Audrey is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the French and Francophone Studies program, and is pursuing an individualized minor in comparative literature, folklore, media (videogames), and history of science. She holds an M.A. with honors in French literature with a specialization in Comparative literature (Université de Rouen- 2017) and an M.A. with honors in French as Foreign Language (Université de Rouen – 2019). Thanks to the European exchange program Erasmus, she also had the opportunity to study one year at the University of Exeter, England (2015-2016). After this time, she worked as a language assistant for a full academic year at Loreto College in Ballarat, Australia (2018). Most recently, she was a Fulbright teaching assistant at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania (2019-2020). Her research interests are the supernatural in literature (marvelous, gothic, fantastic, fantasy, surrealism, francophone merveilleux) and in popular beliefs, myth, legends, folktales, magical knowledge, the visual representation of supernatural in media (videogames) and the practice of magic and occult. Her dissertation will most likely focus on the Fantasy movement in France in the 20th and 21st century. When she is not studying, teaching, or doing research, she loves playing videogames, finding the best Asian cuisine in Bloomington, and swimming.
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