Seminar Series on Édouard Glissant at the Graduate Center, CUNY
The seminar room in the French Program
Chadia Chambers-Samadi is an Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies at the University of the Bahamas. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in French and in Performance Studies at Stendhal University in the French Alps before moving to England, where she completed an MA in European Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. She then moved to the USA, where she earned an M.Phil and a Ph.D In French at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she was Édouard Glissant’s student and a member of his poetry club.
She is the author of Repression des Manifestants Algériens, an interdisciplinary study about the Paris massacre of Algerians on October 17, 1961, published in by L’Harmattan Paris in 2015. Her recent publications indicate a particular interest in France and in the French-speaking world in North Africa, in the Indian Ocean, and in the Caribbean region (Haiti, Guadeloupe).
Eric Lynch is an Assistant Professor of French at Midwestern State University (Texas). He studied with Édouard Glissant during his doctoral work at The Graduate Center. His research focuses on contemporary French poetry and intermedia. His recent publications include “Olivier Cadiot’s Robinson, or A Portrait of the Artist as ‘Auto–usine,’” (L’Esprit Créateur, 2014), “Mediums of Intermedia: Spiritism and Poetic Form in Suzanne Doppelt, Sandra Moussempès, and Nathalie Quintane,” (L’Esprit Créateur, 2018), and a forthcoming book chapter entitled, “Pierre Alferi, la conspiration à domicile” (Pierre Alferi, Garnier, 2019).
Paul Fadoul teaches French language and literatures at Queens College-CUNY. A student of Edouard Glissant, he incorporated aspects of Glissant’s theoretical works in his dissertation titled How to be a French Jew: Proust, Lazare, Glissant. He has published in International Journal of Francophone Studies. His varied areas of interest, which include the Caribbean, the Middle East and West Africa, reflect his life experiences. He worked until 2007 in industry and commerce in Haiti, Nigeria, Lebanon, New York and Paris where he became familiar with the cultures and lifestyles of the French-speaking world.
Hamid Bahri is Associate Professor at York College (City University of New York). He teaches Arabic, French, Francophone Studies and world literature. His research focuses on identity and ethnicity, postcolonial studies, film and literature. He has done numerous book reviews, including on Jefferey Einboden’s The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction and Florence Martin’s Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women’s Cinema. He is editing a book manuscript entitled Images of the Father, Islam and Others in the Francophone Maghrebian Novel. His publications also include “Race and Color in the Age of the Arab Spring in North Africa” in Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa (London & New York: Routledge Publishing, 2014) and an article on “Civilization and Otherness: The Case of Driss Chraibi” in Journal of Arts and Humanities vol. 3, no. 1 (2014): pp. 64–69.
The Seminar Organizers
Cara Jordan is the Assistant to the Director and Provost’s Fellow in the Arts in the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is also an art historian, editor, writer, and educator whose research focuses on contemporary political, activist, and socially engaged public art. In 2017, she obtained her PhD in art history from the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she wrote about the conceptual legacy of the German artist Joseph Beuys in socially engaged art in the United States. Her research has appeared in FIELD, Seismopolite Journal for Art and Politics, and Public Art Dialogue, as well as the exhibition catalogue for Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect (Bronx Museum and Yale UP, 2017). She has taught at CUNY’s Hunter College, Kingsborough Community College, and City College, and has curated numerous public art projects and events in New York. Alongside her position at the Center, she currently serves as editor of Peter Halley’s catalogue raisonné (JRP|Ringier, 2018) and works as a freelance editor in New York, Buffalo, and Berlin.
Francesca Canadé Sautman is Director of the Henri Peyre French Institute, and Professor of French at Hunter College and of French and History at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She was the Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in French from 1998 to 2008, during much of Edouard Glissant’s tenure at the Graduate Center, and often translated or interpreted for him. She writes on gender and women’s history, historical ethnology, material culture, and modern ethnic studies. Her essay “Creolizing the Lack: Interpreting Race and Racism in Italian America,” ( 2011) is largely informed by his thought. As a medievalist/early modernist, she authored La Religion du Quotidien: Rites et croyances populaires de la fin du Moyen Age (1995), was associate editor for the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (2007), co-editor of Same-Sex Love and Desire among Women in the Middle Ages, (2001) and of Telling Tales: Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition, (1998).
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Paul Fadoul teaches French language and literatures at Queens College-CUNY. A student of Edouard Glissant, he incorporated aspects of Glissant’s theoretical works in his dissertation titled How to be a French Jew: Proust, Lazare, Glissant. He has published in International Journal of Francophone Studies. His varied areas of interest, which include the Caribbean, the Middle East and West Africa, reflect his life experiences. He worked until 2007 in industry and commerce in Haiti, Nigeria, Lebanon, New York and Paris where he became familiar with the cultures and lifestyles of the French-speaking world.