Dr. Christine Fouirnaies

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Biography

Christine Fouirnaies is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2019. Fouirnaies's research interests span literature, visual culture, iconography, and literary criticism, with particular focus on modernism and auto/biography. Her work investigates the relationship between literary representation and lived experience, particularly within experimental literature from the early twentieth century to the present. She aims to illuminate issues of representation, engaging in mainly non-fictional writing, visual media, and material culture. Her recent publications include essays on Gertrude Stein and photographic evocations in Nabokov's works. She teaches courses on autobiography and literary non-fiction, exploring innovative forms of self-representation across genres and media. Her recent courses include 'Forms of Autobiography in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries' and 'Virginia Woolf: Love, Life, Writing,' which delve into the complexities of personal narratives and the influence of critical theories on literary production.

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Requirements for University of Chicago

Doctorate Program
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TOEFL
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Required:26
Reading
Required:26
Writing
Required:26
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:104
IELTS
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Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7
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Department of Philosophy