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Nicki Hitchcott

Associate Professor and Reader in African Francophone Studies, Faculty of Arts

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Teaching Summary

I currently teach the following two specialist undergraduate modules:

African Francophone Fiction

I am solely responsible for this year-long Level 3 module that introduces students to key novels by African writers from Ferdinand Oyono's anti-colonial novel, Une Vie de boy (1953) to Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, a fictional reflection on the Rwanda genocide. The assessment for this module includes student-led seminars in which students are responsible for organising and facilitating the discussion.

Caribbean Francophone Writing

This is a semester-long Level 2 module that considers the question of what it means to be French Caribbean. Covering francophone writing from the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, the module focuses in particular on Frantz Fanon's seminal essay, Peau noire, masques blancs and two novels by authors from the Antilles.

Research Summary

I work on postcolonial literatures in French, particularly writing by women from sub-Saharan Africa. I am currently working on two projects. The first analyses fictional responses to the 1994 Rwanda… read more

Recent Publications

Current Research

I work on postcolonial literatures in French, particularly writing by women from sub-Saharan Africa. I am currently working on two projects. The first analyses fictional responses to the 1994 Rwanda genocide and has generated articles on texts by Boubacar Boris Diop, Véronique Tadjo, Monique Ilboudo, Benjamin Sehene and Gilbert Gatore. The second project focuses on contemporary fiction by 'Afropean' writers such as Léonora Miano, Alain Mabanckou and Samy Tchak. Dominic Thomas (UCLA) and I are collaborating on an edited volume, Francophone Afropean Literature, which will combine scholarly articles with original short pieces by a number of Afropean authors.

I am President of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies http://www.sfps.ac.uk and General Editor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies (published by Liverpool University Press).

Past Research

Calixthe Beyala: Performances of Migration

I have published on African women's writing in French; migrant writers in Paris; Calixthe Beyala; textual ownership in francophone Africa and fictional responses to the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

Future Research

I am developing my research on the 1994 Rwanda genocide into a book-length project provisionally entitled Rwanda Genocide Stories.

  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2012. Benjamin Sehene vs. Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka: The Fictional Trial of a Genocide Priest Journal of African Cultural Studies. 24(1), 21-34
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2011. Calixthe Beyala. In: HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR AND EMMANUEL K. AKYEAMPONG, ed., Dictionary of African Biography Oxford University Press.
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2009. Writing on Bones: Commemorating Genocide in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi Research in African Literatures. VOL 40(NUMB 3), 48-61
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2009. Travels in Inhumanity: Veronique Tadjo's Tourism in Rwanda VOL 20(NUMB 2), 149-164
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2009. A Global African Commemoration - Rwanda: ecrire par devoir de memoire Forum for Modern Language Studies. VOL 45(NUMBER 2), 151-161
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2006. Calixthe Beyala: Prizes, Plagiarism, and "Authenticity" Research in African Literatures. VOL 37(NUMB 1), 100-109
  • HARGREAVES, A.G., HITCHCOTT, N. and THOMAS, D., eds., 2006. Textual Ownership in Francophone African Writing [Special issue of Research in African Literatures, 37(1)] Bloomington, IN.: University of Indiana Press.
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2006. Calixthe Beyala: performances of migration Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  • HITCHCOTT, N and HAIGH, S., eds., 2005. Black Paris (special issue of Journal of Romance Studies) Oxford : Berghahn Books.
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2004. Telling Tales: Calixthe Beyala's Les arbres en parlent encore Dalhousie French Studies. VOL 68, 17-26
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2004. Calixthe Beyala: black face(s) on French TV Modern and Contemporary France. 12(4), 473-482
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2003. 'The Death of the Native' Francophone Postcolonial Studies. 1.2, 70-71
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2003. Review of Donadey, A, Recasting Postcolonialism: Women Writing Between Worlds Modern and Contemporary France. 11(1), 88-9
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2003. Comment cuisiner son mari à l'africaine: Calixthe Beyala's Recipes for Migrant Identity French Cultural Studies. 14(2), 211-220
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2002. Looking for Elsewhere: "Imagined Communities" in Calixthe Beyala's Fiction. In: MURPHY, D. and NI LOINGSIGH, A., eds., Thresholds of Otherness/Autrement Memes London: Grant and Cutler. 27-285
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2002. Entries on African woman writers. In: MAJUMDAR, M.A., ed., Francophone Studies: the Essential Glossary London : Arnold.
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2001. Migrating Genders in Calixthe Beyala's Fiction. In: IRELAND, S. and PROULX, P. J., eds., Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France Westport, CT. : Greenwood Press. 177-185
  • HITCHCOTT, N. (ED.), 2001. Gender and Francophone Writing, (special issue of Nottingham French Studies) Nottingham : University of Nottingham.
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2001. Emily Apter, Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects Modern Language Review. VOL 96(PART 1), 214
  • OFFORD, M., IBNLFASSI, L., HITCHCOTT, N., HAIGH, S. and CHAPMAN, R.A. (EDS), 2001. Francophone literatures : a literary and linguistic companion London : Routledge.
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2000. A Daughter of Isis: The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi translated by SHERIF HETATA Journal of Modern African Studies. VOL 38(PART 4), 722
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 2000. Women writers in Francophone Africa Oxford : Berg.
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 1999. Review of Waelti-Walters, J., Jeanne Hyvrard: Theorist of the Modern World Women's Philosophy Review. 19, 75-77
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 1999. Review of Oyewumi,O, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourse Women's Philosophy Review. 21(1999), 72-73
  • HITCHCOTT,N.M., 1998. Cautionary Affairs: Women in Francophone Africa (re)write the Popular Romance Institute of Romance Studies. Journal. 5, 241-250
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 1998. J. Scherer, Le Theatre en Afrique noire francophone French Studies. VOL 52(NUMBER 4), 489
  • HITCHCOTT,N.M., 1997. "She's not a feminist, but ...": Francophone African Women's Writing and Feminist Ideology ASCALF Yearbook. 2, 18-27
  • HITCHCOTT,N.M., 1997. Review of Eldred Durosimi Jones and Marjorie Jones (eds), New Trends and Generations in African Literature Bulletin of Francophone Africa. 11, 118-119
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 1997. Calixthe Beyala and the Post-Colonial Woman. In: Post-Colonial Cultures in France Routledge, London and New York. 211-225
  • HITCHCOTT, N. M., 1997. C. Bonn and A. Rothe, eds, Litterature maghrebine et litterature mondiale French Studies. VOL 51(NUMBER 4), 525
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 1997. Female Sexuality and Family Romance: Tanella Boni's Une Vie de crabe. In: Black Accents: Writing in French from Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. 97-107
  • HITCHCOTT,N.M., 1997. La problematique du feminisme dans la litterature francophone des femmes africaines Litterealite. 9(I), 33-42
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 1997. African "Herstory: The Feminist Reader and the African Autobiographical Voice Research in African Literatures. VOL 28(NUMBER 2), 16-33
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 1996. "Confidently Feminine?" Sexual Role-Play in the Novels of Mariama Ba;. In: African Francophone Writing: a Critical Introduction 139-152
  • HITCHCOTT, N. and IBNLFASSI, L. (EDS), 1996. African francophone writing : a critical introduction Oxford : Berg, 1996.
  • HITCHCOTT, N., 1996. John Conteh-Morgan, Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa Modern Language Review. VOL 91(NUMBER 1), 236

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