Areas of specialization

African American Literature and Culture

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Psychoanalysis

Theories of the Subject

Epistemology and Methodologies in Social Sciences and the Humanities (Transdisciplinarity)

Black Thought, Literature, and Culture

Professional Appointments

September 2011-: Full Professor of American Studies at the Université Gustave Eiffel (formerly known as Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée). First Class since June 2015.

2001-2011: “Maître de Conférences en Littérature américaine” (Associate Professor in American Literature), Université Paris-Diderot.

2000-2001: “Attaché temporaire d’enseignement et de recherche” (Assistant Professor), Université de Tours.

1998-2000: “Monitorat” (Teaching Assistant), Université Paris IV-Sorbonne.

1995-1996: “Lectorat” (University French Assistant), Department of Business Policy and Marketing, University of Central England Business School, Birmingham, the United Kingdom.

1995-1996: “Tutorat” (Tutorials in French), The Open University, Midlands, the United Kingdom.

1994-1995: “Assistanat” (High School French Assistant), Tudor Grange School and St Peter’s Catholic School, Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom.

Professional Experience and Service

At the Université Paris-Diderot (2001-2011)

Elected Member of the Faculty Board, Charles V Institute of English and Anglophone Studies, Université Paris-Diderot, 2003-2011.

Co-chair of the Equivalence of Degrees Committee, June 2003-December 2005.

Coordinator of the American Literature Courses, September 2003-September 2009.

Member of the Faculty Recruiting Committee (American Literature), February 2004-September 2008. 

Member of the Committee on the Master of Arts Diploma and the Bachelor of Arts Diploma.

Member of the “LARCA” Board (Research Group on Anglophone Cultures) (EA 4214). Co-director of the research program “Identités plurielles: formes, formations, transformations” (“Multiple Identity: Forms, Formations, and Transformations”).

Elected Member of the Scientific Board, Charles V Institute of English and Anglophone Studies, Université Paris-Diderot, 2008-2011.

Elected Member of the University Board, Université Paris-Diderot, 2009.

At the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée / Université Gustave Eiffel (2011-)

Elected Director Adjunct, IMAGER (EA 3958) “Institut du Monde Anglophone, Germanique et Roman” (Research Center on the English, German and Roman-Speaking Worlds), Universities Paris-Est Créteil and Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. 2013-2014.

Elected Deputy co-director, LISAA (EA 4120) “Littératures, Savoirs et Arts” (Research Center on Literature, Arts and Knowledge), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. 2015.

Elected Co-director of the Graduate School “Cultures et Sociétés” (Cultures and Societies), ED 529, Université Paris-Est, July 16, 2014-July 2020. The Graduate School “Cultures et Sociétés” includes 9 research groups in the Humanities and Social Sciences with some 280 doctoral students. http://www.univ-paris-est.fr/fr/-ecole-doctorale-cultures-et-societes-cs-/

Elected Member of the “Commission Permanente 11ème et 12ème sections” (“Recruiting Committee of Tenured and Non-tenured Academics in English and German Studies), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, since 2011.

Member of the “Comité de Pilotage de la Maison Internationale des Sciences Sociales et Humaines, Projet I-site UPE” (Steering Committee for the Creation of the International Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Université Paris-Est), since December 2014.

Representative of the Université Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée at the “Institut des Amériques” (since 2015).

To the Profession

Board member of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) (www.caar-web.org), 2009-2015. 

Books and Journals Peer-review Referee

For Rowman and Littlefield International and the following journals: Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines, Interfaces, Quaderna.

International Advisory Board

Of the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs (since 2020).

Of the Council of the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal's Gender Studies Program, South Africa. 

Member of the Editorial Board

Of the following book series “Global Critical Caribbean Thought,” Rowman & Littlefield International (since 2013); “Living Existentialism,” Rowman & Littlefield International (since 2020).

Of the following journals: Quaderna. E-rea, Revue Poli – Politique des Cultural Studies. 

Judge (Prizes)

Fanon Prize and other prizes of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

AFEA (Association Française d'Etudes Américaines) – Fulbright Prize for the 2019 best Ph.D. dissertation.

Université Paris-Est Prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation in Social Sciences and the Humanities.

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships Applications and Research Funding

Referee for the following academic institutions: Graduate School “Cultures et Sociétés” (2013-2020), Université Paris-Est; Institut des Amériques (since October 2014); Institut Emilie du Châtelet (2015).

Committee Member

Working Group on Racial, Gender-related, and Sexual Violence and Discrimination in Academia, Association Française d'Etudes Américaines, 2019-2021.

Memberships

Cercle d’Etudes Afro-Américaines (CEAA) (Association of African American and Diasporic Studies), 1999-present. 

Association Française d’Etudes Américaines (French Association of American Studies), 2000-present.

Collegium for African American Research, 2003-present.

Caribbean Philosophical Association, 2006-present.

Institut des Amériques, 2012-present.

Fellowships and Grants

Doctoral Fellowship, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne / French Ministry of Education and Research, 1997-2000.

Doctoral Fellowship, International Programs Fellowship, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, July-October, 1999.

Harvard Fellowship (Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation), Scholar-in-Residence at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, January 2007-June 2007.

Scholar-out-of-residence / Affiliate, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, 2007-2010.

Recipient of the Grant for Excellence in Research (“Prime d'Excellence Scientifique”) awarded by the French Ministry of Education and Research and the National Council of Universities (CNU), 2014-2017, 2019-2023.

CRCT (Congés pour recherche et conversion thématique) (Sabbatical Leaves for Research)

Université Paris-Diderot: January 2007-June 2007.

Université Paris-Est: September 2017-February 2018.

CNRS Fellowship (Délégation CNRS)

Joint research program associating the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (French Center for Scientific Research) and the Université Gustave Eiffel, 2019-2021. Temporarily affiliated with the research group LEGS (Laboratoire d'Etudes de Genre et de Sexualité / Research Group on Gender and Sexuality), UMR 8238, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis / Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre.

Projects selected for the fellowship:

1) “The Work of Death—The Desiring Subject, Rectification, and Non-being” 

2) “Psycho-sexualité, affectivité et sensibilité existentielle chez Frantz Fanon” (“Psychosexuality and Existential Affectivity in Fanon's Works”)

3) “Dear Jimmy: Correspondance —Etude de la production épistolaire de James Baldwin” (“James Baldwin's Epistolary Writings”).