Jane Winston
Department of French and Italian

Jane Winston, (Ph.D. Duke), Associate Professor of French. Her primary research interests are in postcolonial theory and literature (especially Southeast Asia), cross-cultural feminist and gender studies (especially postcolonial and psychoanalytic), literary and cultural studies. She is the author of Postcolonial Duras: Cultural Memory in Postwar France (2001) and co-editor of Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue (2001). She has completed a study of cultural borders, revolutionary textual practice and social change, White Borders and Cultural Change: the groupe de la rue Saint-Benoît and is involved in her next major research project on French and Francophone women writers and filmmakers and the issue of utopia. Winston was the recipient of the Gerald Kahane Scholar's Prize for the best article in theatre research by a junior scholar in 1996, a fellowship from the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern University, and several university research grants.

j-winston@northwestern.edu