Écologie décoloniale dans les marges du monde / Decolonial Ecology In The Margins Of The World

• Siobhan Brownlie

Siobhan Brownlie is a specialist in the field of Intercultural Communication. Having grown up in Aotearoa New Zealand, she has also lived in New Caledonia, Australia, England and France. She is an honorary research fellow in the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and she teaches at Le Mans Université, France. She has published three monographs in the areas of translation, intercultural studies and memory. Her current research focuses on investigating concepts of decolonial ecology in relation to Aotearoa New Zealand.

• Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette

Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette holds a PhD in American Sociology (Université Antilles Guyane, 2008). She works on the Haitian diaspora in the USA and France, and has published Haïtiens à New York City – Entre Amérique Noire et Amérique Multiculturelle (2009) and Mémoires de Jaspora – Voix intimes d’Haïtiens enracinés en Amérique du Nord (2011). She also works on the French Caribbean and African diaspora.

• Elisabeth Amisu

Elizabeth Amisu is author of the landmark academic book, The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife, published by Praeger in 2016. She holds an MA in Early Modern English Literature from King’s College London, in conjunction with the British Library. She completed her teacher training at the University College London Institute of Education and has eleven years’ experience teaching Creative Writing, English Literature, English Language and Film Studies. She received a First-Class BA (Drama, Film and Creative Writing) from Bucks New University and was the recipient of the award for Highest Overall Mark in the Faculty of Creativity and Culture (2008). She is cofounder and editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies (http://michaeljacksonstudies.org/).

•  Cynthia V. Parfait

Cynthia V. Parfait is Professor at the Université d’Antsiranana (Madagascar), where she teaches Francophone literature. Her research focuses on francophone literature in the Indian Ocean and literary and literary publishing in Madagascar.

• Guillaume Deveney

Guillaume Deveney is a doctor in musicology. In his thesis, he works on a redefinition of the concept of musical creation, both in terms of the actors involved and the means used.
In 2011 he joined the CLEMM research group, with which he published several articles in Ontologies of creation in music  and participated in various national and international conferences. His research focuses on the practice and teaching of contemporary amplified music. He teaches as a lecturer since 2011 for the Music Sector of the University of Aix-Marseille.
He holds a DE of teacher of current amplified music, obtained in Aix-en-Provence.
He is currently in charge of the music mission for the departmental association Arts Vivants 52. He took part in the creation of the Grand Est GRABUGE contemporary music network, in which he is one of the referents of the Training and Amateur Practices Commission.

• Victoria Klein

A doctoral student in the Department of French Literature at the Université de Montréal, Victoria Klein is preparing a monographic thesis on the work of Patrick Chamoiseau, focusing on the author’s strategy for legitimizing his speech and the ecocritical scope of his texts, beginning in 2007. She presented a paper entitled “Repenser le Vivant : poétique du ‘vivre-en-Relation’ dans Les neuf consciences du Malfini de Patrick Chamoiseau” at the Sixth Princeton University Doctoral Colloquium, April 29, 2022. A graduate of HEC-Paris and agrégée de Lettres Modernes, she taught high school French in France for three years while studying Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne (Paris IV). Victoria Klein is also active in community and feminist circles. She is the founder of the ENTRE collective and the curator of an exhibition presenting the issues of intersectionality in feminist struggles.

• Marine Brun-Franzetti
  

PHD student at the University of Aix-Marseille, attached to the PRISM laboratory and the CNRS.

• Lucile Combreau

Lucile Combreau is a graduate of the École normale supérieure in Paris, and is preparing a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Xavier Garnier and Corinne Maury at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and Toulouse Jean-Jaurès Universities. Her research focuses on how contemporary literary and cinematographic writings linked to the sites of transatlantic slavery help to question the issues, difficulties and possibilities of a present, shared memory of this past. She has published several articles (notably “D’une île-mémoire à une multiplicité de lieux : Gorée et la mer dans la poésie de Tanella Boni” and “Faire affleurer une mémoire vivante, une éc(h)opoétique du montage dans The Sea is History de Louis Henderson”) and, with Lucie Leszez and Mariya Nikiforova, coordinated the Films, textes et textures issue of La Revue documentaires.

• Zada Johnson

Zada Johnson has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and is presently associate professor and academic program coordinator of the Urban Community Studies Program at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Johnson’s research includes African Diaspora cultures, African-American performance traditions, New Orleans parading traditions, urban culture and popular culture. Her publications include essays in the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Journal of African-American Studies, Journal of Anthropology and Humanism, Journal of Theology and Culture as well as a chapter about Prince and Black Liberation Theology in Theology and Prince and a forthcoming chapter on Purple Rain and the Southern blues aesthetic in Prince and the Minneapolis Sound.

• Marie Juillet

An undisciplined artist, my praxis and poíēsis are nourished by travel, encounters, contemplative space-time, ecopoetic otherness and the singular landscapes of La Planète. My artistic proposals are crossbred. I privilege the experience of artistic production over its efficient outcome. I question the hidden dimensions and poetic forces of discreet, furtive artistic acts.

• Marie Coquille-Chambel

Marie Coquille-Chambel is a doctoral student at Paris 8 and a member of the Ecole Doctorale Esthétique, sciences et technologies des arts. Her research focuses on decolonial theater from a political, media, sociological and historical perspective. She is supervised by Nathalie Coutelet for her thesis entitled “Histoire politique et sociale du théâtre décolonial en France: Aesthetic, cultural and memorial issues from 1931 to the present day”.

• Christophe Premat

Christophe Premat is an Associate Professor in cultural studies in the Department of Romance Languages at Stockholm University. In 2020, he published “Entre aliénation et déception identitaire: étude de la Traversée de la Mangrove de Maryse Condé” (Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies, vol. 5, n. 1), “Détour nordique vers l’Orient, Les anges de Millesgården d’Alexandre Najjar” (vol.3, nr. 1: 95-111) and in 2019 “Les vibrations de la conscience minéralisée dans L’Inconnu sur la terre de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio” (Les Cahiers J.-M.G. Le Clézio, vol. 12: 45-56). He has been co-editor-in-chief of the Revue nordique des études francophones since 2017, and is director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Stockholm University. Since 2020, he has created a course in collaboration with the Institut Nordique d’Amérique Latine on Power relations and postcolonialism in the Caribbean.

• Jovanie Stéphane Soh Sokoudjou

Jovanie Stéphane Soh Sokoudjou holds a Master’s degree in Science du Langage, Littératures et Cultures francophones. Her PhD thesis in comparative literature, more specifically in the field of natur writing, is currently being defended at the Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, University of Dschang/Cameroon. His areas of research include literary studies on spatial turn, natur turn and animal turn. He is also a member of several learned societies.

• Méline Josette Kenne Meli

Méline Josette Kenne Meli holds a Master’s degree in Science du Langage, Littératures et Cultures francophones. She is currently preparing her PhD thesis in comparative literature, more specifically in the field of environmental literatures, at the Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, University of Dschang/Cameroon.

• Christina Oikonomopoulou

Christina Oikonomopoulou was born in Athens in 1971. MA in French Language and Literature, Department of French Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. D.E.A. and Doctorate in General and Comparative Literature, Université de Paris, Sorbonne-Paris IV (dir. de rech. P. Brunel). Diplôme Supérieur in business French and financial terminology, Chambre d’Industrie et de Commerce de Paris. Since 2003, she has taught in the Department of Theatrical Studies of the University of the Peloponnese on French-speaking world theater and French French theatrical terminology. She has taken part in several conferences and published over fifty articles and studies on French-speaking theaters and current trends. Main publications: Théâtre francophone: Écritures théâtrales-monde Tome I: “Europe”, Athens: ed. Papazissis, 2022 ; Cours de Culture et de Terminologie théâtrale française, Athens: ed. Hérodotos, 2022 ; Ismaël Saidi, Djihad, translation, edition and afterword by Christina A. Oikonomopoulou, Thessaloniki: éd. Épikentro, 2021, Francophonie et Multiculturalism, co-director, Athens: ed. Grigoris, 2021 ; Dictionaries French-Greek, Greek-French, Athens: ed. Patakis, 2008.