Dr. Adrienne Angelo is a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the U.S. Air Force Academy for the 2025–2026 academic year, a role she also held in 2022–2023 and 2023–2024. She is a Professor of French at Auburn University, where she has taught since 2006. Dr. Angelo previously taught at Emory University—where she earned her doctorate—and at the University of West Georgia.

She has taught a wide range of courses, including French language, conversation, composition, phonetics, and cinema, as well as advanced seminars on French and Francophone literature and culture. Her upper-level courses have explored topics such as migration and exile, crime fiction, fairy tales, science fiction, and contemporary authors.

Her research interests include life writing, memory and trauma, contemporary French and American feminisms, medical humanities and care theory, disability studies, migration and diaspora studies, and the scholarship of teaching and learning related to second-language acquisition. Her work has been published in Australian Journal of French Studies, French Cultural Studies, International Journal of Francophone Studies, Irish Journal of French Studies, Modern & Contemporary France, Roman 20-50, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literatures, and Women in French Studies.

Ph.D. Emory University (2000–2006)

B.A. Goucher College (1996– 2000)

Distinguished Visiting Professor, United States Air Force Academy (2025–2026)

Distinguished Visiting Professor, United States Air Force Academy (2022–2024)

Professor of French, Auburn University (2020–present)

Associate Professor of French, Auburn University (2012–2020)

Assistant Professor of French, Auburn University (2009–2012)

Assistant Professor of French, University of West Georgia (2008–2009)

Visiting Instructor of French, Auburn University (2006–2008)