Ana Oancea
Assistant Professor of French
University of Delaware
225 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Dr. Oancea is an Assistant Professor of French with the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Dr. Oancea's research and teaching interests are in 19th-century French literature and culture, including popular and visual culture, science and literature, as well as in film and new media. Her courses cover topics ranging from French fantastic literature to bande dessinƩe. In addition to discovering great works, in these courses students engage with criticism and theory.
Her book manuscript analyzes the literary representation of inventors in the larger context of the 19th century's narrative of progress. It brings together decadence, naturalism, and early science fiction, engaging with the role of science in French discourse of national identity.
Degrees
MA, MPhil, Ph.D. Columbia University
B.A. University of Virginia
Publications
āContemporary Values Encounter Classic Illustrations in Rebecca Solnitās Cinderella Liberator (2019).ā Forum for Modern Language Studies 58.4, 2022: 413ā431.
"Mind the knowledge gap: Ex Machinaās reinterpretation of the female android." Science Fiction Film and Television 13.2 (2020): 221ā245.
"SalammbƓ in the Third Degree: From Novel to BD to Video Game." Etudes francophones 32 (2020): 110-128.
"Black Skin, Black Mask: The Subalternās Quest for Transformation in Jean-Paul Civeyracās Mon Amie Victoria." French Screen Studies (2020) 20.1, 67-86.
āLiterature and Vivisection: Reevaluating Emile Zolaās Interpretation of Claude Bernard.ā Neohelicon 45.2 (2018): 671-687.
āHeredity Beyond the Rougon-Macquart: The Case of Travail.ā French Forum 42.2 (2017): 233-248.
āThe Temptation of the Material in Jean Lorrainās Fairy Tales.ā Dix-Neuf 21.2-3 (2017): 178-191.
āVerne at Lyon's FĆŖte des LumiĆØres: New Media, Old Dystopia.ā Romance Notes 57.3 (2017): 497-511.
āEdisonās Modern Legend in Villiersā LāEve future.ā Nordlit 28 (2011): 173-187.
ā1830 sous le rire mĆ©phistophĆ©lique de Julien Sorel.ā Acta Iassyensia Comparationis 7 (2009): 163-172.
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