Françoise Lionnet

Françoise Lionnet is Professor of French, Comparative Literature, African/African American Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard as well Distinguished Research Professor (emerita) at UCLA. She co-directed the prestigious Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities: Cultures in Transnational Perspective. She is a leading scholar in Francophone and comparative literary studies, and has published groundbreaking work in the fields of feminist literature, postcolonial studies, autobiography, and African, African-American, Caribbean and Mascarene Island studies. She is the former president of the American Comparative Literature Association.