Odile Ferly
Associate Professor of Francophone Studies, Language, Literature & Culture
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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 several programs in the
Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies (CGRAS), including Africana Studies, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies.Dr. Ferly's research interests are Caribbean literatures and cultures from a comparative perspective, including the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone regions. Her book A Poetics of Relation: Caribbean Women Writing at the Millennium (2012) examines contemporary women's writing from across the Caribbean and its diaspora, focusing on the issues of race and gender in connection with history, language, the Caribbean literary tradition and the diaspora. Her pan-Caribbean volume Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime (2023, edited with Tegan Zimmerman) uniquely examines Caribbean women writers as creative writers, theorists, and activits. Her current research focus is on cultural politics in the French Caribbean. She teaches interdisciplinary courses on Francophone literatures and cultures, including cinema, and on French popular culture, as well as comparative literature courses on Caribbean women writers and on Afrofuturism.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Spanish and French, University of Bristol, 2002
- M.A. in English, Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1996
- B.A. in Spanish and Russian, University of Bristol, 1995
Affiliated Department(s)
- Language, Literature & Culture
- Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies (CGRAS)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime.
Chapter: Chronotropic Visions: Conclusion.Published by Palgrave Macmillan
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2023
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Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime.
Chapter: Poetics and Politics of the Chronotropics: Introduction.Published by Palgrave Macmillan
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2023
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Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime.
Chapter: Chronotopal Slaveships, Corporeal Archives: Devoir de mémoire in Fabienne Kanor's Humus and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro's las Negras.Published by Palgrave Macmillan
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2023
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Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime.
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2023
Palgrave Macmillan
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“Contrapuntal Reflections: Dominicans in the Haitian Imaginary.”
Published in Women, Gender, and Families of Color
Spring
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2021
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Vol. 9
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Issue #1
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New Perspectives in French Caribbean Studies
Chapter: Fabienne's Phantom Foot: Movement, Memory and History in Kanor.●
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Awards & Grants
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Higgins School of Humanities Major grant
Higgins School of Humanities
Dec. 12, 2022 - Dec. 31, 2023
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Barbera Faculty Fellowship
Department of Language, Literature and Culture
Jun. 1, 2020 - Dec. 31, 2022
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Outstanding Teacher of the Year Nomination
Clark University undergraduate student body
2020
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Higgins/New Earth Conversation Faculty Fellow in Environmental Humanities
New Earth Conversation
2024
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