Dominic Thomas#
| Membership Number: | 3957 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.french.ucla.edu/index.php/people2/faculty?id=2 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra
- 2013 to present Madeleine L. Lettessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- 2000 - 2013 Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- 2011 - 2012 Research Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
- 1999 - 2000 Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, USA
- 1996 - 2000 Dr. William M. Scholl Foundation Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, USA
- 1991-1996 Yale University, New Haven, USA, doctoral student and Teaching Assistant
Fields of Scholarship
- Francophone literatures
- Francophone Africa
- African literature
- African Theatre
- French Postcolonialism
- Translation
- European Union
- Migration
- Race and ethnicity
- Museum Studies
Honours and Awards
- 2014 President, Francophone Studies Division, Modern Language Association Executive Committee, USA
- 2013 Comité d’Honneur / Steering Committee, Festival Étonnants Voyageurs, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
- 2013 “Global France: Identity, Race, and Memory.” The Noble Lecture. University College London, U.K.
- 2011 German-American Fulbright Commission Award (Germany and Belgium), Summer
- 2011 Inaugural Magnet Scholar, Amherst Five-College Faculty Seminar, USA, April
- 2010 Invited Researcher, Musée Quai Branly, Paris, France, March
- 2009 “Global France: Migration, Ministries and Museums,” Charles Bonnier Lecture in French Studies, University of Liverpool, U.K.
- 2009 Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, March
- 2007 Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, French government
- 2007 “Globalization and National Identity in France,” Dorothy S. Blair Memorial Lecture, Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, London, U.K.
- 2004 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge University, U.K., June
- 1999 Visiting Scholar, Program in African Studies, Northwestern University, USA
- 1999 President, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association division of "Francophone African and Caribbean Literature", USA
