Dr. Julia Praud, Ph.D. Associate Professor French Program Director English and World Languages julia.praud [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Dr. Julia Praud received her bachelor’s degree in French from Ohio State University. While an undergrad, she completed her junior year abroad at the Université Lumière Lyon II. She completed her Master’s in French through Bowling Green State University, spending the first year of the two-year program at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, France. After completing her master’s, she returned to Ohio State to pursue a doctorate in French Literature which she completed in 2005. Dr. Praud has taught French language, literature and culture at the United States Military Academy since 2010. She has served as French Program Director since 2016. Ph.D., French and Francophone Literature - Ohio State UniversityM.A., French - Bowling Green State UniversityB.A., French - Ohio State University Research Interests 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Literature, Post-Independence Literature from Francophone Africa, Francophone Women Writers Current Research Sound and Soundscapes in the works of Assia Djebar Selected Publications Praud, Julia (2023). “Le Chercheur d’Afriques: Henri Lopes, Créolité, and Jazz.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 27(4), 479-488.Praud, Julia (2022). “Assia Djebar et le voile du luxe.” Femmes et luxe: Perspectives littéraires, edited by Isabelle Tremblay and Soundouss El Kettani, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp.179-190.Praud, Julia (2021). “Gaël Faye: Intermediality and Creolization from Pili pili to Petit pays.” L'Esprit créateur 61(3), 64-77.Praud, Julia (2020). “Motherhood Redefined: Pregnancy, Pleasure, and Protest in Assia Djebar’s Les nuits de Strasbourg.” French Review 94(2), 97-109.Praud, Julia (2019). “Overcoming aphasia: erotic transgressions in Les nuits de Strasbourg” French Review 93(2), 111-121.Praud, Julia (2017). “Les nuits de Strasbourg: Creolization at the Crossroads of Europe.” French Review 91(1), 159-168.