Emmanuelle Radar is Assistant Professor in contemporary French and Francophone literature(s) and culture(s) (20th-21st c.) at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

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Fields of interest

• Global French studies (‘Francophonies’)  
• Postcolonial theories, anticolonialism and decolonization
• French modernism  
• French colonialism  
• Network of feminism during the interwar period  
• Travel literature
• Migrant novels and films
• Intercultural communication and mediation

Research

My main research interests are in the domain of global French studies or ‘Francophonie’ – literature and culture from the French speaking world – from a postcolonial perspective, acknowledging the imbalance of power relationships undermining the transnational and transcultural exchanges within the French speaking world. I am interested in how the Francophonie is reshaped by the displacement of people, goods, technology, ideas, ideologies, cultural production etc.  
My research focuses on French modernism and (anti)colonialism, travel writing in the colonial setting (mainly French Indochina and sub-Saharan Africa), French and Francophone women travellers, writers and artists in the interwar period, francophone migrant literature and cinema, intercultural communication and cultural mediation.
I am currently working on ‘forgotten’ anticolonial French women travelers in the interwar period.

Grants and awards

2002-2007 PhD granted by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (UvA) for the individual doctoral research project «Putain de colonie!» Anticolonialisme et modernisme dans la littérature du voyage en Indochine (1919-1939).

Curriculum Vitae

Employment

2016- present
Lecturer Leiden University, Department of French Language and Culture

2015-2021
Lecturer Radboud Universiteit, Department of French Language and Culture

2008-2014
Lecturer Utrecht University, Department of French Language and Culture

2002-2009
Lecturer Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department of French Language and Culture

Education

2008
Ph.D. in the Humanities, discipline of Arts, University of Amsterdam (UvA), cum laude. Dissertation in French travel literature: «Putain de colonie!» Anticolonialisme et modernisme dans la littérature du voyage en Indochine (1919-1939).

2001
Master of Arts, French language and culture, UvA, cum laude

Selected publications

- Camille Drevet, Les Annamites chez eux [1928] et autres écrits sur le colonialisme, Paris: L’Harmattan, Autrement mêmes, 2023.
- In collaboration with Bénac-Giroux, Karine, « Les voix de Joséphine: méditation, polyphonie et agentivité dans Fleur de Barbarie de Gisèle Pineau », in: Carvigan-Cassin, Laura (ed.), Dossier Caraïbe, Nouvelles études Francophones, 35.2, 2021, p. 139-153.
- In collaboration with Annelies Schulte Nordholt (eds.), Écritures francophones du Maroc contemporain, Revue Relief, 14.2, 2020.
- In collaboration with E. Le Pichon-Vorstman, « Une langue ’tordue’? Réappropriations identitaires par les récits de vie: pratiques translangagières et agentivité en contexte migratoire », Langue et Société, 168.3, 2019, p. 119-137.
- In collaboration with Alicia C. Montoya (eds.), Modernités contestées, Revue Relief, 11.2, 2017.
- « Quand l’écriture des femmes fait entendre la voix des hommes… Réflexions sur la répétition dans trois romans d’écrivaines franco-vietnamiennes », in: Castaing, Anne & Gaden, Elodie (eds.), Ecrire et penser le genre en contextes postcoloniaux, Bruxelles, et al., Peter Lang, 2017, p. 113-138.
- « Angkor: lieu de mémoire interculturel? », in: Lüsenbrink, Hans-Jürgen & Mbondobari, Sylvère (eds.), Villes coloniales/Métropoles postcoloniales : Représentations littéraires, images médiatiques et regards croisés, Tübingen : Narr Francke Attempto, 2015, p. 57-75.

Activities