Maïté Marciano
Ph.D. 2022
Maïté Marciano is Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Centre College. She earned her Ph.D. in comparative literary studies at Northwestern University. She holds a B.A. in art history from the Free University of Brussels and an M.A. from the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University in the United Kingdom. She specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and Francophone literature and thought. Her research and interests include but are not limited to critical theory, diasporic and migration studies, and Mediterranean studies. She is currently engaged in two research projects. Her first book project, The French Novel in the Time of Disaffection, traces a genealogy of disaffection from the Vichy Regime to the end of the twentieth century and investigates how writers employed anti-cathartic affects to address ethical and political forms of violence. Her second project, Affective Belonging in the Global South: Jewish and Black Émigrés Writers in Marseille, explores Marseille as a cosmopolitan center and as a liminal and translingual space, in between cultures.