Alex Lenoble
Assistant Professor of French
- Office: USF Tampa CPR 425
Alex Lenoble is Assistant professor of French in the department of World Languages
at the 91社区 which he joined in 2019 after completing his Ph.D.
at Cornell University.
He teaches Francophone literature and culture, French cinema, French literature from
the 20th and the 21st century, literary theory, as well as language courses for undergraduate
students.
His research interests include Francophone and Caribbean literatures from the 20th
to the 21st century with a special focus on Haiti. He has published numerous articles
on the work of Frank茅tienne in French and American academic journals. Other research
interests include critical theory, postcolonial studies, queer and gender studies
and psychoanalysis (especially trauma theory).
He is working on a book project entitled, How to Occupy the Real: Postcolonial Literatures beyond Representation. It addresses the ways in which postcolonial literary works respond to a historical
exclusion of certain subjectivities from the symbolic. Occupying the real and putting
pressure on the borders of the symbolic by experimenting with literary forms is one
of the strategies authors use to express and overcome traumatic postcolonial experiences.