Rate My Professor Ashley Byczkowski

Byczkowski's research examines written representations of the self and feminine relationships in women’s writing from the French-speaking world. Her first book project, “Feminine Selfhood: Mothers and Daughters in Francophone Women’s Life Writing (1827-2001),” uses psychoanalytic and feminist approaches to analyze the mother-daughter relationship's influence on the author’s self-construction in life writing. Key publications include “Derridean Deconstruction and Modernist Writer-Sons” in Journal of Modern Literature 46.1 (Fall 2022), “French Colonization of New France (Present-Day Canada)” in Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World (June 2022), and “Lin, Lana. Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer. New York: Fordham University Press” in Penumbr(a): A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Modernity vol. 1, no. 1 (2020). She contributes to university governance as a member of the Committee on College Teaching & Learning and the Women Studies Committee.