Dr Dorothée Boulanger

Dorothée is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Modern Languages and a JRF at Jesus College, working on African literature across languages. Her research interests lie at the intersection of African literature, history, gender and epistemology, highlighting how Western methodologies and academic disciplines fail to encompass the complexity of African fiction as an intellectual and political intervention. More recently, pressed by the acceleration of global warming and multiple environmental crises, Dorothée has developed a sustained interest in ecocritical perspectives and non-human agency in African and Lusophone Literatures. More specifically, she investigates how fiction, through the centring of alternative cosmologies and epistemologies, can celebrate and inspire more sustainable and respectful relations to the Earth and the living. She is the author of  Fiction as History: Resistance and Complicities in Angolan Postcolonial Literature (Legenda 2022). 

African Languages, Literatures and Cultures Network

African Languages, Literatures and Cultures Network has been awarded for two years (2022 - 2024).