Lecture by Professor Sonja Stojanovic

Lecture Title: : ”Cautionary Tale: Women Cashiers in Modern France”. 

Sonja Stojanovic  an Assistant Professor of French at Texas Tech University (TTU) and a scholar in memory studies, focusing on 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature. She authored Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely through Contemporary Fiction in French (2023) and co-edited ‘Taking Up Space’: Women at Work in Contemporary France (2022). Her current book project, Cautionary Tale, explores how cashiers are represented in French cultural works from the 19th century to today, with attention to gender, labor, and sociocultural imagination.