Jennifer Yee

Professor Jennifer Yee is a Professor of Literature in French at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. She holds degrees from the University of Sydney (B.A.) and Université de Paris (D.E.A., Ph.D.). Her research focuses on 19th-century French literature, postcolonial studies, and the intersection of literature with visual arts and colonial discourse. Notable areas include Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Zola, and Proust, with an emphasis on colonial and exotic writing.

Professor Yee teaches French language and literature, specializing in 19th-century works and Francophone texts. She supervises doctoral theses on topics like colonial travel narratives, Proust’s psychological themes, and gender in French Indochina writing. Her scholarship includes monographs such as The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel (2016) and edited volumes like French Decadence in a Global Context (2022).

Her articles explore themes such as colonial encounters in fiction, exoticism in poetry, and visual culture’s impact on narrative. Recent work analyzes Flaubert’s satirical ekphrasis and Zola’s colonial critiques. Yee’s research bridges literary analysis, postcolonial theory, and interdisciplinary cultural studies.