Laure Astourian earned her B.A. in French and Film studies from the University of California, Berkeley (2008) and her Ph.D. in French from Columbia University (May 2016), where she completed a dissertation titled "Outside the Metropolitan Frame: The Nouvelle Vague and the Foreign, 1954-1968." This project examines the significance of the Nouvelle Vague critic-directors’ engagement with the world beyond metropolitan France, through close readings of films as well as archival documents pertaining to their promotion and reception. An article stemming from this research, “Jean Rouch, Ethnography and the French New Wave: On the Genesis of À Bout de souffle,” will be published in In the Wake of Jean Rouch: A Legacy 1917-2004 (Wallflower Press, 2017). In addition to French and Francophone film, Astourian’s research and teaching interests include twentieth-century French literature, post-1945 cultural history, and international film history. Astourian has since 2010 taught courses on French film, Francophone studies, conversation, and translation at Columbia University, where she was the recipient of the Jeanne Varney Pleasants Prize for Excellence in Teaching French in 2012. As the 2016-2017 Phi Beta Kappa Mary Isabel Sibley Fellow, she is preparing a book manuscript in which she examines the Nouvelle Vague in the context of the end of the French empire.
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