Laetitia Chance
Credentials: PhD Candidate in French
Email: lchance@wisc.edu
Address:
650 Van Hise Hall
- Fall 2025 Office Hours
- n/a
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; female body transformation/deconstruction; postcolonial studies; 18th century literature
Dissertation Title
Monstrer et démonstrer Condé et Devi: Une poétique créole dans tous ses états (provisional)
Courses Taught
- French 101: First semester French
- French 102: Second semester French
- French 204: Fourth semester French
- French 312: Advanced Writing Workshop in French
- French 322: La Mémoire en conflit dans la littérature française et francophone des XIXe-XXIe siècles (guest lecturer)
- Literature in Translation 302: What is Life? Biological Life in Literature and Culture (reader/grader)
- Literature in Translation 303: French Love. Philosophical Theory and Literary Practice (discussion instructor)
Conference Presentations
- “From Slave to Superorganism: Liminality, Porosity, and Rhizome in Chamoiseau’s Slave Old Man.” GAFIS Symposium ‘Exploring the Liminal,’ University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2025.
- “The Womb and Wake in Crossing the Mangrove: Navigating Location, Identity, and Memory.” Research Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2024.
- “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, Tucson AZ, April 2023.
- “The Evolution of the Libertine Subject: From Dom Juan to Madame de Merteuil.” 55th Annual Comparative Literature Conference, CSULB, April 2021.
- “L’Amant de Marguerite Duras: Langage déconstruit et absence maternelle, une écriture féminine.” 2nd Arizona Graduate Conference in French, University of Arizona, February 2020.