Anne Quinney

Professor of Modern Languages

• Faculty
• Instructor

• Email:

  aquinney@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  Bondurant C113

• Phone:

  662-915-6695

Anne Quinney teaches courses on contemporary French and Francophone literature, film, and culture. She conducts research in 20th Century French interwar fiction, the Feminist French New Wave, Romanian Francophonia, Translation Studies, French and Francophone cinema, Book History.

Research Interests

My resarch interests include 20th Century French interwar fiction, the Feminist French New Wave, Romanian Francophonia, Translation Studies, French and Francophone cinema, Book History.

Biography

Anne Quinney 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. She is pensionnaire étrangère of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rue d’Ulm, Paris. 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). 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.

Publications

“Existential Feminism and Fashion in America” in Paris in the Americas: Yesterday and Today. Vernon Press, 2022, • “Marketing Existentialism: 1945-1951.” Yale French Studies 135/136 (2020): 31-45, Paris—Bucharest, Bucharest—Paris: Francophone Writers from Romania (Rodopi, 2013) , Le goût de la révolte (Mercure de France, 2008),Windows, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003 (translation with introduction, J.B. Pontalis, Fenêtres, Paris: Gallimard, 2000).

Courses Taught

• FR 303/304 Conversation and Composition
• FR 361 French and Francophone Cinema
• FR 321 French Culture and Civilization
• FR 322 Contemporary French Culture
• FR 561 Advanced French and Francophone Cinema
• FR 571 Advanced French Grammar and Composition
• FR 578 Survey of French Literature II
• FR 593 Studies in French Culture
• FR 586 20th Century French Literature
• FR 587 Francophone Literature
• FR 573 Translation Theory and Practice

• Office, Department or Center

  Department of Modern Languages

• School

  College of Liberal Arts

• Campuses

  Oxford