Faculty Fellow
Project: The Liberation of Paris, in Black and White
Assistant Professor, Department of French, Faculty of Arts & Science
Cécile Bishop is Assistant Professor of French at New York University. She obtained her PhD from King’s College London in 2012. Before joining NYU, she was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work focuses on francophone postcolonial literatures and visual culture. She is the author of Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny (Oxford: Legenda 2014). Bishop’s current book project examines what role the aesthetic and the literary can play in current debates on race in France.