An award-winning writer and filmmaker, Fabienne Kanor is also the Marian Trygve Freed Early Career Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, she has directed about fifteen documentary films and published ten books, including Humus (2006), Louisiane (2020), La poétique de la cale (2022), and La grande chambre (2024)