Dominic Thomas

Professor

dominict@humnet.ucla.edu

(310) 794-8923

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Teaching & Research Interests

• Francophone literatures and cultures
• francophone cinema
• postcolonial theory
• cultural nationalism
• anglophone African literature
• immigration and racism in contemporary France.
• Faculty Advisory Committee for the Inter-departmental programs in:

  Global Studies: http://international.ucla.edu/idps/globalstudies/

  European Studies: http://www.international.ucla.edu/idps/euro/

  African Studies: http://www.international.ucla.edu/idps/africanstudies/minor.asp

  M.A. Program in African Studies: http://www.international.ucla.edu/idps/africanstudies/masters.asp

Background

• Ph.D Yale University, 1996
• Dr. William M. Scholl Foundation Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, 1996-2000
• Visiting Scholar, Program in African Studies, Northwestern University, January 1999 -May 1999
• Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1999-2000
• Assistant Professor, Department of French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000-2002
  Associate Professor, 2003-
• Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, U.K., 2004

Selected Publications

• Nation-Building, Propaganda and Literature in Francophone Africa. Indiana University Press, 2002. Click here for further information.
• Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism. (Indiana University Press, African Expressive Cultures Series, forthcoming, 2006).
• Francophone Studies: New Landscapes. Co-edited by Françoise Lionnet and Dominic Thomas, eds. Modern Language Notes, Volume 118, Number 4 (September 2003).
• Textual Ownership in Francophone African Literature. Co-edited by Alec G. Hargreaves, Nicki Hitchcott, and Dominic Thomas. Research in African Literatures (forthcoming, 2006).