Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies

Siham Bouamer is Assistant Professor of French at Sam Houston State University, USA. Her research focuses on transnational movements from and to the Maghreb in twentieth and twenty-first-century film and literature and pedagogy in textbooks. Loïc Bourdeau is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. His research lies in twentieth and twenty-first-century French and Quebec literature and cinema, with special theoretical interests in feminist and queer studies.

“Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies serves as a hands-on guide for educators, providing tools and strategies to transform pedagogies. ... it remains an indispensable compendium for those looking to transform their teaching approaches in line with diversity principles.” (Eric Essono Tsimi, Language Policy, November 9, 2023)

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Dismantling the ‘Francophonie’: Language, Race, and Empire.- Chapter 2: Multilingual Texts and Contexts: Inclusive Pedagogies in the French Foreign Language Classroom.- Chapter 3: Unlearning Francophonie: Legacies of Colonialism in French Language Textbooks.- 4: Making the Colonial Present Audible to our Students and Ourselves.- Chapter 5: Racism, Colonialism, and the Limits of Diversity: Analyzing the Francophone “Other” in French Foreign Language Textbooks.- Chapter 6: Blackness and Social Justice in the French Classroom.- Part II: Intersectional French Studies.- 7: Harmful Grammar: Fatphobia and Ableism in First-Year French.- Chapter 8: Language Policy & Change in the Classroom: Teaching the Feminization of Professional Titles.- Chapter 9: Teaching Trans: Examples from an Intermediate French Course.- Chapter 10: Teaching French Feminism from an Intersectional Perspective.- Part III: Beyond the Textbook: New Teaching Strategies.- Chapter 11: De-canonizing Contemporary Culture Courses: Teaching Culture on Twitter.- Chapter 12: Approaching Intersectionality and Renegotiating Power Dynamics Through Podcast Pedagogy.- Chapter 13: Beyond the Book: Multimodality as Anti-Racist Pedagogy.- Chapter 14: Decolonial and Feminist Course Design in the First-year French Curriculum.- Chapter 15: Developing Critical Literacy in the High School French Language Classroom Through the Webcomic ‘Assignée garçon.