Speakers
- Cecile Bishop
- New York University, Assistant Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
Cécile Bishop is Assistant Professor of French at New York University. Before joining NYU, she was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work focuses on francophone postcolonial literatures and visual culture. She is the author of Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny (Oxford: Legenda 2014). Bishop’s current book project, Forms of Blackness, explores the process of figuration and materialization of race through blackness in a selection of visual and textual works from the French-speaking world. Bishop has published articles on this topic in Photographies, Word and Image, French Studies, and The International Journal of Francophone Studies. She is also the co-editor of a special issue of L’Esprit Créateur on ‘Race and the Aesthetic’, to be published in 2019.