New Faculty: Assistant Professor Edwige Crucifix, French and Francophone Studies
As we begin the semester, we're highlighting Bryn Mawr's newest faculty members. The College supports faculty excellence in both research and teaching.
Edwige Crucifix
Edwige Crucifix is a scholar of modern and contemporary Francophone literature, specializing in gender studies and postcolonial theory. Her current book project, Alter Egos: Transcultural Female Subjects in the Colonial Maghreb, explores mechanisms of identity construction in colonial society, from the 18th to the 20th century, in the works of French and North African women. This work participates in the ongoing reshaping of French studies within a global framework, and offers an alternative perspective on contemporary debates about gender, race, and national identity. Her research and teaching stems directly from an interdisciplinary interest in modes of cultural resistance, explored in previous publications dedicated to modernist aesthetics, 19th-century bourgeois taste, inter-war Jewish identity, and Quebecois food blogs. At Bryn Mawr, she will be teaching language and literature courses related to her research.
The Bi-College French and Francophone Studies program at Bryn Mawr and Haverford is recognized as one of the top undergraduate French programs in the country. The purpose of the major in French and Francophone Studies is to develop sophisticated critical and analytical skills through the analysis of, among other things, French and Francophone literature, history, art, film, material culture, and/or institutions.