Lydie E. Moudileno

Professor of Romance Languages

Francophone studies, with a focus on the literatures of the Caribbean and Sub-saharan Africa. Her regular seminars include: “Women and Colonialism,” “Exile and migration,” “Recent African fiction,” “Africa looks at Europe,” “Postcolonial France,” “Postcolonial theory” and “Francophonie, the Poscolonial and the Popular.”

She is the author of L'Ecrivain antillais au miroir de sa littérature (Paris: Karthala, 1997); Littératures africaines: 1980-1990 ( Dakar: Codesria Publications, 2003); and Maryse Condé, une nomade inconvenante, co-edited with Madeleine Cottenet-Hage ( Guadeloupe: Ibis Rouge Editions, 2002). While she keeps a strong interest in the literature from the Caribbean, her most recent publications have focused on contemporary African fiction, with a guest-edited volume of Présence Francophone on representations of the African body entitled “L’Exposition postcoloniale,” (2006) and Parades Postcoloniales (Karthala, 2007), a study of fictions of authenticity in Congolese literature.

She is also a member of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature.

• E-mail: moudilen@sas.upenn.edu
• Office: 546 Williams Hall
• Telephone: (215) 898-6034
• Fax: (215) 898-0933
• Office Hours: Fall 2008: On Sabbatical