Marion Tricoire
Marion Tricoire (Ph.D., Emory University) is a teacher and scholar of African Literature and of the Francophone world. Her research interests include Sub-Saharan African literature, Francophone Studies, Urban Humanities, Queer African Studies, Postcolonial Literatures, Migration and Diaspora studies, and literary translation. Her first book-length research project explores how contemporary urban literary fiction from Africa reimagines the city for its many hidden possibilities. In particular, her scholarly work discusses novels set in Dakar, Kinshasa, Douala, Lagos, and Luanda.
Professor Tricoire has published articles in academic journals and edited volumes, including in French Review, Research in African Literatures, and the Journal of the African Literature Association.
Education and Degrees
Ph.D., Emory University, French. Dissertation: Fictions of the Untold City in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa.
M.A., The American University of Paris, Cultural Translation.
B.A., The American University of Paris, Comparative Literature.
Selected Publications
- “Transmissions: le VIH/sida dans la littérature africaine en français et dans Si d’aimer… d'Hemley Boum,” The French Review, 99.1, October 2025, 113-131.
- “‘La ville modifiait mon histoire’: Douala dans Si d’aimer… d’Hemley Boum,” Perceptions urbaines de l’événement postcolonial, eds. Lassi et al., Presses Universitaires de Saint-Boniface, May 2025, 125-140.
- “Reading Regional Mobilities, Boko Haram and African Urban Youth in Max Lobe's Loin de Douala and Hemley Boum's Les jours viennent et passent”, Journal of the African Literature Association, 17.3, 2023, 389-405.
- “Article 15 and the shégués children in Marie-Louise Mumbu’s Samantha à Kinshasa,” Research in African Literatures, 51.2, Summer 2020, 80-95.
- “Trajectoires Urbaines : Dakar au prisme d’Aller et Retour de Ken Bugul,” The French Review, 92.3, March 2019, 139-152.