Jennifer Willging

Jennifer Willging is an Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century French literature and culture, with specializations in Second World War France, postwar narrative, theories of everyday life, and French-American cultural relations. She also examines authors such as Marguerite Duras and Michel Houellebecq.

Education:

• PhD in French, Northwestern University (2000)
• BA in History, Washington University in St. Louis (1991)

Her work includes a monograph on anxiety in postwar women’s writing (Telling Anxiety, University of Toronto Press), essays on narrative voice in Duras, Hébert, and Ernaux, intertextuality in Céline, Sarraute, and Sartre, and analyses of neoliberalism in contemporary novels. She recently co-edited a special issue of Romance Studies on Michel Houellebecq.

Office hours (Spring 2025): Tuesdays 2:30-3:30pm and Thursdays 11:30am-12:30pm in Hagerty 213, or by Zoom appointment.