Jeri English
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Associate Chair, French
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416-287-7120
Program
French
Biography
Jeri English is an Associate Professor of French and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She teaches French language and literature courses, and courses on women's life-writing and cinema. Her research areas include feminist literary, film and cultural theory; twentieth- and twenty-first-century French women writers; autobiography; and the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir. She has presented papers and published articles on Rachilde, Annie Ernaux, Violette Leduc, Marguerite Duras, Marie Darieussecq and Beauvoir. Her current research project examines reflections of Beauvoir's theories of self-other relations in contemporary French women's autobiographical writings.