Michael Wiedorn
Associate Professor of French
Member Of:
- School of Modern Languages
Email Address:
michael.wiedorn@modlangs.gatech.eduFax Number:
404-894-0955Office Location:
Swann 222 Overview
Michael Wiedorn is Associate Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages. Previously he served as an Assistant Professor at St. Edward’s University and as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University, after receiving his Ph.D. from the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. His book, Think Like an Archipelago: Paradox in the Work of Edouard Glissant, was published by the State University of New York Press in 2018. Other publications have appeared in The International Journal of Francophone Studies, Callaloo, the annual publication of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, and The Encyclopedia of the Novel, as well as in edited volumes in English and French. In 2014 he led a group of Atlanta-area public school educators to Dakar, Senegal under the aegis of a Fulbright-Hays/ US Department of Education Group Projects Abroad grant. Among others, Michael has offered courses on historical narratives by women writers in the Caribbean and the Maghreb, on African Cinema, and on French business culture and French civilization.
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2008
- M.A. University of Pennsylvania 2003
- B.A. Southwestern University 1999
Awards and
Distinctions:
Distinctions:
- Fulbright-Hays / Dept. of Education Group Projects Abroad grant, Principal Investigator, 2014.
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, 2009-2010
Interests
Research Fields:
- Digital Humanities
- Digital Media
- French
- Global Cities and Urban Society
- Instructional Technologies for Foreign Language Acquisition
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
- Pedagogy and Curriculum Development
- Studies Abroad
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Africa (North)
- Africa (Sub-Saharan)
- Europe
- Latin America and Caribbean
- Middle East
- North America
- United States
- United States - Southeast
Issues:
- Gender
- Inequality and Social Justice
- Race/Ethnicity
- African Studies
- Caribbean Studies
- Community engagement
- Cross-Cultural Understanding
- Diaspora Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Film History and Theory
- Francophone Studies
- Globalization and Localization
- Language Acquisition
- Languages in Contact
- Literary Theory
- Media
- Philosophy
- Post-Colonialism
- Translation
- World Literature
Courses
- FREN-1002: Elementary French II
- FREN-2001: French Culture I
- FREN-2002: French Culture II
- FREN-2005: LBAT Culture & Language
- FREN-3002: French Lit 1900-Present
- FREN-3040: Reading and Translation
- FREN-3062: Adv Business French II
- FREN-3121: Advanced Composition
- FREN-3500: Field Work Abroad
- FREN-3692: French LBAT II
- FREN-3693: French LBAT III
- FREN-3833: Special Topics
- FREN-4101: Francophone Lit I
- FREN-4102: Francophone Lit II
- FREN-4105: Francophone Cinema
- FREN-4200: Intro French Philosophy
- FREN-4241: French Cinema I
- ML-2813: Special Topics
All Publications
Books
Journal Articles
- “On Rereading Mayotte Capécia Today.” (2017): 29-40 .
In: Women in French Studies. Special Dossier: Women in Martinican Literature. [Peer Reviewed]2017
- “Glissant’s Philosophie de la Relation: ‘I have spoken the chaos of writing in the ardor of the poem.’”
In: Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters [Peer Reviewed]2013
- “Go slow now: Saying the unsayable in Glissant’s reading of Faulkner.” American Creoles:
In: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South. [Peer Reviewed]2012
- “Death and the Creole Maiden: Do Lafcadio Hearn's Chita and Youma haunt today's creolization?”
In: The International Journal of Francophone Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Chapters
- “La Littérature au service de la Vie chez Deleuze & Guattari et Glissant: Vers un vitalisme esthétique.”
In: La Littérature et la vie / Literature and Life. [Peer Reviewed]2018
- “Lieu et/de révolte : ambivalence et enracinement chez Camus et Césaire”
In: Editions Garnier2018
- “The Twentieth-Century French Novel.”
In: The Encyclopedia of the Novel2011
- “Here, There and Elsewhere at once: Maryse Condé’s Hérémakhonon.”
In: Exils et migrations postcoloniales: De l'urgence du départ à la nécessité du retour: Mélanges offerts à Abroise Kom.2010
- “Glissant’s Le Quatrième siècle.”
In: Littératures et déchirures.2008
Translations
- Buch, Esteban. “Gotan Project’s Tango Project.”
In: Tango Lessons: Interdisciplinary Essays on Tango in the Global 21st Century. Ed. Marilyn Grace Miller2014
- Bidima, Jean-Godefroy. “Intensity, Music, and Heterogeneses in Deleuze.”
In: Sounding the virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music2010
- Attridge, Derek and Jean-Michel Rabaté: “Le lieu de la déconstruction : Derek Attridge et Jean-Michel Rabaté.”
In: Derrida d'ici, Derrida de là. Littérature, Université, Déconstruction. Eds. Thomas Dutoit and Philippe Romanski2009