Audrey Burba is a native of France educated in the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in French from Emory University and a joint appointment in the Department of French and Italian and the Humanities Program at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder.
Professor Burba's work explores the intersections of literature, culture, and health in the modern context. Her research focuses on cultural and literary representations of illness and the body in the modern period. Her teaching and research interests include medical history, 19th-21st century French literature and critical thought, feminist theory, women’s writing, and the semiotics and sociology of culture. For the Humanities Program, she offers courses on visual culture, women’s artistic traditions, semiotics, and medical humanities.
Courses
HUMN 1002 Visualizing Culture: An Introduction to Humanities
HUMN 3200 Fictions of Illness: Modern Medicine and the Literary Imagination
HUMN 4070 Making Meaning: Language, Myths, Dreams
HUMN 4720 Architecture and the Feminine