Marion Tricoire
Marion Tricoire (Ph.D., Emory University) is a teacher and scholar of African Literature and of the Francophone world. Her research interests include Sub-Saharan African literature, Francophone Studies, Urban Humanities, Queer African Studies, Postcolonial Literatures, Migration and Diaspora studies, and literary translation. Her first book-length research project explores how contemporary urban literary fiction from Africa reimagines the city for its many hidden possibilities. In particular, her scholarly work discusses novels set in Dakar, Kinshasa, Douala, Lagos, and Luanda.
Professor Tricoire has published articles in academic journals and edited volumes, including in French Review, Research in African Literatures, and the Journal of the African Literature Association.
Education and Degrees
Ph.D., Emory University, French. Dissertation: Fictions of the Untold City in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa.
M.A., The American University of Paris, Cultural Translation.
B.A., The American University of Paris, Comparative Literature.
Selected Publications
- 鈥淭ransmissions: le VIH/sida dans la litt茅rature africaine en fran莽ais et dans Si d鈥檃imer鈥 d'Hemley Boum,鈥&苍产蝉辫;The French Review, 99.1, October 2025, 113-131.
- 鈥溾楲a ville modifiait mon histoire鈥: Douala dans Si d鈥檃imer鈥 d鈥橦emley Boum,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Perceptions urbaines de l鈥櫭﹙茅nement postcolonial, eds. Lassi et al., Presses Universitaires de Saint-Boniface, May 2025, 125-140.
- 鈥淩eading Regional Mobilities, Boko Haram and African Urban Youth in Max Lobe's Loin de Douala and Hemley Boum's Les jours viennent et passent鈥,&苍产蝉辫;Journal of the African Literature Association, 17.3, 2023, 389-405.
- 鈥淎rticle 15 and the 蝉丑茅驳耻茅蝉 children in Marie-Louise Mumbu鈥檚 Samantha 脿 Kinshasa,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Research in African Literatures, 51.2, Summer 2020, 80-95.
- 鈥淭rajectoires Urbaines : Dakar au prisme d鈥Aller et Retour de Ken Bugul,鈥&苍产蝉辫;The French Review, 92.3, March 2019, 139-152.