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Graduate Student
Bio/CV:
I am a first-year PhD student in the French Department with a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the Evergreen State College and an M.A. in French from the University of Oregon. My MA thesis was a Fanonian reading of arguments for literary independence from the metropole within Senegalese author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s 2021 Prix Goncourt-winning novel La Plus secrète mémoire des hommes. At UC Berkeley, I intend to study works of 20th and 21st century francophone literature which straddle the ontological divide between fiction and history, as well as works whose syncretic compositional nature challenge metropolitan conceptions of authorship and originality.
When I’m not in the classroom, I like to spend my time cooking for friends, going to the movies, following Premier League soccer, and, as of recently, learning to play tennis.
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