Gallouδt Presents on Black Revolts
25 March 2013 Gallout Presents on Black Revolts
Catherine Gallout, chair and professor of French and Francophone Studies at HWS, was invited to deliver a paper at the University of the French West Indies and Guiana under the auspices of Guadeloupes Conseil Regional. The conference theme, Black Representation in European and American Literature, History and Art in the 18th, 19th and 20th Century, has been the focus of Gallouts research for several years. The international conference was the first of its kind organized by a French university.
Gallouts research focuses on how resistance and revolt of Africans and slaves are represented during the French Enlightenment. Her paper, Le Noir contre le Blanc : rhetorique de la representation litteraire de resistance or Black Against White: Rhetoric of the Literary Representation of Resistance, traced the evolution of representation through several 18th century texts. Gallout was also interviewed on television and participated in a radio show with two French colleagues from the conference. The podcast can be heard at http://medias2.francetv.fr/videosread/rfo/mp3/guadeloupe/Hierailleurs/Hier_Ailleurs_200313.mp3
She recently published on Nzingha, queen of Angola in a special issue on Africa of the 18th century French journal, Dix-Huitime Sicle. The article reviewed in Angola and in Brazil where Nzingha is a historical heroine, is considered a breakthrough in European studies of the African queen. In addition, Gallout is also completing a volume of collected essays, which will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2014.
A member of the HWS staff since 1986, Gallout received her doctorate and masters from Rutgers University, her B.A. cum laude from Hope and her Bacalaureat, with honors, from Academie de Grenoble. She was the initiator of HWSs French study abroad programs.