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Evie Munier, PhD earned her PhD in French and Francophone Studies from Indiana University, in 2023.

Before joining Â鶹APPin 2025, she taught French at Middlebury College in Vermont, as well as French and Gender Studies at St Mary’s College of Maryland.

Dr. Munier’s interdisciplinary research examines the representation of intersectional identities in contemporary French cinema (2000–2025), with a particular emphasis on banlieue cinema. Drawing on gender studies, postcolonial studies, and film and media studies, her work explores how contemporary French films depict and negotiate issues of gender, class, race, religion, and sexuality.

She is also a member of the Gender Studies Council at UNG.

Manuscripts

“Changing the Banlieues from the Inside: Grassroots Initiatives and Giving Back in Contemporary Banlieue Cinema,” (under review at French Screen Studies).

“Féminité hybride, féminité dansée : performances de genres et oralité dans Bande de Filles et Divines, ” Modern & Contemporary France, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2021.1932781.

Chapters in edited volumes

“From Historical Rewriting to Political Resistance: Historicizing Queerness and Reimagining National Narratives of Belonging in Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu and Toutes Pour Une,” La (r)évolution sera queer: Queer Resistance in the French and Francophone World. Eds. Cris Robu and Olivier Leblond.

“Deessentializing Patriarchal Islam, Recentering Female Spirituality: The Examples of Divines (2016) and Mignonnes (2020),” Gender in French Banlieue Cinema: Intersectional Perspectives, eds. Marzia Caporale, Claire Mouflard, and Habib Zanzana. Lexington Books, 2024, 13-30.