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Felisa Vergara Reynolds
Felisa Vergara Reynolds is associate professor of French for the Department of French and Italian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her focus is on literature in French from the Antilles, West Africa and North Africa. And primarily works on the legacy and impact of colonialism on literature in French, from the former colonies, and is particularly concerned with the continued influence of colonialism in the postcolonial era and how it is represented in cultural production. Her book The Author as Cannibal: Re-Writing in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre (1969–95) was released in 2022 via the University of Nebraska Press. Recent articles include ‘Minority identities amidst an oppressive universalisme: The role of the podcast Kiffe ta Race in France’, in Podcasting Disruptive Voices: New Narratives of Race, Gender & Sexuality’, Contemporary French Civilization-Intersections (2023) and ‘The politics of colonization in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther’, Black Camera: An International Film Journal (Spring 2023), 14:2.
Contact: Department of French and Italian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2090 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building, 707 S. Mathews Avenue, MC-158, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.