
Education
- PhD, Yale
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Books
- Nation-Building, Propaganda and Literature in Francophone Africa. Indiana University Press, 2002.
- Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism.Indiana University Press, 2007.
- Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and RacismIndiana University Press, 2013.
- Noirs d’encre. Colonialisme, immigration et identité au cœur de la littérature afro-française.Paris: Editions La Découverte, 2013.
Co-authored books
- New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres.With John Conteh-Morgan. Indiana University Press, 2010.
- La France noire. Trois siècles de présences. With Pascal Blanchard, Sylvie Chalaye, Éric Deroo and Mahamet Timera. Paris: Editions La Découverte, 2011.
- La France noire. Présences et migrations des Afriques, des Amériques et de l’Océan Indien en France. With Pascal Blanchard, Sylvie Chalaye, Éric Deroo and Mahamet Timera. Paris: Editions La Découverte, 2012.
- Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems by Aimé Césaire. Translated and introduced with Annette Smith. Northwestern University Press, 2013.
Edited books
- Museums in Postcolonial Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 2010.
- A Companion to Comparative Literature.With Ali Behdad. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2011.
- Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution. With Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard and Sandrine Lemaire. Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Afroeuropean Cartographies. Cambridge Scholastic Publishing, 2014.
- Francophone Afropean Literatures. With Nicki Hitchcott. University of Chicago / Liverpool University Press, 2014.
- The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations. With Nicolas Bancel and Thomas David. London and New York: Routledge, 2014.
- L’invention de la race. With Nicolas Bancel and Thomas David. Paris: Editions La Découverte, 2014
- Vers la guerre des identités. De la fracture coloniale à la révolution ultranationale. With Pascal Blanchard and Nicolas Bancel. Paris: Editions La Découverte, 2016.
- The Colonial Legacy in France: Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid.With Pascal Blanchard and Nicolas Bancel. Paris: Indiana University Press, 2017.
- Sexe et colonies. With Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Böetsch, and Christelle Taraud. Paris: Éditions La Découverte,
- Visualizing Empire: Africa, France, and the Politics of Representation. With Steven Nelson and Rebecca Peabody. Getty Research Insititute Books, 2018.
Edited journals
- Francophone Studies: New Landscapes.With Françoise Lionnet. Modern Language Notes 4 (September 2003).
- Textual Ownership in Francophone African Literature. With Alec G. Hargreaves and Nicki Hitchcott. Research in African Literatures1 (Spring 2006).
- Global Francophone Africa. Forum for Modern Language Studies2 (April 2009).
- Museums in Postcolonial Europe. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal2 (July 2009).
- Francophone Documentary Film.With Philippe Met. Special double edition of French Forum 2-3 (Spring/Fall 2010).
- Francophone sub-Saharan African Literature in Global Contexts. With Alain Mabanckou. Yale French Studies120 (2011).
- Racial Advocacy in France. French Cultural Studies2 (May 2013).
- The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and Their Aftermath. With Cécile Alduy and Bruce Cornellier. OCCASION, Volume 9 (2015).
- Global France, Global French. With Leslie Barnes. Special issue of Contemporary French Civilization, Volume 42, Issue 1 (April 2017).
Translations
- Alain Mabanckou. The Tears of the Black Man (Le Sanglot de l’Homme Noir). Indiana University Press, Global African Voices series (2018).
- Emmanuel Dongala. Jazz and Palm Wine (Jazz et vin de palme). Indiana University Press, Global African Voices series (2017).
- Abdourahman Waberi. Harvest of Skulls (Moisson de crânes). Indiana University Press, Global African Voices series (2017).
- Sony Labou Tansi. The Shameful State (L’état honteux). Indiana University Press, Global African Voices series (2016).
Fellowships, Residencies and Other Appointments
- Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, Cambridge University, U.K., 2004
- Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, 2009
- Invited Researcher, Musée Quai Branly, Paris, France, 2010
- German-American Fulbright Commission Award (Germany and Belgium), 2011
- Inaugural Magnet Scholar, Amherst Five-College Faculty Seminar, April 2011
- Research Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2011-2012
- Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2015
- Distinguished Foreign Visiting Scholar, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 2015
- Visiting Scholar, Faculty Enhancement Program, University of Montana, March 2016
Honors & Awards
- Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, French government, 2016
- Elected to the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea), September 2015
- German-American Fulbright Commission Award (Germany and Belgium), 2011
- Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, French government, 2007
Editor
Global African Voices book series, Indiana University Press: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/index.php?cPath=1037_3130_9764