Rachel E. Ney

Rachel E. Ney is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in French and Comparative Literature Studies. Prior to coming to Northwestern, she earned a Licence in English, a Maîtrise and D.E.A. in contemporary Anglo-American Literature at the University of Nancy II, France. Her areas of research are contemporary transnational French literature dealing with the American Southwest and Mexico (Antonin Artaud,Yves Berger, Le Clezio, Frédéric Temple), contemporary Anglo-American fiction from the Border (Cormac McCarthy) as well as problems of literary translations in multilingual and transnational sites. Her dissertation explores how death crystallizes transnational relations in terms of Hegelian dialectics and through the geographical mapping of the Unhappy Consciousness. She has published several essays in both French and English and has contributed to the first French critical volume on Cormac McCarthy.