Thomas C. Spear
Thomas C. Spear is Professor of French at Lehman
College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. Author of numerous articles on
French and Francophone novelists, he specializes particularly on forms
of autofiction. His publications as editor include two collective
volumes of short texts by Haitian authors – Une journée haïtienne (2007,
reprint 2020) and Une soirée haïtienne (2020) – and, with Colette
Boucher, Paroles et silences chez Marie-Célie Agnant (2013). He is
editor, since 1998, of Île en île, an archive featuring authors from
French-speaking islands and their diasporas. He has two book-length
projects in the works: a “sidafiction” (an AIDS memoir of the 1980s) and
an autofiction set in the Midwest of the baby boom years. http://thomasspear.com
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Events
Event
Of Islands and Archives: Celebrating Île en île and World Literature in French
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Conversation & Reading
Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics: An Introduction and Reading
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