Julia Luisa Abramson is an Associate Professor of French with a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. She has affiliate appointments in the Department of Film and Media Studies, the Data Institute for Societal Challenges, and the Institute for Community and Society Transformation.
An experienced administrator, she has led the French programs at the University of Oklahoma for a decade. As the Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships, she negotiated collaborations among individuals and administrative units to support faculty research across the disciplines, and she designed and implemented a successful seed funding program that is the largest in the university's history specifically to target humanities and arts researchers engaged in ambitious interdisciplinary work. She has chaired the university-wide Budget Council and serves on the Faculty Senate Executive Committee.
Abramson has lived, studied, and worked in France. Her research and teaching focus on the old regime through the Napoleonic era, the Enlightenment, and contemporary culture and society. She has published more than 20 articles and authored two monographs: Learning from Lying: Paradoxes of the Literary Mystification (University of Delaware Press) and Food Culture in France (Greenwood Press). She is currently writing a new book, about financial culture.
