Dr. Juliet O Brien

Biography

Juliet O'Brien is a lecturer in the Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). With a mixed origin background, she grew up in Belgium and is bilingual, reflecting a culturally European upbringing. O'Brien's educational journey included institutions such as University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin's Centre for Medieval Renaissance Studies, and Princeton University. She focuses on teaching French language, literature, and culture, while her research interests primarily lie in Medieval and Early Modern literature and culture, with a special emphasis on French Occitan. O'Brien explores the connections between medieval and post-medieval textualities, hypertextuality, and the purposes of reading practices within interactive communities. She integrates her teaching and research to enhance learning experiences for her students. O'Brien's academic work is rooted in her idealistic views of internationalism and transnationalism, shaped by her educational background in European Schools, leading to her broader concerns of hybridity, migrancy, and cosmopolitanism.

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