Cybelle McFadden

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Cross-Appointed Faculty, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Languages Literature and Cultures

Email Address: cmwilken@uncg.edu

Phone: 336.334.3335

Education

• B.A. French, The College of William & Mary; Majors: French Literature and Film and Women’s Studies
• Ph.D. Romance Studies, Duke University; Fields: French Literature and Film and Women’s Studies

Research/ Teaching Interests

Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, French and Francophone Film, Contemporary French Culture, Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Literature, Feminist Film Theory, Women’s and Gender Studies

Courses Taught

FRE 312 French Conversation and Culture
FRE 332 Contemporary French Culture
FRE 353 The French Imaginary: Fiction and Culture
FRE 455 Topics in French Literature and Film
LLC 468 African History and Cultures Through Film

Selected Publications

• Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maïwenn. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014.
• “Des vagues de fiction: L’autre côté de la mer et Corniche Kennedy de Dominique Cabrera.” Dominique Cabrera. L’intime et le politique. Ed. Julie Savelli. St. Vincent-de-Mercuze: De l’Incidence Editeur, 2021. 115–124.
• “Technology, Resistance, and Franco-Arab Transculturalism in Nadia El Fani’s Bedwin Hacker.” Contemporary French Civilization 38.1 (2013): 1–21.
• “Reflected Reflexivity in Jane B. par Agnès V.,” Quarterly Review of Film & Video 28 (2011): 307–324.
• “Franco-Algerian Transcultural Tension and National Allegories,” South Atlantic Review 74.2 (2009): 112–128.
• “No Sex Last Night: The Look of the Other.” Intermédialités 7 (2006): 111–125.
• “Body, Text, and Language: Wittig’s Struggle for the Universal in Les Guérillères.” Women in French Studies 12 (2004): 70–84.