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Faculty The Department of French and Francophone Studies is very happy to welcome two new tenure-track faculty members who will begin teaching Fall 2009. Jean-Pierre Karegeye, Assistant Professor, is currently completing his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. His dissertation is on “Rwanda: Ecritures de témoignages et éclatement de l’instance narrative,” an analysis of both fictional and non-fictional narratives written in response to the Rwandan genocide. In addition, Jean-Pierre karegeye holds a Master’s degree in Social Ethics, also from the University of California at Berkeley, on “The Sacred and Political Violence in the Rwanda Genocide,” (2002) and three B.A.s, one in theology from Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya (1997), one in philosophy from the Institut de Philosophie Saint Pierre Canisius (with a specialization in Political Philosophy, Philosophy of language, Phenomenology,), and one in French and African Linguistics at the Université Nationale du Zaïre/Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Kukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jean-Pierre Karegeye has edited two books, Rwanda. Récits du génocide, traversée de la mémoire (Bruxelles: Université Libre de Bruxelles – La Pensée et les Hommes, 2008), and Génocide au Rwanda et Reconstruction des Champs du Savoir (Presse Universitaire de Laval, Québec), and has co-edited Rwanda. L’église catholique à l’épreuve du génocide. Montréal: Africana, 2000. He has published several chapters in books and several articles, both scholarly (Présence africaine) and journalistic. He has given many lectures, at conferences and as invited lecturer. He is the director and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center (IGSC) in Kigali and Berkeley since 2003 (www.igscrwanda.net) and has organized or co-organized about four major conferences about the Rwandan genocide and the arts, about genocide and art, including one with the School of Theater at the california Institute for the Arts and the International Writers’ Program at the University of Iowa and the University of Iowa Theater Department (2005). In 2010, Jean-Pierre karegeye will teach a course on the Representations of Africa in French and Francophone Literature and a course on Testimonial Literature. Andrew Billing, Assistant Professor,
completed his Ph.D. degree in French at the University of California
at Irvine in 2007. His dissertation is on “Political Fictions:
Art, Representation and Imagination in the Writings of Jean-Jacques
Rousseau.” Andrew Billing also holds a Masters Degree with
Distinction from the University of canterbury, New Zealand (1996)
and a B.A. in French from the University of Otago, in New Zealand
(1994). Andrew taught at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
in 2007-2008. He was a Mellon post-doctoral Fellow at Macalester
in 2008-09. His current research explores the animal/human relation
as well as intersections between literary fiction and moral and
political philosophy in the French Enlightenment. His teaching interests
include 18th century French literature, Enlightenment political
and moral philosophy, colonialism, and critical theory. He has recently
published in the Romanic Review and has several articles forthcoming
in peer-review journals. In 2008-09, Andrew taught a course on The
Animal and the Human and a course on the Antipodes: the Pacific
Islands and Vietnam in French Literature since the Enlightenment.
In 2009-2010, he will teach Introduction to Literary Analysis. |
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