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LA 136, Missoula, MT 59812
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Benedicte Boisseron - ( Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures )


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Office Location: LA 440
Office Telephone: (406) 243-4004
E-mail: benedicte.boisseron@umontana.edu

 


Research Interests:

Creole Literatures and Cultures; North African and Sub-Saharan African Literature; Twentieth Century French Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Literary Theory; French Popular Culture

Education:

2006 Ph.D. in French Literature, University of Michigan

1997 M.A. in English Literature, Université Paris VII— Jussieu

Selected Publications:

“A Creole Line of Escape: The Story of a Becoming-Dog”, Sites,  April 2006 ; 

“‘Je est un  Autre’: cherchons l’intrus dans l’écriture d’Amélie Nothomb co-authored with Frieda Ekotto, Etudes Francophones, Fall 05;

“Pays mêlés, chiens créoles: pour une écriture relais,” Etudes francophones, Summer 04 ;

“Jean Genet’s The Blacks: ‘And Why Does One Laugh at a Negro?,” co-authored with Frieda Ekotto, Genet (ed. by Mairéad Hanrahan), Edinburgh University Press, 2004 ;

“Post-Coca et Post-Coïtum: la logique logo chez Jerry Seinfeld et Guillaume Dustan,” L’Esprit Créateur: “L’intermedium Littéraire,” Summer 03;

“Cellules contaminées dans Mon frère de Jamaica Kincaid: le sida circule dans la famille,” Tessera, vol. 33/34: “Le sang,” Winter 03