Faculty
Roberta Hatcher
Assistant Professor of French
Undergraduate Advisor in French (Students L-Z)
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA, University of Minnesota
Office
1328 F
Cathedral of Learning
412-624-6260
hatcher@pitt.edu
Curriculum vitae
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
Undergraduate
- Récits d'enfance
- Cinéma et postcolonialisme
- Afrique sur Seine
- Le Québec contemporain
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.
"New Locations for African Women's Writing," Rev. of Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa, ed. Stephanie Newell; and Coming on Strong: Writing by Namibian Women, eds. M. Orford and N. Nicanor. Feminist Collections, Madison: University of Wisconsin, 19.1 (Fall 1997): 9-11
"Literary History and Sociology," Translation of Gustave Lanson, "L'histoire littéraire et la sociologie (1904)," PMLA 110 (1995): 220-235
Professional Affiliations
African Literature Association
African Studies Association
American Association of Teachers of French
College Language Association
Modern Language Association