Teaching and Research Interests

• African Literature
• French Politics
• Faculty Advisory Committee for the Inter-departmental programs in:
  • Global Studies: http://international.ucla.edu/idps/globalstudies/
  • European Studies: http://www.international.ucla.edu/idps/euro/
  • African Studies: http://www.international.ucla.edu/idps/africanstudies/minor.asp
  • M.A. Program in African Studies: http://www.international.ucla.edu/idps/africanstudies/masters.asp

Background

• Ph.D Yale University, 1996
• Dr. William M. Scholl Foundation Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, 1996-2000
• Visiting Scholar, Program in African Studies, Northwestern University, January 1999 -May 1999
• Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1999-2000
• Assistant Professor, Department of French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000-2002
• Associate Professor, 2003-2006
• Professor 2006-
• Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, U.K., 2004

Selected Publications

• Nation-Building, Propaganda and Literature in Francophone Africa. Indiana University Press, 2002.
• Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism. Indiana University Press, African Expressive Cultures Series, 2007.
• Francophone Studies: New Landscapes. Co-edited by Françoise Lionnet and Dominic Thomas, eds. Modern Language Notes 118, 4 (September 2003).
• Textual Ownership in Francophone African Literature. Co-edited by Alec G. Hargreaves, Nicki Hitchcott, and Dominic Thomas. Research in African Literatures (2006).