Previously Pearce Miller Professor in Literary Studies @ Northwestern (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
Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA)
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA
Publications
“World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and Coolie Odysseys: The Case of JMG Le Clézio’s and Amitav Ghosh’s Indian Ocean Novels,” Comparative Literature, forthcoming 2015.
“Worlding Baudelaire: Geography, Genre, and Translation,” MLA series, Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire’s Prose Poems, ed. Cheryl Krueger. forthcoming 2015.
“Creole (creolization)” Encycopledia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2014.
“Mémoire, traduction et pouvoir: À partir des Fables créoles de Xavier Le Juge de Segrais,” Nouvelles études francophones 28, 2 (2013): 90-100.
“Conventions critiques, paysages littéraires et écocritique postcoloniale,” French Global, eds. Christie McDonald & Susan Suleiman, Paris: Garnier, 2014.
“Les femmes évanescentes du cycle mauricien: entretien avec Françoise Lionnet.” Réalisé par Eileen Lohka. Les Cahiers Le Clézio 6. Paris: Ed. Complicités, 2013. 113-23
“Consciousness and Relationality: Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Beauvoir and Glissant,” Yale French Studies 123 (July 2013): 100-17. In Rethinking Claude Lévi-Strauss, ed. Robert Doran.
“Languages, Literatures, Pedagogies: Africa and Diaspora Studies,” CLS 50.2 (2013): 219-27
“Littérature-monde, francophonie et ironie: modèles de violence et violence des modèles,” Parodies, pastiches, réécritures: la question des modèles dans les littératures francophones. Lise Gauvin & Cecile van den Avenne, eds. Lyon: ENS, 2013, 119-38.
“Shipwrecks, Slavery, and the Challenge of Global Comparison: From Fiction to Archive in the Colonial Indian Ocean” [Presidential Address, ACLA 2012] Comparative Literature 64, 4 (2012): 446-61.
“The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Memory,” Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, ed. Bettina Messias Carbonell (2nd Edition: Oxford: Wylie-Blackwell, 2012), 189-199.
“Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial Comparison,” A Companion to Comparative Literature, Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas, eds. Blackwell, 2011.
“World Literature, Francophonie, and Creole Cosmopolitics,” The Routledge Companion to World Literature, Theo D’haen, David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir, eds. Routlege, 2011.
