Dominic Thomas - Curriculum Vitae#
EDUCATION
Ph.D. French, Yale University, 1996
M.Phil. French, Yale University, 1994
M.A. French, Yale University, 1992
B.A. French and Philosophy, First Class Honours, University College London, 1989
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2015
Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA, 2013 to present
Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, 2000-2013
Dr William M. Scholl Collegiate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, 1996-2000
Research Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2011-2012
German-American Fulbright Commission Award (Germany and Belgium), Summer 2011
Inaugural Magnet Scholar, Amherst Five-College Faculty Seminar, April 2011
Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, March 2009
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa. Indiana University Press, 2002.
Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism. Indiana University Press, 2007.
Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism. Indiana University Press, 2013.
La France noire. Trois siècles de présences, eds. With Pascal Blanchard, Sylvie Chalaye, Éric Deroo, and Mahamet Timera. Paris: Editions La Découverte, 2011.
A Companion to Comparative Literature, eds. With Ali Behdad. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2011.
Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution, eds. With Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, and Nicolas Bancel. Indiana University Press, 2013.
Francophone Afropean Literatures, eds. With Nicki Hitchcott. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014.
The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations, eds. With Nicolas Bancel and Thomas David. New York: Routledge, 2014.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Editor-in-Chief, “Global African Voices Series,” Indiana University Press
Associate Editor: French Cultural Studies, U.K.
Editorial Board: French Forum (USA), Francophone Postcolonial Studies U.K.), Croisements: Revue Annuelle Francophone des Sciences Humaines en Asie de l’Est (South Korea)
