Biography
Jennifer Forrest is professor of French at Texas State University. She is the author of Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in Fin-de-Siècle France (Routledge 2019); co-editor of Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice (SUNY 2002), the editor of The Legend Returns and Dies Harder Another Day: Essays on Film Series (McFarland 2008), and co-editor of the double-issue of Dix-Neuf (2017) Matter Pools: Fluidity and Containment in French Decadent Literature: Essays in Honour of Robert Ziegler. She is the author of articles on film remakes, sequels, film series, and (re)adaptations. She is also the author of studies on French fin-de-siècle literature and popular mediums, in particular in their relation to the cult and culture of the circus. She is currently working on a book on acrobats and early silent French film.
Research Interests
Decadent Literature (France); the Circus in 19th-Century France; French silent film; French film of the 1930s; American film ; film and television remakes, film series, (re)adaptations, and film reboots
Teaching Interests
Literature: the Fantastic, the Science-Fiction Novel, the Graphic Novel, the Short Story;
Cinema: French film history, film analysis;
History: technology and the Paris World's Fairs from 1855-1900
Cinema: French film history, film analysis;
History: technology and the Paris World's Fairs from 1855-1900