Madeleine Dobie

Department Chair; Director of Graduate Studies; Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Email: mld2027@columbia.edu

Francophone literature and cinema; North Africa; postcolonial literatures and cinemas; migration and diaspora; Orientalism, colonialism

Madeleine Dobie is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is also Chair and Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of French and a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Comparative Literature & Society and Co-director of Columbia’s Amman-Tunis Middle-East/North Africa summer program.

Dobie’s current book project, After Violence: Cultural Renewal in Contemporary is about literature, cinema and other forms of artistic expression in contemporary Algeria. She is also editingThe Comparative Literary History of Slavery, Vol. 1: Slavery, Literature & the Emotions. Her recent books include Relire Mayotte Capécia: une femme des Antilles dans l'espace colonial français, a critical re-edition of two mid twentieth-century novels by the Martinican writer, Mayotte Capécia and Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in 18th-Century French Culture, which examines the place of slavery in eighteenth-century French literature, philosophy and material culture, particularly textiles and furniture.