Audrey Evrard

B.A. and M.A. in English and American Studies, Université de Nancy 2 (France)
M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• French and Francophone film and screen studies
• Documentary filmmaking
• Contemporary Critical Theory (especially Labor, Work, Precarity, Ethics of Care)
• 20th and 21st century French literature

Audrey Evrard specializes in French Film and Screen Studies. She has published articles on
documentary cinema and is the author of Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French
Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century (University of Wales Press, 2022). She
is also interested in contemporary Francophone TV serial dramas and Quebec's cinematic
production. She is currently at work on a book-length critical study of Sophie Deraspe’s
Antigone (2019), and a chapter on the French TV medical drama, Hippocrate, to be featured in
the edited volume, The Hospital in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures:
Reimagining Clinical Environments (eds Benjamin Dalton and Áine Larkin, forthcoming 2027).

• Introduction to French Language and Literature
• France: Literature, History, Civilization
• French Films d'Auteur -- Genre and Gender (2014) ; Agnès Varda (2020)
• Contemporary French Novel
• The New Wave Arrives!
• Francophone African Cinemas
• Discovering French Cinema
• America: French Perspectives
• Cinemas of Quebec
• Intercultural Theory: The "Contact Zone"

Book

Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century (University of Wales Press, 2022)

Edited volumes

Co-editor with Dr. Robert St-Clair (Dartmouth College) of "The Politics of Laziness", special issue 55, 1, (March 2016), Nottingham French Studies: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/nfs/55/1.

Recent peer-reviewed articles 

“Adolescence et fractures du politique dans Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Jeff Barnaby, 2013) et
Antigone (Sophie Deraspe, 2019)," Nouvelles Vues 25 (Fall 2025) https://nouvellesvues.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/05_NV_25_Evrard.pdf

"There Before You: Caring for the Uncared For,” French Screen Studies 22.1 (February 2022),
special issue "Ethics of Care in Documentary Films since 1968", 60-76.

"Topographies fantastiques dans la fiction télévisée francophone: Les Revenants (Canal +, 2012;
2015) et Zone Blanche (2017-2019)," TV/ Series 18, special issue "Séries et Espace" (September
2020), http://journals.openedition.org/tvseries/4718

"Rêve d'usine (Luc Decaster, 2003): Presenting the vanishing workplace," Modern and
Contemporary France, 26:3, (August 2018), https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09639489.2018.1424707

"Shifting French Documentary Militancy from Workers' Rights to an Ethic of
Unemployment," Nottingham French Studies, special issue 'The Politics of Laziness', 55,1
(March 2016): 96-116: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/nfs.2016.0141

“French Documentary Perspectives On The Collective Politics of the Atlantic Shipyards, A
Global Workplace,” Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society 17:1, special issue “Film,
labor and Migration,” (March 2014), 61-76:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17434580/2014/17/1

"On Impossible Cinema: Camille de Toledo’s Intermedial Archaeology of the Fictions of Our
Times,” in eds. Jean-Louis Jeannelle and Margaret C. Flinn “Ecrivains-cinéastes/Writers-
Filmmakers,” Fixxion: Revue Critique de Fixxion Française Contemporaine, 7, (December
2013), 98-111 : http://www.revue-critique-de-fixxion-francaise-
contemporaine.org/rcffc/article/view/fx07.10

“Framing the World Economics in a Tuna Can: Luc Moullet Tracks the Origins of a
Meal/Genèse d’un repas (1978),” Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 54, (Fall 2012): http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/evrardMoullet/index.html

“'9/11': Filmer le réel du '11 septembre’,” Contemporary French Civilization, 29:2, 2005, 1-21.

Short essays/Encyclopaedia entries

“Effondrement/collapsologie,” Greening Modern Languages project “Multilingual lexicon,”
https://www.ecomodlang.com (online since November 2023)

“Fable,” in Ed. Patrick Bray, Understanding Rancière, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury
Press (March 2017), 239-243: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/understanding-ranciereunderstanding-modernism-9781501311376/ (1,900 words)

“Political Cinema and Anti-Imperialism,” in Eds. Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope, Palgrave
Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism (London: Palgrave Macmillan, November
2015), 537-541. (2,543 words) (peer-reviewed)

“Le sang des bêtes/Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949),” “Farrebique (Georges
Rouquier, 1946),” “Profils Paysans 1 : L’Approche (2001), Profils Paysans 2 : Le Quotidien (2004), La vie moderne (Raymond Depardon, 2009),” in Eds. Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael, Directory of World Cinema: France, The University of Chicago Press, (2013), 45-47, 52-54, 56-58.