{"id":47228,"date":"2023-05-25T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=47228"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:18:31","slug":"jenai-engelhard-humphreys","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/jenai-engelhard-humphreys\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenai Engelhard Humphreys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenai Engelhard Humphreys specializes in 19th to 21st century French literature, thought, and culture. She is also a creative nonfiction writer and essayist with a master\u2019s in journalism. In addition to teaching various French courses at BU, she spent a year teaching English composition and translation at France\u2019s Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure in Lyon. Jenai also teaches a course called &#8220;Travel Writing: the Literary Pilgrimage&#8221; in BU\u2019s CAS Writing Program, and she is currently working on a lyrical essay that explores the concepts of neurodivergence\/autism in relation to art and literature.<\/p>\n<h3>Teaching Interests<\/h3>\n<p>Second language acquisition; the personal essay; travel writing; creative nonfiction; therapeutic writing for mental health; reading pedagogy; the poetics of translation<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>19<sup>th<\/sup> century French literature, thought, and culture; the Decadent movement in art\/literature; postcolonialism; visual culture<\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<p><strong>July 2022<\/strong>, \u201cSous-mission and the Mission Civilisatrice: Houellebecq\u2019s Parody of Empire and Decadence,\u201d <em>French Decadence in Global Context: Colonialism and Exoticism,<\/em> in the series Francophone Postcolonial Studies, Liverpool University Press.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017<\/strong>, November\/December issue of <em>Eighteenth-Century French World<\/em>, \u201cUn Regard camp sur <em>Manon Lescaut<\/em>: L\u2019esth\u00e9tisation du moral\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16662,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/47228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/47228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47229,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/47228\/revisions\/47229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}