Chair of Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Bénédicte Boisseron is Professor and Chair of the department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Her interdisciplinary scholarship bridges Global Black Studies and the Environmental Humanities through literary, historical, and artistic perspectives. She is the author of Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Cartibbean Diaspora (2014) and Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (2018). Her current book project (on freeganism) focuses on food repurposing and was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, alongside additional funding for her broader work on repurposing practices. Her recent publications examine pesticide contamination on banana plantations in the French Antilles. She is also currently working on two new projects: Heirloom, a photographic essay exploring the poetics of reclaiming and repurposing, and a forthcoming short book on living with dogs, under contract with Duke University Press. In Winter 2024, she taught Food Literacy for All as a faculty instructor.
