Vinay Swamy
Title: Assistant Professor of French
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Office: Chicago Hall 101
Phone: 845.437.5718
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Biography
Vinay Swamy received his doctorate in French with a certificate in Gender Studies from Northwestern University. He also holds a Master's degree in French from Miami University, Ohio and completed his BA at Denison University. His teaching and research interests are located in French and Francophone literary traditions and their intersection with political and cultural histories, as well as the construction of social identities in contemporary France. Professor Swamy regularly presents papers at various national and international conferences and has published on postcolonial Francophone works including essays on novels by Azouz Begag and Maryse Condé. His articles on the PaCS debate and kinship structures in contemporary French films, on Hanif Kureishi's "My Beautiful Laundrette" and on the 2003 film "L'Esquive" by Abdellatif Kechiche have appeared in journals including Comparative Literature Studies and Studies in French Cinema. At present, he is working on a book length study tentatively entitled Interpreting the Republic: Marginalization and Resistance in Postcolonial Metropolitan French Novels and Films.