Lucas Hollister
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of French and Italian Languages and Literatures
Area of Expertise
20th/21st-century French literature,
The novel,
Popular culture, genre fiction and film,
Cultural and critical theory,
Ecology and ecocriticism
Education
B.A. Grinnell College
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Publications
Beyond Return: Genre and Cultural Politics in Contemporary French Fiction. Liverpool UP, 2019
Co-editor, "Frontiers of Ecocriticism," double issue of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (SITES), 25.1-2 (January and March 2021).
"In the Dark (Antoine Volodine)." Romanic Review, 115.2 (September, 2024)
"Jean-Patrick Manchette, Anti-Journalist." L'Esprit Créateur, 61.2 (Summer 2021)
"Virginie Despentes' Queer Crime Fiction." French Cultural Studies, 32.4 (June 2021)
"Missing Modernism (Gide)." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (SITES), 24.5 (December 2020)
"Fatale Revisited: Reflections on the "Radical" in Radical Crime Fiction." MLN, 135.4 (September 2020)
"The Green and the Black: Ecological Awareness and the Darkness of Noir." PMLA, 134.5 (October 2019)
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