Annie Ernaux beyond Words

Michèle Bacholle, Ph.D., CSU Professor of French at Eastern Connecticut SU, is co-founder of Annie Ernaux International Studies. Her recent publications are on Annie Ernaux, Chloé Delaume, Linda Lê, Céline Sciamma, and Julia Ducournau. Her latest book, Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s Autofiction (on rape culture, slut-shaming, incest, femicide, immigration, racism, sex work, motherhood, aging, and workplace violence), was published by Bloomsbury in 2026.is forthcoming at Bloomsbury.Jacqueline Dougherty, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in Foreign Languages at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of Annie Ernaux International Studies. Her publications include “Errance identitaire et entre-deux chez Marguerite Duras et Annie Ernaux,” “L’Événement from Page to Screen,” “‘Je suis entrée dans l’image et je crève’: “Les Années Super 8 and the Emancipation of the Frozen Woman,” and, forthcoming, “Annie Ernaux’s Ekphrastic Intermediality: Image, Scène and Inter-photo-texte in The Other Girl.”