Dr. Haklin’s latest article analyzes the psychological effects of claustrophobia in Jules Verne’s science fiction and is published Écrire le huis clos au XIXe siècle (Classiques Garnier, 2024). Her research on narratives of enclosure appears in Dix-Neuf, L’Esprit Créateur, and Modern Language Notes, as well as in Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums 1750-1918 (Amsterdam UP, 2021). She has co-edited two journal issues: “Connecting Characters in Modern and Contemporary French-language Fiction” (L’Esprit Créateur 63:3) in Fall 2023 and “The Poetry of Life, the Life of Poetry: Essays in Honor of Jacques Neefs” (MLN 136:4) in September 2021.

Professor Haklin teaches courses in literature, film, and culture at all levels. She regularly coordinates French language courses at the Intermediate and Advanced levels, and serves as faculty advisor to WashU’s student conversation group La Table Francophone. Committed to innovative and interdisciplinary course design, she has taught upper-level courses on a wide range of topics: “The Art of Health in Nice,” “Fashioning a Revolution: Style & Social Change in France, 1700-1900,” “Feminist Filmmaking,” “From Cholera to the Coronavirus: Medicine & Confinement in Modern France,” “Liberté, Égalité, Sororité: Women & French Film,” “Medical Narratives, Narrative Medicine,” “Not Another Fashion Victim: Shopping, Style, & Consumer Culture in Paris,” “Phobias,” and “The World Below.”