Dr. Amanda Vredenburgh
Modern and Classical Languages
Assistant Professor of French
Email: ajvreden@Central.UH.EDU
Amanda Vredenburgh is a scholar of contemporary French and Francophone Studies. She received her PhD from Indiana University-Bloomington and MA from NYU. Her research focuses on the fantastic genre, ecocriticism, and postcolonial studies. Amanda’s monograph The Contemporary Fantastic: Reimagining Reality in French Fiction (Lexington Books, 2024) rethinks the fantastic genre through its examination of environmental, political, and social issues in the novels of Marie Darrieussecq, Marie NDiaye, and Antoine Volodine. Her work on cinema includes the forthcoming article “The Specular Experience of Migration in Mati Diop’s Atlantique” (French Forum).