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Biography

Hugo Bujon

Hugo Désiré Benjamin Bujon received his bachelor's degree in Lettres modernes and his master's degree in Littératures Comparées from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. He received his Ph.D. in Francophone Studies with a certificate in Psychoanalytic Studies from Emory University. Prior to joining Lehman as an Assistant Professor, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oxford College of Emory University. He has taught French language courses on the French language every level, on surveys of French and Francophone cultures, on interdisciplinary global representations of Black childhood, on Africana Francophone literature and arts, an on self-representation in France’s banlieues.

His research focuses on the writing and conceptualization of Black and postcolonial youth and childhood in West-Africa and the French banlieues (notably his native Seine-Saint-Denis). His articles and reviews have been published in Theory, Culture & Society, Éthiopiques, and Imaginaries. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively entitled Beyond Youth: Un-Writing Childhood in Francophone African Literature, and on a translation of Ken Bugul’s Aller et Retour with Julianna Blair Watson, an excerpt of which was published at Lean. He is one of the core members of the Global Black Studies Workroom.