Publications
If you have any trouble accessing any of the publications, please feel free to contact me.
Forthcoming work
Monograph: Imagining Brussels: Memory and Diaspora in Francophone Fiction (under contract with Liverpool University Press, 2021).
Special issue: with Sam Goodman, ‘Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science, and Imperialism’, special issue of
Social History of Medicine (accepted and forthcoming 2022).
Articles: with Sam Goodman, ‘Introduction: Ailing Empires – Medicine, Science, and Imperialism’, special issue of
Social History of Medicine (accepted and forthcoming 2022).
‘From Cairo to Katanga: (Sephardi) Jewish Identity and Photography in the Belgian Congo’, in ‘Jewish in/and Colonial Spaces’, special issue of
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, ed. by Yair Wallach. (accepted and forthcoming 2022).
Book chapter: ‘The Problem with French and the World: Imagining the Province and the Global in Francophone African Fiction’, in
African Literature as World Literature, ed. by Madhu Krishnan and Alexander Fyfe (under contract with Bloomsbury, 2022)
Peer-reviewed journal articles
• ‘Killer Stories: “Globalizing” the Grotesque in Alain Mabanckou’s
African Psycho and Leïla Slimani’s
Chanson douce‘,
Irish Journal of French Studies 20 (2020): pp. 143-172.
Available here.
• with Joseph Ford, ‘Introduction: Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature’,
Irish Journal of French Studies 20 (2020): pp. 1-13.
Available here.
• ‘Memory in Crisis: Commemoration, Visual Cultures, and (Mis)representation in Postcolonial Belgium’, in ’The Global Crisis in Memory: Populism, Decolonisation and How We Remember in the Twenty-First Century’ special collection, ed. by Eva Spišiaková, Charles Forsdick, and James Mark,
Modern Languages Open, 1 (2020).
Available here (open access).
• ‘Narrating the (Post-)Nation? Aspects of the Local and the Global in Francophone Congolese Writing’,
Research in African Literatures 49.1 (2018), pp. 22–41.
Available here.
• ‘Les géographies transculturelles et postcoloniales: Bruxelles dans les écritures de Mina Oualdlhadj et de Pie Tshibanda’,
Textyles: Revue des lettres belges de langue française 47 (2015), pp. 159–174.
Available here (open access).
• with David Cummings ‘Introduction: Memory/Amnesia and (Post)Colonialism’,
Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies 6.2 (2015), pp. 6–9.
Available here (open access).
Special issues (co-edited)
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Irish Journal of French Studies, special issue on ‘Revisiting the Grotesque in African Francophone Literatures’, with Joseph Ford (2020).
Available here.
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Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies 6.2 (2015), with Kate Marsh and David Cummings.
Available here (open access).
Book chapters
• ‘From Mobutu to Molenbeek: Belgium and Postcolonialism’, in
Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires, ed. by Lars Jensen, Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Christian Groes-Green and Zoran Lee Pecic (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), pp. 163–176.
Available here (open access).
• ‘De Mobutu à Matonge: la littérature contemporaine de la diaspora congolaise’, in
Créer en postcolonie. Voix et dissidences belgo-congolaises 2010-2015, ed. by Sarah Demart and Gia Abrassart (Brussels: Africalia, 2016), pp. 225–232.
Link to publisher’s website.
Book reviews
• Review of Filippo Zanghi,
Zone indécise: Périphéries urbaines et voyage de proximité dans la littérature contemporaine (Villeneuve d’Ascq: PU du Septentrion, 2014),
French Studies, 69.4 (2015), p. 571.
Available here (open access).
• Review of János Riesz,
Südlich der Sahara: Afrikanische Literatur in französischer Sprache (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2013),
Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies 6.1 (2015), pp. 20-21.
Available here (open access).
Other publications
• ‘The Problem with the Prophet: Review of Alain Mabanckou’s
Black Moses’,
Africa in Words Online Blog (2018).
Available here.
• ‘(Peer-)Teaching Postcolonial Studies: Workshop at the University of Edinburgh’,
Northern Postcolonial Network Online Blog (2016).
Available here.