Madeline Bedecarré Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies

My teaching and research bring together my expertise and training in both literary criticism and the sociology of culture. 

In addition to traditional close readings, I use methods outside the scope of textual analysis in order to see phenomena not contained within the literary text itself, but within the institutions that shape it (prizes, publishing houses, libraries, best-seller lists, etc.) 

I have published in the Journal of World Literature (2020), Études Littéraires Africaines (2023), and CFC-intersections (2024) and have contributed chapters to the collective volumes Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies (Palgrave Macmillan 2022) and Profession Écrivain (CNRS éditions 2017). 

My translation of Gisèle Sapiro’s The Sociology of Literature came out with Stanford University Press in October 2023. 

My first book African Authors and The Politics of Literary Recognition is under contract with Edinburgh University Press.