CONTRIBUTOR:

Françoise Král

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

English and Postcolonia Studies

INSTITUTION:

Université Paris Nanterre

BIOGRAPHY:

Françoise Král is Professor of English and postcolonial studies at Université Paris Nanterre. Her research fields include postcolonial literatures and cultures, critical theory, contemporary 20th and 21st century Anglophone literature and diaspora studies. She is the author of several books, including her monographs Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature (Palgrave, 2009) Social Invisibility in Anglophone Diasporic Literature and Culture: The Fractal Gaze (Palgrave, 2014) and Sounding out History (2018). She is a founding member of the international interdisciplinary research network Diaspolinks and has edited several collected volumes (Re-presenting Otherness (Publidix, 2004), Architecture and Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Gins (co-edited with Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Rodopi, 2011) as well as journal issues including a special issue of Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Crossings (37.1 autumn 2014), Polygraphiques, ‘Inhabiting the Voids of History” (n°4. Spring 2018) and a special issue of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2019, vol.55 n°6 “Diasporic Trajectories: Charting New Critical Perspectives.”