Natalie Brenner

Natalie R. K. Brenner has been a French and Francophone literary and cultural studies enthusiast since her own experiences as an undergraduate student at Kalamazoo College, and she has been teaching language courses since 2007 when she lived in France and taught English to middle- and high-school students. She has taught French in the U.S. since 2010 and has a deep respect and appreciation for the meaningful learning exchanges she has had with students from an increasingly diverse array of backgrounds. As a researcher and scholar, her work focuses on fiction and poetry written by Jewish women in the post-Holocaust and postcolonial period, and addresses the politics and poetics of memory and gender against the intersecting backdrops of post-Holocaust and postcolonial history. She is a part-time visiting assistant professor at Willamette University where she has taught since 2021, and her other full-time job is raising her young son. She enjoys spending family time with her son, partner, and rescue dog, being in nature, reading novels in French for fun, and wants to learn to play guitar someday.