Dr. Andrea Oberhuber

Biography

Andrea Oberhuber has been a professor at the Department of French Literatures at the Université de Montréal since June 2001. She studied Romance and German philology at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. Her teaching focuses on French and Quebec literature from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, particularly women’s writing, photoliterature, and historical avant-gardes including Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism. Oberhuber's doctoral thesis explored women's songs in France from 1968-1993, published in 1995. Her postdoctoral research includes a database on the history and current events of francophone women's songs. She has published numerous collections and articles in the fields of gender studies, cultural transfer, and photoliterature. Recent research includes investigations into the paradoxical nature of care in French literature from 1870-1945 and its representations in contemporary narratives. She co-founded the digital journal MuseMedusa with Catherine Mavrikakis, focusing on research-creation. Her recent works include a prize-winning essay on surrealist women's literature and co-directing various academic collections.

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