Dr. Annabel Kim

Biography

Annabel Kim is a Professor and Department Chair in the Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, specializing in 20th and 21st-century French literature. She received her B.A. in French Art History from Williams College in 2007 and her Ph.D. in French from Yale University in 2014. Her research interests include feminism, contemporary novels, and the politics of literature. Kim's first book, 'Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions' (2018), explores feminist poetics through the works of Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig, and Anne Garréta, theorizing the hollowness of difference in contemporary identity narratives. Her second book, 'Cacophonies: Excremental Canon of French Literature' (2022), critiques the modernization of the French literary canon and aims to counteract the deodorization of its values by highlighting embodied experiences. Her ongoing research critiques the predominance of autofiction and exofiction in contemporary literature, while advocating for diverse representations and the ethical implications of writing fiction.

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