Biography

Julie is a first-year PhD student originally from Tours located in the Loire Valley, a region celebrated for its wine, cheese, and as the birthplace of Balzac and Rabelais (though she suspects the wine and cheese might be the real highlights). She spent the first 24 years of her life there and earned a B.A. in English, a professional degree in Communication, and an M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Tours.

In 2020, undeterred by a global pandemic, Julie embarked on her first transatlantic adventure to join CU Boulder as an exchange student. There, she began her teaching journey. Drawn back to the U.S., she returned in the Spring of 2022 to pursue an M.A. in the French department at CU Boulder before continuing her academic journey as a PhD student.

Selected Publications

• Catel, Julie. "La disparition de la langue française (2003) d’Assia Djebar: Donner voix aux spectres du passé" Analele Universității „Ovidius” Constanța. Seria Filologie, vol. XXXIV, no. 2, 2023, pp. 218.
   
• Catel, Julie (2024) "De la saleté a la poésie : portrait de la France périphérique dans l’Été des charognes de Simon Johannin," Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies: Vol. 3, Article 4.
  Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/tete_a_tete/vol3/iss1/4