Bénédicte Boisseron
French academic
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Bénédicte Boisseron is a French academic. She has worked as a professor at the University of Montana and University of Michigan. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Creole Renegades (2014) and Afro-Dog (2018).
Bénédicte Boisseron | |
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| Born | Paris, France |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow (2022) |
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| Thesis | Taking the Postcolonial Lead: Decentering the Metropole through Martinican Literature (2006) |
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Black studies |
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Biography
Bénédicte Boisseron was born in Paris.[1] Her father is a Black French native of Guadeloupe and her mother from Metropolitan France.[1][2] After obtaining her MA in English at Paris Diderot University, she moved to the United States to obtain her PhD in French and Francophone studies at the University of Michigan;[3] her doctoral dissertation Taking the Postcolonial Lead: Decentering the Metropole through Martinican Literature (2006) was supervised by Frieda Ekotto and Jarrod Hayes.[4]
After she spent some time as an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Montana.[5] she returned to UMich and became professor there, as well as chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.[3]
Boisseron specialises in Black studies.[1] She won the 2015 Caribbean Philosophical Association Award for Outstanding Book in Philosophical Literature for her book Creole Renegades.[6] In 2018, she released another book, Afro-Dog;[7] she had been inspired to write the book by local suspicions towards a dog her parents brought with them during their move into the Caribbean.[8] In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellow in Literary Criticism.[1]
In 2011, she and Frieda Ekotto were co-editors of a short story anthology named Voix du monde: Nouvelles francophones.[9] She and Astrid Billat co-authored La culture francophone, a French language education textbook published in 2016 by Hackett Publishing Company.[5]