Directors
Alexandre Leupin
Alexandre Leupin is a distinguished professor in the French department at Louisiana State University. Other than Édouard Glissant, his interests include medieval literature, literary criticism and theory, psychoanalysis, epistemology and history of science, religious studies, philosophy, and Medieval and Renaissance art and art history. Professor Leupin is the author of Édouard Glissant, Philosophe: Heraclite et Hegel dans le Tout-Monde; Proust en bref; Les entretiens de Baton Rouge (a book length interview of Édouard Glissant); Lacan Today; Psychoanalysis, Science, Religion; and several other renown books and articles. Among his many awards and honors are the LSU board of Regents ATLAS grant (2014); Distinguished fellow, Zentrum fur Mittelalter und Renaissancestudien (May 2012); Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich après le distinguished (2012); Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2000); Winner of the 2000 Distinguished Research Master of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the LSU Council on Research; Maxwell Cummings Lecturer at McGill University in Montreal (October 2001); and Distinguished Visiting Professor (“classe exceptionnelle”) at the Center for Medieval Studies at the Université de Poitiers (Summer 2002).
Valérie Loichot
Valérie Loichot is an Associate Professor of French and English at Emory University; a core member of Comparative Literature; and the Director of Graduate Studies, (Ph.D. in French, Louisiana State University, 1996). Her interests include Francophone studies; Caribbean literature and culture; literature of the Americas; and postcolonial theory. Valérie is the author of Orphan Narratives: ThePostplantation Literatures of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse and The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature. She also directed a special issue of La Revue des Sciences humaines in honor of her former mentor Édouard Glissant (Entours d’Édouard Glissant, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2013). In addition, Valérie has authored numerous articles on Caribbean literature and culture, Southern literature, creolization theory, transatlantic studies, feminism and exile, and food studies published in journals including Callaloo, Études francophones, French Cultural Studies, The French Review, The International Journal of Francophone Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, and SmallAxe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism. She is now at work on her third book entitled Caribbean Creolization in the United States: from Lafcadio Hearn to Barack Obama. Professor Loichot was a Visiting Professor at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III in 2011.
Editorial Board
Hugues Azérad
Hugues Azérad is a Fellow and College Lecturer at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he specializes in comparative literature, modernism and French poetry. He is the editor of the modern and contemporary French poetry and fiction sections of The Literary Encyclopedia and, with Marion Schmid, of a book series, European Connections: Studies in Comparative Literature, Intermediality and Aesthetics. He is the co-editor (with Peter Collier) of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology; (with Emma Wagstaff, Michael G. Kelly and Nina Parish) of a double issue of French Forum “Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945” (2012); of Chantiers du poème: Prémisses et pratiques de la poésie moderne et contemporaine (Lang, 2013) and (with Michael G. Kelly) of a special issue of L’Esprit Créateur, La Poésie à l’œuvre: Poetry, Philosophy, Politics (2015). He is the author of L’Univers constellé de Proust, Joyce et Faulkner: le concept d’épiphanie dans l’esthétique du modernisme (Lang, 2002). An article on Glissant and Guattari will be published in the Irish Journal of French Studies at the end of 2017.
Celia Britton
Celia Britton is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University College London. Previously she taught at KCL, Reading University and Aberdeen University. For about the first twenty years of her career she specialized in the avant-garde French novel of Nathalie Sarraute, Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras; she also published a number of articles on French cinema and literary theory and poststructuralism. Subsequently she has worked mainly on French Caribbean literature, in particular the novels and essays of Édouard Glissant, but also Maryse Condé and other writers from Martinique and Guadeloupe. She is also interested more generally in postcolonial theory, and in 2002 published a book on the influence of Freudianism in French Caribbean thought.
Michael Dash
Educated at University of the West Indies, Michael Dash is currently a Professor of French and of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His areas of research are Francophone and Caribbean Literature, as well as literary theory. Some of his published works include Culture and Customs of Haiti, The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context, Haiti and the United States and Literature and Ideology in Haiti: 1915-1961. Professor Dash has received a number of awards such as the U.W.I. Award for Excellence in Research; the Senior Fulbright Hays Award, and the Senior Fulbright Research Award. In the past, he worked closely with Édouard Glissant and also translated some of Glissant’s work from French into English.
Charles Forsdick
Charles Forsdick is the James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. Since 2012 he has been the AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures”. He has published widely on travel writing, colonial history, postcolonial literature and the cultures of slavery. He is also a specialist on Haiti and the Haitian Revolution, and has written widely about representations of Toussaint Louverture.
His publications include Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity, Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures, Ella Maillart, ‘Oasisinterdites’ and (with Christian Hogsbjerg) Toussaint Louverture: A BlackJacobin in the Age of Revolutions. He has also edited and co-edited a number of volumes, including Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction (Arnold, 2003), Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World (Liverpool University Press, 2009), Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-monde (Liverpool University Press, 2010), Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2013), among many others.
Michael Wiedorn
Michael Wiedorn is an Assistant Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech. Previously he served as an Assistant Professor at St. Edward’s University and as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University, after receiving his Ph.D. from the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. His book, Think Like an Archipelago: Paradox in the Work of Édouard Glissant, is forthcoming from SUNY Press. Other publications have appeared in The International Journal of Francophone Studies, Callaloo, the annual publication of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, and The Encyclopedia of the Novel, as well as in edited volumes in English and French. In 2014 he led a group of Atlanta-area public school educators to Dakar, Senegal under the aegis of a Fulbright-Hays/ US Department of Education Group Projects Abroad grant. Among others, Michael has offered courses on historical narratives by women writers in the Caribbean and the Maghreb, on African Cinema, and on French business culture and French civilization.
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