Faculty
Roberta Hatcher
Assistant Professor of French
Undergraduate Advisor in French (Students with last names beginning with L-Z)
Office: 1328 F Cathedral of Learning
Tel: 412-624-6260
E-mail: hatcher@pitt.edu
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA, University of Minnesota
Selected Publications
"La littérature francophone en question," Présence Francophone 60 (2003): 64-77
"Perpetual Movement and Plural Identities: The Creolized Imaginary of Henri Lopes's Le Chercheur d'Afriques," in Cultural Patrimony: Africa and New World Connections, Omoniyi Afolabi, ed. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003.
"L'espace colonial," in Gilles Bousquet and Andrew Irving, ed., Mosaïques: un cahier d'introduction à l'analyse culturelle. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt Publishers, 1999: 55-70.
Research Interests & Fields of study
Francophone literatures of sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, African cinema, twentieth-century French literature, literary theory, postcolonial studies
Teaching
Graduate
- Francophone African Fiction
- Geographies of Memory in African and Caribbean Literature
- Critical Fictions: Khatibi, Mudimbe, Glissant
- Francophone/Postcolonial Intersections
Undergraduate
- Récits d'enfance
- Cinéma et postcolonialisme
- Afrique sur Seine
- Littératures francophones des amériques
- Littérature antillaise
- The French Atlantic
Professional Affiliations
African Literature Association
African Studies Association
American Association of Teachers of French
College Language Association
Modern Language Association