
Valérie Loichot, Associate Professor (Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies, Louisiana State University, 1996). 20th and 21st-Century French and Francophone literature and culture; Caribbean literature; postcolonial theory.
Author of Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literatures of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (University of Virginia Press, New World Studies, 2007). She has also published essays on Caribbean literature and culture, Southern literature, creolization theory, transatlantic studies, feminism and exile, and food studies in Callaloo, Études francophones, Francographies, French Cultural Studies, The French Review, The International Journal of Francophone Studies, The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Mississippi Quarterly, Meridians, Mots pluriels, La Revue Frontenac, La Revue Française and Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the poetics and politics of consumption in Caribbean literature.
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