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)
• 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

• "'She breastfed reluctance into me': Hunger Artists in the Global Economy," eds. Celeste Schenck and Susan Perry, Women, Culture, and Practices of Development (London: Zed Press, 2001).
• "The Mirror and The Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Representation," African Arts, Fall 2001
• "Gender, Empire, and Epistolarity: From Jane Austen's Mansfield Park to Marie-Thérèse Humbert's La Montagne des Signaux," ed. Margaret Cohen and Carolyn Dever, The Literary Channel (Princeton University Press, 2001).
• "National Language Departments in the Era of Transnational Studies," PMLA 117: 5 (October 2002): 1252-1254.
• "Creole Vernacular Theatre: Transcolonial Translation in Mauritius," MLN 118:4 (Oct. 2003): 911-932.
• "Translating Grief," ed. Sandy Berman and Michael Wood, Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation(Princeton Univ. Press, 2005).
• "Fanon," ed. Lawrence Kritzman, Columbia History of 20th century French Thought (Columbia University Press, 2005).
• "Cultivating Mere Gardens? Comparative Francophonies, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms," ed. Haun Saussy, Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (Johns Hopkins Press, 2006)
• "Feminisms, Genders, Sexualities," Anne Donadey with F. Lionnet in Introduction to Scholarship, ed. David Nichols (MLA Publications, 2006)

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.

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