Benedicte Boisseron
Office Location: LA 440Office Hours:
On Research Leave 2010 - 2011 (Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship)
at:
Institute for Latin American Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Field Of Study:
Caribbean Literature and Culture; Francophone Studies (Sub-Saharan and North Africa); Twentieth & Twenty-first Century French Literature; Modern and Postcolonial theory; French and Francophone Cinema; Women Narratives; African-American Literature
Education:
2006 Ph.D. in French Literature, University of Michigan
1997 M.A. in English Literature, Université Paris VII— Jussieu
Selected Publications:
Books
“The Francophone World.” Textbook under contract with Focus Publishing, co-authored with Astrid Billat.
“Voix du monde: nouvelles francophones.” Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, co-edited with Frieda Ekotto, 2011. (link)
Articles
“Intimité: entretien avec Maryse Condé.” The International Journal of Francophone Studies, 2010.
“Georges Bataille’s Laughter: A Poetics of Glissement.” French Cultural Studies, 2010.
“The Indirect Language of Love: Creole Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse.” The Australian Journal of French Studies, 2010.
“La galerie de Dany Laferrière : une poétique de l’espace créole.” Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, 2010.
Publications:
“Opposition métisse : Le marron au féminin dans ‘Rue Monte au ciel’ de Suzanne Dracius.” In “Métissages et marronnages dans l’oeuvre de Suzanne Dracius,” ed. by Yolande Helm, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2009.
“Potlatch transnational dans ‘Bleu-blanc-rouge’ d’Alain Mabanckou.” Dalhousie French Studies, 2008.
“A Creole Line of Escape: The Story of a Becoming-Dog.” Sites, 2006.
“Je est un Autre’: cherchons l’intrus dans l’écriture d’Amélie Nothomb.” Etudes Francophones, 2005.
“Pays mêlés, chiens créoles: pour une écriture relais.” Etudes Francophones, 2004.
“Jean Genet’s ‘The Blacks’: ‘And Why Does One Laugh at a Negro?’” In “Genet,” ed. by Mairéad Hanrahan, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2004. (with Frieda Ekotto).
“Post-Coca et Post-Coïtum: la logique logo chez Jerry Seinfeld et Guillaume Dustan.” L’Esprit Créateur: “L’intermedium Littéraire”, 2003.
“Cellules contaminées dans ‘Mon frère’ de Jamaica Kincaid: le sida circule dans la famille.” Tessera, 33/34: “Le sang”, 2003.
