Jean Ouedraogo
Eleanor Howard O'Leary Chair in French & Francophone Studies, Program Director of French & Francophone Studies

Courses
- Emerging Francophone Classics
- Francophone African Cinema
- Francophone Protest Poetics
- The Contemporary African Novel
- Topics in African Cinema
Clubs & Organizations
Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones African Literature Association
Recent Books
Sanou Kollo Daniel: Un Cinéaste au parcours singulier. (Co-author with retired cultural journalist Nouhoun THANOU) Ouagadougou: Mercury Editions, April 2024. ISBN 978-2-38379-021-1. 148 p.
Penser les passages dans les littératures et cultures africaines. (Co-editor with Isaac Bazié and Alain Joseph Sissao)
Québec : ESBC, 2022.
https://scienceetbiencommun.pressbooks.pub/passages/
ISBN for print: 978-2-924661-74-1
ISBN for the PDF: 978-2-924661-73-4
Recent articles
“Interview de Jacques Prosper Bazié ’’ in Hommage posthume à Jacques Prosper Bazié : Le poète du Kraal directed by Yves Dakouo. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso : Editions Céprodif, 2019. Pp. 349-371.
Awards & Distinctions
- Fulbright Scholarship for teaching and research at Université de Ouagadougou, Bukina Faso (2015-2016)
- US State Department Youth Leadership Prorgrams with Francophone Africa, 2011-2013. A grant valued at $328, 000 to bring 60 high school students and teachers to Plattsburgh & Washington, DC for a three-week program in leadership development, community service/civic engagement, and participatory democracy. Program director, 2011-2013.
- SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative activity, 2011.
- SUNY Chancellor's Award for Internationalization, 2005 & 2011.
- President of the Francophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (2008-2009)
- Vice President of the Francophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (2007-2008)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (2005) on African Cinema in Dakar, Senegal. June 8-July 6, 2005.
- Life Member of Pi Delta Phi Société d'honneur française
Teaching & Research Interests
- Francophone Literatures and Cultures
- Francophone Literatures in Translation
- Francophone African and Caribbean Cinema
- African Anglophone Literature
Professional Affiliations
- African Literature Association (ALA)
- American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
- Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones (CIEF)