Amanda Parraguez is a graduate student in French and Francophone Studies. She received both of her Bachelor degrees in Applied Modern Language and in English from the University of Strasbourg. Then she pursued an MA in French and Francophone Studies at Syracuse University and graduated in 2020. During her master’s degree she focused on journeys of identity as well as liminal spaces and experiences in twentieth century French and Francophone literature by relying on psychoanalytical and psychosocial theories in particular. She’s interested in pursuing her work on postwar literature by women with authors like Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute or Marguerite Duras.