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I am a recent graduate of Vanderbilt University’s PhD program in French Literature and have served as a graduate student fellow of the university’s interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Religion and Culture.  In addition to taking courses in French and Francophone literature and culture, I have also pursued my deep interest in religion and philosophy, completing coursework in contemporary and classical theology, philosophy of religion, and 20th-century philosophy of mind.  My principal interests include religion and philosophy in literature, specifically as they relate to representations of religious change and decline in contemporary French fiction and society; Franco-American relations and intellectual history; and the future of French laïcité in the wake of immigration and globalization. My dissertation addresses issues of religion, theology, and philosophy in the novels of Michel Houellebecq.



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