Organising committee

Myriam Moïse is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at the Université des Antilles and a permanent researcher at the Laboratoire Caribéen de Sciences Sociales (LC2S CNRS UMR 8053). She holds a Doctorate in Postcolonial Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and a PhD in Literatures in English from the University of the West Indies. Her research fields include Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis, with a special focus on literary and artistic creations by African Caribbean women. Her research has been funded by several visiting research fellowships in Europe and the USA: New York University (Summer 2009), Brown University (Spring 2012), University College London (Summer 2018), and more recently, a Fulbright Fellowship at Emory University (Spring 2020). Dr Moïse has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals (Black Scholar Journal, Commonwealth Essays & Studies, Vertigo, Wagadu, Transversos Revista) and book chapters in edited collections (Routledge, Lexington, Houdiard, Garnier, Doce Calles). Her most recent work was published in 2020 by Palgrave MacMillan, the edited collection Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces. Dr Moïse is also Secretary-General of Universities Caribbean the organization of Caribbean universities and President of the Association La Fabrique décoloniale, an initiative launched by young Martinican scholars, historians and artists to foster debate, research and discussion around cultural decolonization.

Benaouda LEBDAI is University Professor at Le Mans university, previously at Angers University and Algiers University. He is a specialist in comparative colonial and postcolonial literature. He published more than sixty articles in African literature, in particular on Chinua Achebe, Peter Abrahams, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Zoë Wicomb, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Joseph Conrad, Winnie Mandela, Ngugi Wa Thiong’O, Ayi Kwei Armah, Okot p’Bitek, Stanlake Samkange, Rachid Boudjedra, Assia Djebar, Nina Bouraoui, Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. He published several articles on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Narratives. His critical studies deal with the complex relations between literature and history, orality, gender, identity, hybridity, migration and exile. His critical approach of texts is based on Postcolonial Theory as developed in critical works by Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Rimmon-Kenan or Achille Mbembe. Professor Benaouda Lebdai organised several international conferences on colonial and postcolonial literatures in France, Algeria, The United-States of America and Benin. He is a literary columnist: he contributed to Le Point Afrique, Jeune Afrique, El Watan, Revue des Etudes africaines and Africa Book review. He participated to the ‘Ateliers de la pensée’ of Dakar, Senegal. His latest book is Winnie Mandela : le mythe et la réalité (Alger, Casbah Éditions, 2018).

 Delphine LETORT is a Professor in American and Film Studies at the University of Le Mans (France). She has published Du film noir au néo-noir : mythes et stéréotypes de l’Amérique 1941-2008 (L’Harmattan, 2010) and The Spike Lee Brand: a Study of Documentary Filmmaking (SUNY, 2015). She has written articles about film adaptations, documentary filmmaking and African-American cinema in journals and co-edited several books (including Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films, 2018; Auto/biographies historiques dans les arts, 2017; Social Class on British and American Screens. Essays on Cinema and Television, 2016), two thematic issues for the CinémAction series (Revolutions armées et Terrorisme à l'écran, 2019; Panorama mondial du film noir, 2014). She serves on the advisory editorial board of Black Camera (Bloomington, Indiana) and has been the editor-in-chief of Revue LISA/LISA e-Journal which is hosted by revues.org (CLEO, CNRS, EHESS). Since October 2016, she has been the director of the 3L.AM research team – Langues, Littératures, Linguistique at the Universities of Le Mans and Angers (http://3lam.univ-lemans.fr/fr/index.html).

Dominique AURELIA is currently vice president for international affairs at the Université des Antilles and an elected administrative Board member of the UA. She is also Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Université des Antilles where she teaches postcolonial literature, with a special focus on Middle Passage narratives written by women. She has published essays and books on Caribbean literature, post-colonial theory, transatlantic studies, and Caribbean art in edited collections, and in journals Macomère, Cercles, Transatlantica, Small Axe. Her co-edited volume with Alexandre Leupin La Louisiane et les Antilles, une nouvelle région du monde, was published in 2019. Edouard Glissant, l’éclat et l’obscur is her latest co-edited work with Alexandre Leupin and J.P. Sainton, Presses Universitaires des Antilles, 2020.

Eliane ELMALEH  is a Professor in American civilization who teaches American history and civilization at the English Department of Université du Mans, France. Her fields of research are contemporary art, African-American art, feminist and political discourses, the American media and identity politics. She has published a number of articles in scholarly reviews such as Annales du Monde Anglophone, Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines, European Journal of American Culture, E-rea and LISA e-journal,  les cahier du MIMMOC  or Transatlantica and in collective works (Both Swords and Ploughshares, Interactions of War, Peace, and Religion in America from the War of Independence to the Present, Troubled Legacies : Minority Literatures between Impossible Inheritance and the Reinvention of Traditions, Mémoire(s), identité(s), marginalité(s) dans le monde occidental contemporain, Marges et Périphéries dans les pays de langue anglaise, Marginalité et politiques sociales, réflexions autour de l’exemple américain...) . She recently co-edited several books on power and resistance: Résistances, voix citoyennes en marge des institutions politiques (Resistances, citizen voices on the sidelines of political institutions), which describes and analyses the different political movements which recently emerged in countries such as Canada, Cuba, Spain, the US, Greece, France or Tunisia as a reaction to the global economic crisis or Argent, Pouvoir et représentations (Money, Power and representations), Aux Origines du conflit : pouvoir, domination, résistance (On the origins of conflict: power, domination, resistance) andL’Ouest et les Amériques, entre arts et réalités, which offers a number of different perspectives of the American West. She also co-organized many international conferences, including some with the collaboration of a group of universities (Le Mans, Paris Ouest Nanterre, Caen and Poitiers), Power Studies Network and the support of l’Institut des Amériques (IdA) whose Western France she has been the delegate of. She is currently Vice-President in charge of international relations at the University of Maine, Le Mans.

Christelle LOZERE est maître de conférences en histoire de l’art à l’Université des Antilles (CNRS UMR 8053 LC2S, équipe FRACAGE) et chercheuse invitée à l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’art. Sa thèse soutenue à l’Université Bordeaux III a été récompensée par le Prix du Musée d’Orsay 2011. Actuellement, ses travaux de recherches portent sur l’histoire de l’art de la Caraïbe francophone en contexte colonial XIXe-XXe siècles, les réseaux d’artistes et la circulation des imaginaires. Elle coordonne le programme international « Acteurs, images et pensées en réseaux Europe/Caraïbe 1920-1946 », lauréat de la FMSH et des « Rendez-vous numériques en histoire de l’Art des Antilles », carte blanche de l’INHA 2021.