Odile Cazenave

Odile Cazenave is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Boston University. She is interested in francophone literature and cinema, especially that of Africa, the Caribbean, the Maghreb, and the Indian Ocean. She also focuses on modern French literature and culture, as well as feminist/gender and postcolonial theory. Odile Cazenave is the author of Femmes rebelles: naissance d’un nouveau roman africain au féminin (L’Harmattan, Paris 1996), and its translation, Rebellious Women (Lynne Rienner, 1999), and Afrique sur Seine: Une nouvelle génération de romanciers africains à Paris (L’Harmattan, 2003)/Afrique sur Seine: A New Generation of African Writers in Paris(Lexington Books, 2005). The guest editor for Présence Francophone 58, ‘Francophonies, Ecritures et Immigration,’ she has published numerous articles on women writers, on questions of identity, as well as on issues of displacement, (im)migration and globalization. She co-edited a special issue for Cultures Sud, 172, with Tanella Boni, on “L’engagement au féminin” and she just finished a manuscript with co-writer Patricia Celerier (Vassar College) on Engaging Literature: Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment.