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)

• Irish Journal of French Studies, special issue on ‘Revisiting the Grotesque in African Francophone Literatures’, with Joseph Ford (2020). Available here.

• 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.