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“Portrait d’une femme en exil ou l’art de dérouter les lieux communs”: Lecture by Dr. Agnes Schaffauser
October 20, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The UF France Florida Research Institute (FFRI) is delighted to welcome Dr. Agnès Schaffauser of the University of North Florida’s College of Arts & Sciences to give a lecture on “Portrait d’une femme en exil ou l’art de dérouter les lieux communs” as a part of the FFRI’s Francophone Artists, Bandes Dessinées and Diasporic Graphics project.
Agnès Schaffauser is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of North Florida. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on Francophone 20th and 21st century literary productions. Her article “‘The Toxic Father’ and ‘the Healing Daughter’ in Marie NDiaye’s Three Strong Women” appeared in The French Review. In addition, her research focuses on literature and film from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. She has published a collective volume on French-Algerian writer Salim Bachi in L’Harmattan in 2019. Her work also includes research on migration studies in contemporary novels, graphic novels, and films. Dr. Schaffauser’s most recent article, “The Wretched of the Sea: Clandestine Immigration and Graphic Artistry in Bessora and Barroux’s Alpha: Abidjan to Paris” appeared in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society in 2021.
Her lecture at UF will focus on female migration in a Francophone graphic novel such as Alpha.
