Marion Tricoire
Professor Marion Tricoire (Ph.D., Emory University) is a teacher and scholar ofAfrican Literature and of the Francophone world. Her research interests include Sub-Saharan African literature, Francophone studies,urban humanities, postcolonial literatures, migration and diaspora studies, and literary translation. Her current research projectexplores how contemporaryurban literary fiction from Africa reimagines the city for its many hidden possibilities. In particular, her scholarly work discusses novels set inDakar, Kinshasa, Douala, Lagos, and Luanda.Professor Tricoire has published an article inFrench Reviewentitled,“Trajectoires Urbaines: Dakar au prisme d’Aller et Retourde Ken Bugul” (2019) and her article "Article 15 and theééchildren in Marie-Louise Mumbu’sSamantha à Kinshasa” is forthcoming (Fall 2020)inResearch in African Literatures.
Education and Degrees
Emory University, Ph.D. in French. Dissertation:Fictions of the Untold City in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa.
The American University of Paris, M.A. in Cultural Translation.
TheAmerican University of Paris, B.A. in Comparative Literature.