Fidele Ghislain Tchoffo (he/him), PhD Candidate
Joined the program in Fall 2019.
My dissertation explores the plight of nationals of former French colonies in sub-Saharan Africa and their "Afropean" descendants, against a backdrop of reflection on the place of humanism in the fate reserved for them in a France that is increasingly tilting towards identitarian withdrawal. Drawing mainly on the postcolonial theory of philosopher and historian Achille Mbembe, he examines the diagnosis of French-speaking bi-national writers and filmmakers (Leonora Miano, Fatou Diome, Isabelle Boni Claverie, Julien Rambaldi) on the humanism and fraternalism that France has historically claimed to embody.
Upcoming: Hospitalité/inhospitalité et question d'émergence : L’exemple de Marianne Face aux Faussaires (2022) de Fatou Diome.
Upcoming: Masculinity in the Context of Immigration: A Gendered Reading of Jende’s Identity Mutation in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers (2016)
Hospitalité/inhospitalité et question d'émergence : L’exemple de Marianne face aux faussaires (2022) de Fatou Diome. I have presented this work this year at the MLA convention in Buffalo in March 2023 and at the international conference of the CIEF in Tunisia in June 2023
Graduate instructor in the French and Italian Department at the University of Minnesota
Vice-President, Graduate representative
DEI member, FRIT Department
