Odile Ferly, Ph.D.

MA (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3), Ph.D (University of Bristol, UK). Affiliated with Women's Studies and Comparative Literatures.

Dr. Ferly received a B.A. from the University of Bristol, UK, an M.A. from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, and a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol. She has been at Clark since 2004 and is affiliated with the programs in Communication and Cultures, Race and Ethnic Relations, and Women's Studies.

Current Research and Teaching

Dr. Ferly's research interests are Caribbean literatures and cultures from a comparative perspective, including the Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanic regions. She studies especially contemporary women's writing from the Caribbean and its diaspora. Her work focuses on the issues of race and gender in connection with history, language, and the Caribbean literary tradition. She teaches interdisciplinary courses on literatures and cultures from Francophone countries, on French popular culture, immigration in France and on Caribbean writing from comparative perspective.

Selected Publications:

"The Mirror That We Don't Want: Literary Confrontations Between Haitians and Guadeloupeans", in So Similar and Yet So Foreign: Haitians in The Wider Caribbean, ed. Ph. Zacair, forthcoming Spring 2010 with University Press of Florida, 116-162.

"La pluralité comme gage de cohérence : métissage et antillanité dans L'autre qui danse", in Métissages et marronnages dans l'oeuvre de Suzanne Dracius, ed. Y. Helm, Paris: L'Harmattan, forthcoming 2009.

"A Limited Caribbeanness? The Continental Caribbean as Visions of Hell in Alejo Carpentier's El siglo de las luces and Maryse Condé's La vie scélérate", Caribbean Quaterly, vol. 55, No. 1, March 2009, 43-59.

"La historici(u)dad en 'Invi's Paradise', de Aurora Arias", MaComère (The Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars), No. 7 (2006), ed. H. Simpson, 66-76.

"Women and History-Making in Literature from the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean", in Swinging Her Breasts at History: Language, Body and the Caribbean Woman's Text, ed. M. Inghilleri, London: Mango Publishing, 2006, 30-46.

"Writing Cultural and Gender Difference: Sylviane Telchid's Throvia de la Dominique", in New Readings Vol. 7, electronic journal ed. by K. Jones and J. Sayner, University of Cardiff, UK, 2004, http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/euros/newreadings/volume7/index.html, ISSN No. 1359-7485.

"Neither Here Nor There: The Homeland in Diaspora Women Writers from the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean", in Caribbean Women Writers and Interculturality, ed. by Giovanna Covi, University of Trento, Italy, 2003, 31-54.

"The Fanonian Theory of Violence in Women's Fiction from the Caribbean", in Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices, ed. K. Gyssels and I. Hoving, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001, 107-119.