Isaac Joslin
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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Isaac Joslin grew up speaking French, first in Besançon, France, and later in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. With a background in French and Continental philosophy he earned his PhD in 2010 from the university of Minnesota, focusing on colonial and postcolonial francophone African literatures, cinemas, and cultures. He has travelled for research to Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Rwanda, and Burundi, and has taught a variety of courses on Francophone literatures and cultures. Currently Assistant Professor of French at Arizona State University, his research interests include Francophone African literatures and cinemas, aesthetics and theories of representation, theories of cultural hybridity, gender studies, youth and childhood studies, diaspora studies, Afrofuturism, and pedagogical approaches for teaching African literatures and cultures. He has published scholarly articles in The International Journal of Francophone Studies, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, African Literature Today, The French Review,Oeuvres et Critiques, Nouvelles Études Francophones, The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, and Critical African Studies. His forthcoming monograph, published by Ohio University Press (spring 2023) is entitled Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions.
Aside from his professional pursuits, teaching and researching in the areas of Francophone and African Studies, he enjoys travelling to different parts of the world, speaking French with his family, dabbling in creative writing and piano playing, as well as enjoying the outdoors.
- PhD in French from the University of Minnesota 2010
- MA in French from Mississippi State University 2003
- BA in Philosophy from Mississippi State University 2001
- Francophone African literatures and cinemas, aesthetics and theories of representation, theories of cultural hybridity, gender studies, youth and childhood studies, diaspora studies, and pedagogical approaches for teaching African literatures and cultures.
“Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence in the Context of End-less Post-colonialism.” Critical African Studies. 14:2 (August 2020) pp. 171-180.
“Society and Spectacle: The Sublimation of Reality in Baroque Aesthetics.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. 43:2 (Autumn 2020) pp. 272-281.
“Crises algériennes et baroquisme dans Le serment des barbares de Boualem Sansal.” French Studies in Southern Africa. No. 50 (Autumn 2020), pp. 60-82.
“Futurité en francosphère: enjeux du fantastique et de la science-fiction.” Oeuvres & Critiques. XLIV : 2 (winter 2019), pp. 101-118.
“Aesthetics and Intertexts of Resistance and Liberation in the African Diaspora: Hip-hop and Créolité.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. 42:1 (spring 2019), 72-84.
“La poétique de Sony Labou Tansi: pour une écocritique équatoriale égalitaire.” Nouvelles Études Francophones33:1 (May 2018), 210-225.
“The New Francophonie: Teaching French from an African-Centered Perspective,” The French Review 88:4 (May 2015), 127-139.
“L’écriture de Ken Bugul : pour un ‘genre’ de roman cinématographique africain,” Nouvelles Études Francophones28:1 (printemps 2014), 162-175.
“Teaching about Africa through literature, film, and music,” African Literature Today Vol. 29 (November 2011), 101-110.
“Postcolonial Disruptions: Reading the Baroque in Calixthe Beyala’s Tu t’appelleras Tanga,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites 14:5 (December 2010), 485-93.
“Baroque practices in postcolonial African literature and theory: from Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony,” International Journal of Francophone Studies 12:4 (December 2009), 639-54.
“The Modern City as Institution against Nature.” The Image of the City Conference Proceedings. Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 2003. (268-273).
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SLC 593 | Applied Project |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FRE 493 | Honors Thesis |
FRE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
FRE 305 | Readings in French Literature |
SLC 792 | Research |
FRE 194 | Special Topics |
HON 194 | Special Topics |
SLC 194 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FRE 493 | Honors Thesis |
SLC 593 | Applied Project |
SLC 202 | Expl Culture: Words/Image/Stor |
FRE 394 | Special Topics |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FRE 493 | Honors Thesis |
FRE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SLC 792 | Research |
FRE 194 | Special Topics |
SLC 194 | Special Topics |
HON 194 | Special Topics |
FRE 416 | French Civilization II |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FRE 493 | Honors Thesis |
FRE 322 | Fre Cultural Masterpieces II |
FRE 494 | Special Topics |
FRE 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FRE 493 | Honors Thesis |
FRE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SLC 792 | Research |
FRE 194 | Special Topics |
SLC 194 | Special Topics |
HON 194 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FRE 493 | Honors Thesis |
SLC 202 | Expl Culture: Words/Image/Stor |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
FRE 494 | Special Topics |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
FRE 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 202 | Expl Culture: Words/Image/Stor |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FRE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SLC 792 | Research |
HUL 494 | Special Topics |
HUL 494 | Special Topics |
HUL 598 | Special Topics |
HUL 598 | Special Topics |
FRE 598 | Special Topics |
FRE 598 | Special Topics |
AFR 494 | Special Topics |
AFR 494 | Special Topics |
AFR 598 | Special Topics |
AFR 598 | Special Topics |
FRE 312 | Oral and Written Expression II |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SLC 425 | Colonialism to Climate Change |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
FRE 322 | Fre Cultural Masterpieces II |
SLC 792 | Research |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FRE 494 | Special Topics |
FRE 598 | Special Topics |
FRE 322 | Fre Cultural Masterpieces II |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FRE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FRE 494 | Special Topics |
FRE 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |