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