Corinne Duboin

**Title:** Professor of English **Affiliation :** Université de La Réunion, France **Department:** Dept. of English Studies **Research center**: DIRE, Déplacements, Identités, Regards*,* Ecritures (Displacement, Identity, Revision, Expression), [http://dire.univ-reunion.fr](http://dire.univ-reunion.fr/) **E-mail:** corinne.duboin@univ-reunion.fr **Fields:** 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures in English, African American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Caribbean and African Diasporas, Women’s and Gender Studies. **Research interest**: My current research examines the transnational diaspora literature produced by twenty-first century African novelists such as Chris Abani, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, Dinaw Mengestu, or Tayie Selasi. I am currently involved in 2 international research programs: - Ecotones: Encounters, Crossings, and Communities (2015-2021) - <https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/valorisation-partenariats/programmes-europ%C3%A9ens-et-internationaux/ecotones> - Thanatic Ethics: the Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces (2020-2021) - <http://www.cpch.hk/thanatic-ethics-the-circulation-of-bodies-in-migratory-spaces/> **Education:** - Habilitation in English Studies, University of Tours, 2009 - Doctorate in English, University of Strasbourg, 1996 - MA in French, Pennsylvania State University, 1989 - CAPES in English, 1997 (national competitive exam for secondary-school teaching) **Related professional experience and appointments, Université de La Réunion:** - Director, DIRE research center, since 2017 - Assistant Director, DIRE research center, 2015-2017 - Vice President for Research, 2012-2016 - Project Officer, Int’l Affairs Office (creation and supervision of a project management unit, EU research), 2009-2012 - Chair, Dept of English, 2004-2006 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Dept. of English, Fall 2000. - Associate Editor, *Alizés* (on-line journal in English Studies, U. de La Réunion) **Peer reviewer for academic journals**: *Ariel, Research in African Literature, College Literature, Neohelicon, Limina, Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, Clio, TrOPICS*. Member of the international scientific committee for *Crossways* (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy) since 2015. **Current courses:** Undergraduate level - American Literature - African American Literature - Postcolonial Literature - Introduction to Research Methodology Graduate level - Postcolonial Studies - Black Diaspora Literature - Multi-Ethnic American Literature