Dr. Christine Froula

Biography

Christine Froula is a professor in the Department of English at Northwestern University, where she specializes in English, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, and Psychoanalytic Theory. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She has served as the past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society and has widely published in areas such as interdisciplinary modernism and feminist gender theory. Her notable works include 'Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity' and 'Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, Joyce,' which highlight her engagement with modernist literature and feminist theory. Froula has contributed to several anthologies and journals, exploring themes of war, empire, and modernist poetry, as well as the intersections of gender and sexuality in literature. She is currently working on 21st-century adaptations of ancient modernist classics and editing an anthology on Bloomsbury drama. In addition to her academic work, Froula collaborates on performance projects, such as the concert performance of 'Abelard & Heloise.'

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