Francophone and Postcolonial Studies

Related Faculty    research centers

journals and publications   funding opportunities

French & Francophone Faculty

Patrick COLEMAN (Ph.D., Yale)
Canadian Studies, Quebec Literature, Eighteenth Century, the Novel, Rousseau.

Françoise LIONNET (Ph.D., Michigan)
Autobiography, cultural studies, and race and gender studies.

Alain MABANCKOU (D.E.A, Université de Paris-Dauphine)
Francophone sub-Saharan African Literature, African American Literature, Creative Writing.

Dominic THOMAS (Ph.D., Yale)
Francophone literatures, immigration in contemporary France, post-colonial studies.
 

Research Centers & Resources

The Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group An interdisciplinary community of scholars in the humanities and the social sciences from throughout the University of California system whose purpose is to collaborate on the study of minority discourse across national boundaries (transnational) with attention to colonial and neocolonial processes (transcolonial).

Journals & Publications

The project directors of the Transnational and Transcolonial Multicampus Research Group are planning a first volume of essays under the title "Minor Transnationalisms". At the moment, Cornell University Press and University of Minnesota Press have expressed initial interest.

Funding Opportunities

Graduate Student Research Paper Competition
Sponsored by the Transnational and Transcolonial Multicampus Research Group. Papers should be between 20 and 30 pages, and 5 copies of the paper should be submitted. The winning paper will receive a prize of $1,000 and will be presented at the international conference. Paper topics vary from year to year. Contact Francoise Lionnet, Department of French, or Professor Shu-mei Shih, Comparative Literature, UCLA for more information.

Research Assistant Mentorship Competition
The Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Resarch Group, will provide an RA mentorship (full scholarship with fees, non-resident fees excluded) for an exceptional graduate student working on comparative minority discourse. UCLA graduate students who are engaged in the studies of minority cultural, literary, social, political or other formations across the globe are encouraged to apply.

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