Aubrey Gabel is an assistant professor of French at Columbia University and a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, culture, and visual media. Her first book, The Politics of Play: Oulipo and the Legacy of Literary Ludics, is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press (2025). She is also the founder of the Comics and Graphic Albums University Seminar at Columbia and a freelance translator and interpreter.
Aubrey Gabel
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Writing on Public Books
Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial
In both “Saint Omer” and “Anatomy of a Fall,” we are meant to identify with the defendants—albeit for different reasons.
A Dad Cartoonist Travels into Factory Life
The artist comes as a class outsider to the factory, marveling at the complexity of its machinery and the dexterity and dangers of manual labor.
