Annabel Kim Receives Tenure

WGS Standing Committee member Annabel Kim has received tenure. As of July 1, Annabel will be promoted to Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Professor Kim's first book, Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions (Ohio State University Press, 2018), uses the collective corpus of Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig, and Anne Garréta to theorize a feminist poetics that hollows out difference and reworks our subjectivities in order to break free of identity and exist as subjectivities without subjecthood. Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Professor Kim's second book, works to combat the deodorization of the French literary imaginary and argues that the persistent excrementality of the modern French canon puts forth fecality as a corporeal, concrete corrective to abstract universalism as a site of exclusion and violence. Professor Kim's current book project, Ought to Fiction, is a critique of contemporary French literature's domination by autofiction and exofiction and its unquenchable thirst for the real.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Kim on this milestone!