Contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Jacques Derrida. Translation theory and translations of many works from French, by Derrida but also by Hélène Cixous
Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction
Intellectual history and comparative literature. Cosmopolitanism, world literature, exile, Russian and German literary and cultural history
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