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Jarrod Hayes |
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French and Francophone Literature Interests and Current Work My work is situated at the intersection of Queer Theory and Postcolonial Studies. Originally, I focused on representations of non-normative sexualities in Maghrebian literature, but increasingly not only has my work moved into other Francophone regions (Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Québec, Asia, Louisiana), but it has also become more comparative (including Anglophone African literatures and Southern U.S. cultures, for example). My current project, Queer Roots, Queer Routes: Sexuality, Diaspora, and the Ghosts of Identity represents this expansion of my interests. In this project, I plan to examine the incorporation of the notion of roots into articulations of lesbian and gay identities in spite of the fact that the concept relies on a notion of the family tree that depends on heterosexual reproduction. A number of African and Caribbean accounts of the origins of identity, for example, propose alternative and even multiple roots, which also make room for dissident sexualities. I am also interested in questioning what it means to be American, particularly through the study of non-English cultures within the U.S. itself, which is why I have begun to study Louisiana as a way of queering American identity. Recent and Selected Publications “Créolité’s Queer Mangrove.” Music, Writing and Cultural Unity in the Caribbean. Ed. Timothy J. Reiss. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2005. 307–32. Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. "Looking for Roots among the Mangroves: Errances enracinées and Migratory Identities." The Centennial Review 42.3 (1998): 459–74. >>more publications Recent graduate courses taught: French 670: African/Caribbean Literature (“Roots: Narratives of Origin and the Fiction of Identity”) French 670: African/Caribbean Literature (“Combat Literature”) French 670: African/Caribbean Literature (“African Sexualities”) French 680: Studies in Literary Theory (“Reading [as] Theory, Theory [as] Reading”) Romance Languages 681: Introduction to Graduate Study French 855: Special Topics Seminar (“American Races, French Cultural Studies: Towards a Comparative Approach to Critical Race Studies”) Recent undergraduate courses taught: French 274: French and Francophone Societies and Cultures (“Reclaiming French America”) Women’s Studies 340: Topics in LGBT Studies (“Reading Queer: Textual Strategies for LGBTQ Studies”) French 342: French and Francophone Cinema Taught in English (“How Do We Look?: Desire, Seduction, and the Filmic Gaze”) French 362: Québec/French Canadian Studies (“‘Je me souviens’: Memory and History in Québécois Literature, Culture, and Identity”) French 363: Caribbean Studies (“Métissage, Gender, and Identity in the French Caribbean”) French 364: African Studies/Maghreb (“Our Nations, Our Selves: Writing Maghrebian Identity”) |