Head of French Section, Professor of French
Research and Teaching
Odile Cazenave is Professor of French Studies in Romance Studies, African Studies, and the Center for the Study of Europe, and is an Associate Faculty of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
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She directed the Section African Literature for the Dictionnaire universel des créatrices (Editions des Femmes, 2013) and has been contributing to the series LittérAfrique (at Hachette International) geared to junior high and high school students in Francophone African countries, especially with an Anthology of the short story in African literature. She is one of the Editors of JALA, the Journal of the African Literature Association.
Odile Cazenave has held visiting appointments at Brown University, Harvard University, M.I.T., Wellesley College, and has taught in the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies. She is a core faculty for the African Studies Center, the Center for the Study of Europe, and is part of World Languages and Literature, Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and Cinema and Media Studies.
In 2018, Odile Cazenave was named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
Selected Publications
Cazenave, O. (2011) Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment. University of Virginia Press.
Cazenave, O. (2007) Afrique Sur Seine. Lexington Books.
Cazenave, O. (1996) Femmes rebelles Naissance d’un nouveau roman africain au féminin. Editions L’Harmattan.