Faculty Profile
Anne Quinney
Professor of Modern Languages
Phone Number: (662)915-6695
Email: aquinney@olemiss.edu
Key Words: French literature, poetics, cinema studies
Research Description: Dr. Quinney�s research interests include 20th-century French poetry and fiction, French cultural studies, literary theory, psychoanalysis and film.
Honors Theses:
Wood, Julia Grace (2022) Politics and War in the Cannes International Film Festival: An Analysis of the Festivals' Unifying Agenda (full text)
Gee, Madison (2021) Anti-Americanism and the Auteur: Critical Discourse and the French Film Industry from 1946 to 1965 (full text)
Starnes, Brianna (2018) "Ici on noie les algériens:" France's Repression of the 1961 Algerian Massacre (full text)
Holeman, Connor (2017) Succès de Scandale: the Role of Satire in French Society. (full text)
Haines, Hallie Grace (2015) Modernizing the Marianne: The French Feminist Movement and its Effects on Gender Equality. (full text)
McGehee, Mellie (2015) Vivre en Travaillant: Exploring the Economic and Social Effects of the 35-Hour Workweek in France. (full text)
Abbot, Adair (2014) Liberté, Égalité, Laïcité?: Defining French National Identity. (full text)
Mallette, Ellen L. (2014) Organic Farming in France: À La Mode or A Mode of Life? (full text)
McNair, Elizabeth Ann (2012) "The Extreme Right's New Face: A Study of the Front National's Influence on Xenophobic Discourse in France"
Peets, Jill Ashlyn (2010) "From Degenerate Monsters to Revenge of the Big Mac: A Study of French Anti-Americanism"
Rozmahelova, Veronika (2010) "Black & White Life of the Roma in the Czech Republic: Why Do Most Attempts to Integrate Roma Communities into Mainstream Society Fail?"
Cunningham, Catherine Corinne (2009) "Would You Like Frites With That?: Maintaining the Integrity of French Food Culture in the Midst of Globalization"
Dye, Caroline Turner (2006) THE 'PARISIAN PROWLER': The Effects of Modernity on Flanerie and Poetry of Charles Baudelaire (full text)
Available Research Projects:
Albert Camus and the Algerian Crisis 1954-1962
Project Description: I am working on a book about French-Algerian writer Albert Camus' fiction. In particular I am proposing a re-reading of his short stories in Exile and the Kingdom in light of his political views regarding the increasingly violent situation in Algeria in the mid-1950s. Camus took the unpopular position of advocating a civil truce between the indigenous Algerian population and the French settlers and for this reason, was silenced by his Parisian contemporaries on the Left. What he no longer could express publicly, he thinly disguised in allegory expressed in fictional form. I'm interested in looking more closely at the role that Arabs play in the stories since Camus is often accused of writing about an Algeria without Arabs. I contend that Camus had a far more complicated vision of his native country and the tensions that pervaded it at the time.
Desired Student Qualifications: Fluency in French, knowledge of contemporary French history.
Project Timeline: 5 years
Duties of Student Researcher: To help me track down obscure texts in French and to discuss the material with me.
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