FRANÇOISE LIONNET, Professor of French and Francophone Studies.  
Author of Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self- Portraiture(Cornell, 1989), and Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity(Cornell, 1995); co-editor of a special double issue of Yale French Studies entitled "Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, Nomadisms", and a special issue of Signs on "Postcolonial, Indigenous, and Emergent Feminisms."  

Professor Lionnet directed the 1995 NEH Summer Institute in French Cultural Studies on "Identities, Communities, and Cultural Practices." Her research interests include comparative and Francophone literatures, postcolonial studies, autobiography, and race and gender studies. Currently she is working on a book entitled Dissonant Echoes: Seduction and Disavowal in Postcolonial Novels, which is a study of Francophone Caribbean and Indian Ocean writers' re-appropriation of 19th- and 20th-century British and American classics. She is also Project Director for the Multicampus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies.   

Recently Published:  

    "Transnationalism, Postcolonialism or Transcolonialism? Reflections on Los Angeles, Geography and The Uses of Theory," Emergences: The Journal of Media and Composite Cultures (May 2000)

    "Questions de méthode: Itinéraires ourlés de l'autoportrait et de la critique" in Autobiographie et postcolonialisme (ed. E. Ruhe Rodopil, 1999).

Forthcoming projects:

Cities, Modernity, and Cultural Memory in France and the Francophone World a special issue of L'Esprit créateur (Fall 2001)

"A Politics of the 'We'? Autobiography, Race and Nation," essay for American Literary History (March 2001)

"'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, Spring 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).

 

Professor Lionnet has held fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the SSRC, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell, the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California-Irvine, and the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. She serves on the editorial and advisory boards of several journals and university presses.

 
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