Anne Quinney, PH.D.
Professor of Modern Languages
Anne Quinney is a Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages. She teaches courses on contemporary French and Francophone literature, film, and culture. Her publications include Le goût de la révolte (Mercure de France, 2008), Paris—Bucharest, Bucharest—Paris: Francophone writers from Romania (Rodopi, 2013) and articles on French and Francophone writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is also a translator and published the English translation of French psychoanalyst J.B. Pontalis’ autobiographical work, Windows (University Of Nebraska Press, 2001). She received her PhD in French Studies from Duke University in 2000, a Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes from Université Paris 8 in 1996, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University in 1992.
Her current book project centers on the work of five French film directors, Mia Hansen-Love, Justine Triet, Céline Sciamma, Alice Diop, and Mati Diop, who share a primary concern: the cinematic portrayal of a range of women’s experiences from a woman’s perspective.
Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: The representation of gender and sexuality in film, women's rights and women's history in France.
Fellowship-Related Published Research:
“Rolling in the Deep: Mati Diop’s Atlantic Histories.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (2025): 79-88.
Fellowship-Related Conference Presentations:
“Resistance and Restitution: Decolonizing the Musée du Quai Branly,” Global Consortium for French Historical Studies, Paris, France, July 17, 2025.
“Decolonizing the Museum: The Case of the Royal Treasures of Benin" NEH conference on Memorialization, The Center for Practical Ethics, Oxford, MS, March 16, 2025.
“The Ghosts of Mati Diop,” South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, Jacksonville, FL, November 16, 2024.
