Laetitia Chance
Credentials: PhD Candidate in French
Email: lchance@wisc.edu
Address:
650 Van Hise Hall
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- Fall 2024 Office Hours
- Mondays & Wednesdays 11am-12pm & by appointment ; Contact via email
Education
- M.A. in French and Francophone Literature, California State University, Long Beach
- B.A. in Comparative and English Literature, City College of New York, CUNY
Research Interests
20th-21st century Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Francophone & Contemporary French literature; vegetation, space/landscape; body transformation & deconstruction; postcolonial studies; 18th century literature
Dissertation Title
Monstrer et démonstrer Condé et Devi: La poétique antillaise dans tous ses états (provisional)
Courses Taught
- French 101: First semester French
- French 102: Second semester French
- French 204: Fourth semester French
- Littrans 303 (Literature in Translation) – discussion instructor
- French 302 (Literature in Translation) – reader/grader
Conference Presentations
- « Agencement rhizomatique et déséquilibre racial dans Désirada de Maryse Condé », Research Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2024
- « Le devenir monstre au féminin dans Truismes de Marie Darrieussecq », 20th and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of Arizona, April 2023
- « L’Amant de Marguerite Duras: Langage déconstruit et absence maternelle, une écriture féminine. » Arizona Graduate Conference in French, University of Arizona. February 2020
- « The Evolution of the Libertine Subject: From Dom Juan to Madame de Merteuil. » 55th Annual Comparative Literature Conference, California State University Long Beach. April 2021