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Jean Ouedraogo

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

World Languages, Literatures & Cultures
French and Francophone Studies
Studies in World Literatures
Africana Studies

Contact

ojean@holycross.edu

Areas of Expertise

African and Caribbean Francophone Literatures and Cultures Anglophone African Literature African Cinema

Education

Ph.D., University of Georgia-Athens

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 â€™â€™ 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)