Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François

Professional Bio

Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François is the Marian Trygve Freed Early Career Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies and an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, and Comparative Literature. Formerly a lecturer at the Mauritius Institute of Education, then a Mellon Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA, he was awarded the 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research and is the author of Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains, forthcoming at Brill. His research and teaching interests include the study of violence, transcultural and transnational identities, multi-ethnic societies and Creolization, Nation-State and global citizenships in Francophone and postcolonial literatures. His second book project focuses primarily on contemporary Indian Ocean literary and cultural studies. He is interested in the study of creolization models from this region and in exploring the ‘New Thalassology.’