Aubrey Gabel
Graduate Student

Aubrey Gabel is a first-year PhD student who is currently focusing on the role of le fantastique in 19th century French realism literature; she hopes to further understand the parallel relationship between a genre transgression and other boundary crossings, be it a question of sexual, social, moral, or other narrative transgressions.

Her other interests include:

The question of Commitment in 20th century Resistance works, in particular, in Resistance theater

Le conte de fée and it's derivations--the translation and transcription of Fairy Tales and the influence of the Fairy Tale on 19th century literature and culture.

The Grotesque in literature, especially in the Southern United States 

Graduate Student Instructor of French 1