About
Born and raised in France, Julie Crohas received her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Literatures from both the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Clermont Auvergne University, France. After teaching in France, Canada, and in Alabama and South Carolina, she is now delighted to be living in Helena, where she teaches French language and Francophone cultures to Carroll College students.
Her research focuses on contemporary French and Francophone novel. She is the author of Le Jeu du père (Droz, 2019), a monograph exploring representations of paternal speech in early twenty-first-century French fiction. She has also published articles and presented her work at national and international conferences in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia on writers such as Laurent Mauvignier, Philippe Forest, Ali Zamir, and Alain Damasio, addressing questions of voice and body, identity, and orality.
When she is not in a classroom, Julie Crohas can be found on one of the many trails around Helena, hiking and enjoying wildlife. She may also be farther away, somewhere around the world, discovering new cultures and enjoying some traditional foods with her two daughters and husband.
Teaching and Research Interests
French and Francophone Literatures, cultures, and language, twenty-first-century French fiction, Indian ocean Francophone writers, contemporary French science-fiction, French and Francophone graphic novels, cooking and gastronomy, identity and migration, orality.