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Françoise Lionnet

Teaching & Research Interests

Comparative and Francophone literatures, postcolonial studies, autobiography, and race and gender studies

Background

  • Ph.D. University of Michigan
  • previously at Northwestern University where she held the Pearce Miller Professorship in Literary Studies until 1998
  • Visiting Professor, Romance Studies, Duke University, 1996
  • Special Professor, Department of French, University of Nottingham, UK, 2003-06
  • Directeur d'études associé, EHESS, Paris, 2004

Selected Publications

Books

  • Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Cornell, 1989)
  • Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity (Cornell, 1995)
  • Minor Transnationalism, co-edited with Shu-mei Shih (Duke, 2005)
  • The Creolization of Theory, co-edited with Shu-mei Shih, (under contract, Duke)
  • Dissonant Echoes (in preparation)

Edited volumes

  • Special double issue of Yale French Studies "Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, Nomadisms" (82 and 83, 1993)
  • Signs on "Postcolonial, Indigenous, and Emergent Feminisms" (1995) and "Development Cultures" (2004)
  • L'Esprit créateur (Fall 2001) on "Cities, Modernity, and Cultural Memory in France and the Francophone World"
  • Comparative Literary Studies, "Intra-National Comparisons" 40: 2 (Spring 2003), co-edited with D. Castillo and P. M. Lutzeler.
  • MLN, "Francophone Studies: New Landscapes" 118: 4 (Oct. 2003), co-edited with Dominic Thomas.

Selected Recent articles

  • "Ces voix au fil de soi(e): Assia Djebar et le détour du poétique," L'Esprit créateur (Winter 2009).
  • "The Heart of the Matter: Critical Conventions, Literary Landscapes, and Postcolonial Ecocriticism" French Global; A New Approach to Literary History, ed. Christie MacDonald & Susan Suleiman, (Columbia UP, 2009).
  • "Continents and Archipelagoes: From E Pluribus Unum to Creole Solidarities," PMLA 123.5 (October 2008):1503-15.
  • "Disease, Demography and the Debré Solution: Broken Promises and Stolen Children in Réunion Island (2006, 1966 1946)," International Journal of Francophone Studies 11/1+2 (2008): 211-27.
  • Postcolonialism. Language and the Visual: By Way of Haiti," Journal of Postcolonial Writing 44.3 (September 2008): 227-239.
  • " 'The Indies': Baudelaire's Colonial World," PMLA 123. 3 (May 2008): 723-36.
  • Feminisms, Genders, Sexualities," Anne Donadey with F. Lionnet in Introduction to Scholarship 3rd Editionp, ed. David Nichols (MLA Publications, 2006): 225-44.
  • Cultivating Mere Gardens? Comparative Francophonies, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms," ed, Haun Saussy, Comparative Literature in A Global Age, (Johns Hopkins Press, 2006): 100-13.
  • "Fanon," ed. Lawrence Kritzman, Columbia History of 20th century French Thought (Columbia UP, 2006), 518-520.

Professional Activities

  • Director, Global Fellows Postdoctoral Program (2005-2007)
  • Co-Director, Mellon Postdoctoral Program
  • Executive Council MLA 1998-02
  • Advisory Board, ACLA 2003-06
  • MLA representative to the ACLS (2003-06)
  • Board of Governors, UCHRI (2004-09)

Honors and Awards

  • 2002 Best Mentor Award from Women in French (WIF)
  • Professor Lionnet has held fellowships and grants from the Cornell Society for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the SSRC, the United Nations Fund (UNFPA), the UCHRI, the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California-Irvine, the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the NEH. She directed the NEH/Northwestern Summer Institute in French Cultural Stdudies in 1995.
  • In June 2003, she held a residency fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center.