Myriam Mompoint
Myriam Mompoint is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature and French Program Coordinator. She received her Ph. D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Miami with a specialization in the literature and film of the Francophone Caribbean and of Brazil. Her research focuses on comparative literary and cultural studies with a particular emphasis on film and representation. She has a Master’s degree In Foreign Language Pedagogy from the University of Delaware and a Master’s degree from New York University in Humanities and Social Sciences with a concentration in Latin American studies, including gender and society, Latin American architecture, and French Caribbean history and literary theories. Her thesis was on Mayan women activists in Guatemala. Currently, Professor Mompoint is preparing a manuscript for publication, Symbolic Exchanges: Haiti, Brazil and the Ethnopoetics of Cultural Identity, and is doing research for a new project on representations of Haiti in world cinema. Her interests are in Francophone Literature and Ethnography, World Cinema, African Diaspora studies, particularly Francophone America, and Gender Studies.
Publications
“Jean Rouch: Expanding the Vernacular of Ethnographic Film” Transatlantique 8: Jean Rouch: A Celebration of Life and Film. Ed. William Rothman. Schena Editore 2007: 97-108
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Qui vit sans folie n’est pas si sage qu’il croit. Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes.