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 multiple articles on documentary cinema and recently completed a book on the subject, 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 televisual dramas and Quebec's cinematic production.

• 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 

"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