links

• ORCID