English:
Dr. Gladys M. Francis serves as Associate Dean for Academic Student Affairs (ASA) and The Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University (Washington, D.C.). In this role, she also establishes experiential learning infrastructures (ranging from internships, exchange, study abroad, and study away programs) to ensure that all the students in the College of Arts and Sciences benefit fully from Howard’s location in the nation’s capital and globally.
Associate Dean Francis is a native of Guadeloupe. As Professor of Africana, French, and Francophone Studies, Dr. Francis explores issues of identify formation, race, gender, trauma, and cohesive intercultural immersion through the arts. Her transdisciplinary research involves Theory and Cultural Studies; Africana Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Visual and Media Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Using the lens of social justice, her transdisciplinary research expertise focuses on the complex layers of identity formation and representations with respect to issues of consumerism, commodification, and ethics. It is situated at the nexus of Theory and cultural studies, (Urban) Conflict Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Africana Studies, Visual and Media Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. It offers a critical reflection on the body experiencing challenged relationships to migration, race, gender and violence, inside complex cultural and institutional environments.
Dr. Francis has given invited lectures, interviews, workshops, and consulting sessions across the globe, to present her scholarship and her efforts on issues of community activism, diversity, equity, social justice, and inclusion. She has recently fundraised approximately 5 million dollars to: create network technology and digital education initiatives; facilitate, promote, and disseminate innovative and collaborative research; develop consortia of cooperation with international stakeholders that offer career preparedness, internships, and global research opportunities to students, faculty, and staff.
She is the recipient of numerous research grants ($10.4M) and awards; several Outstanding Teaching Awards; two Endowed Chairs; the 2019 Outstanding Faculty Diversity Award at GSU; research fellowships in Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe; honorary visiting professorships in Europe and South America; and a Digital Champions Fellowship. She received the 2023 Distinguished Purdue Alumni Scholars Award from Purdue University. Dr. Francis was named Patron of the 2023 Guy Tirolien Prize for Literary Excellence, which awards the ten winners in the literary sector of the Academy of Guadeloupe, while promoting a legacy of renowned Caribbean writers. Previous patrons (parrains/marraines) included Patrick Chamoiseau, Dany Laferrière, Ernest Pépin, Gisèle Pineau, and Simone Schwarz-Bart.
Associate Dean Francis has published three books and over forty academic articles to date. Her books include Amour, sexe, genre et trauma dans la Caraïbe francophone (2016), Odious Caribbean Women: The Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression (2017), Epopée Créole: Histoires en transgression (2022). Her book Fabienne Kanor in Transgression is forthcoming in 2025 with Yale University Press.
Français:
Gladys M. Francis est doyenne et professeure des universités à la Howard University où elle dirige le Bureau des affaires académiques et administratives des étudiants ainsi que la division des sciences humaines de la Faculté des arts et des sciences (COAS). Elle est également responsable du développement de programmes d'études innovants et internationaux pour tous les départements académiques de la COAS.
Dr. Francis est originaire de la Guadeloupe. Elle se spécialise en études africaines, francophones, culturelles et théoriques. Ses récents travaux interdisciplinaires portent sur l’esthétique des représentations du corps souffrant dans la littérature et les arts visuels. Elle y explore les questions de justice sociale, de résistance, de trauma, de construction identitaire, de genre et de sexualité.
Dr. Francis est invitée à travers le monde en tant que consultante et chercheure sur les questions de formation identitaire et de justice sociale liées, entre autres, au genre, à l'ethnicité et à la classe. Elle compte plus de cinq millions de dollars récoltés pour des missions éducatives et culturelles, diverses bourses nationales et internationales (plus de dix millions de dollars), plusieurs Chaires de recherche (en Afrique, dans la Caraïbe et en Europe) et plus d'une dizaine de Chaires de Professeur Invité Honoraire (en Europe et en Amérique du Sud). Elle a reçu en 2019, le prix d’excellence pour la diversité, l’équité et l’inclusion de la faculté des Arts et des Sciences. Elle compte également trois prix d’excellence pour son enseignement. Elle a reçu le 2023 Distinguished Purdue Alumni Scholars Award (de l'Université de Purdue: Provost Office et le Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence). En 2023, elle est marraine de la 14ème édition du Prix de l'excellence littéraire Guy Tirolien qui récompense les dix meilleurs lauréats de la filière littéraire de l’académie de la Guadeloupe et qui permet de promouvoir les écrivains issus de la littérature antillaise et caribéenne tels que Ernest Pépin, Gisèle Pineau, Patrick Chamoiseau, Dany Laferrière, Simone Schwarz-Bart (qui ont été les marraines et parrains des manifestations précédentes).
Gladys M. Francis compte plus d’une quarantaine d’articles portant sur ses domaines de spécialisation, ainsi que quatre livres: Amour, sexe, genre et trauma dans la Caraïbe francophone (L’Harmattan, 2016), Odious Caribbean Women: The Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression (Lexington Books, 2017), Épopée Créole : Histoires en transgression (L’Harmattan, automne 2022), et Fabienne Kanor in Transgression (à paraître en 2025 avec Yale University Press).
Ways to connect with Associate Dean Francis:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanfrancishu
- https://twitter.com/DeanFrancisHU
- Main Concentration: Post/colonial, Caribbean, North and West African Studies - Secondary concentration: Theory and Cultural Studies | Visual Arts
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
2008
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
2003
- Main Concentration: Second Language Acquisition (FLE) - Secondary concentration: Network Technology Integration in Education
University of the Antilles – Schoelcher Martinique, France
2002
University of the Antilles – Schoelcher Martinique, France
2000
Associate Dean, Academic Student Affairs - July 1, 2022-Current
Office of the Dean, Howard University
Head, French and Francophone Studies Program - 2018-2022
Department of World Languages and Cultures, GSU
Director, Graduate Studies - 2018-2022
Department of World Languages and Cultures, GSU
Inaugural Director, The Africana Studies Center - 2019-2020
College of Arts and Sciences, GSU
Director, The South Atlantic Center - 2013-2018
Atlanta, GA & Paris, France
Sponsored by The Institute of the Americas, The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and The Ministry of European Affairs
Director, Study Abroad and Exchange Programs - 2009-2024
Co-director, A/Synchronous Language/Cultural Learning Laboratory - 2011-2012
School of Arts, Humanities, and Communication, Susquehanna University
Instructional Web interface for the molding of technology and learning styles assessment that comprise the designing of Network technology templates for language instruction
Director, Haitian Relief Effort Task Force & Haitian Relief projects - 2008-2011
Wesleyan
Urban Studies | Study Abroad | Geohumanities | Africana Studies |
Theory and Cultural Studies | Women’s, Sexuality, and Gender Studies |
Literatures and Visual Arts (Caribbean, Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa) |
Digital Pedagogy and Instructional Technology
Books, Peer-reviewed
4. Fabienne Kanor in Transgression. Ed. Francis, Gladys M. (forthcoming 2025, Yale University Press)
3. Francis, Gladys M. Épopée créole: Histoires en transgression. Collection L'Autre Caraïbe, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2022 (264 pages, ISBN: 978-2-14-027649-1)
2. Francis, Gladys M. Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression. After the Empire, Series on Postcolonial Francophone Literature and Culture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017 (190 pages, ISBN: 978-1-4985-4350-7)
1. Amour, sexe, genre et trauma dans la Caraïbe francophone. Ed. Francis, Gladys M. Collection Espaces Littéraires, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2016 (294 pages, ISBN: 978-2-343-07395-8)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters, Peer-reviewed
27. Francis, Gladys M. “Chapé. Parting. Running Away: The Introduction to Fabienne Kanor’s Transgressions.” Fabienne Kanor in Transgression. (forthcoming 2025, Yale University Press)
26. Francis, Gladys M. “Corpomemorial Tracing, Poetics of Negation, and Aesthetics of Pain in Humus”. Fabienne Kanor in Transgression. (forthcoming 2025, Yale University Press)
25. Francis, Gladys M. "Performing while Black: Disrupting Gender and Sexuality from Trinidad to Norway. The Artivism of Thomas Prestø." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 21.2 (September, 2021): 279-296
24. Francis, Gladys M. "Remapping Disability through Contested Urban Landscapes and Embodied Performances." The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. Cambridge University Press, 8.2 (April 2021): 277-285. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2020.36
23. Francis, Gladys M. “Techni’ka or the Contemporary Voice from Guadeloupe: From Within and Beyond a Caribbean Dance Ecology.” My Voice, My Practice: Black Dance. Ed. Pawlet Brookes. Leicester UK: Serendipity Artists Movement Ltd (January, 2021) 38-49
22. Francis, Gladys M. Introduction. “BROUGHT TO BROOKes or the Defiant Bearing of Creolization.”10 years in the Making. Editor P. Brooks. Serendipity Artists Movement Ltd, Leicester: De Montfort University UK, April 2020
21. Francis, Gladys M. "Quand l’invisible s’affiche: Entretien avec Fabienne Kanor. Inscrire et réitérer des identités ouvertes, mouvantes et complexes" Francosphères. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 8.1 (2019): 85-100
20. Francis, Gladys M. “Black Bodies in Movement: Re-presenting and Re-claiming Ourselves.” Black Dance. Ed. Pawlet Brookes. Leicester UK: Serendipity Artists Movement Ltd (November 2019) 97-107
19. Francis, Gladys M. "Case départ: Slavery in Martinique through the Lens of Comedy." Celluloid Chains: Slavery in the Americas through Film. Eds. Block and Duke, Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, (Summer 2018, June 15, 2018): 198-221. http://utpress.org/title/celluloid-chains/
18. Francis, Gladys M. and Lynn E. Palermo. "Tyrannie en ‘France’: André Breton et Gerty Dambury." Entre-texte: Dialogues littéraires et culturels. Eds. Oana Panaïté and Vera Klekovkina, Routledge, 2017, pp. 277-298
17. Francis, Gladys M. "Fabienne Kanor « l’Ante-llaise par excellence »: sexualité, corporalité, diaspora et créolité." The French Forum peer-reviewed journal of French and Francophone literature and film, Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press 41.3 (2017): 273-288
16. Francis, Gladys M. and Lynn E. Palermo. "Exotisme, dialogisme et chaos en milieu antillais: André Breton et Gerty Dambury" in Communautés de lecture: pour une approche dialogique des œuvres classiques et contemporaines/Reading Communities: A dialogical Approach to French and Francophone Literature. Ed. O. Panaïté, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (2016): 48-68
15. Francis, Gladys M. “Introduction. Dis-positions Créoles: Corpographies du désir, du trauma et de la résistance aux Antilles.” Amour, sexe, genre et trauma dans la Caraïbe francophone, Paris: L’Harmattan, (2016): 15-25
14. Francis, Gladys M. “Entretien avec Simone Schwarz-Bart: ‘Vivre à la Tout-Monde.’” Amour, sexe, genre et trauma dans la Caraïbe francophone. Paris: L’Harmattan, (2016): 191-206.
13. Francis, Gladys M. “Résister au compromis, crever la douleur, dire le silence: entretien avec Jocelyne Béroard.” Amour, sexe, genre et trauma dans la Caraïbe francophone. Paris: L’Harmattan, (2016): 229-249
12. Francis, Gladys M. and Béatrice Mélina. “L’ARThralgie Créole de Béatrice Mélina: Peindre arythmies et articulations identitaires.” Amour, sexe, genre et trauma dans la Caraïbe francophone, Paris: L’Harmattan, (2016): 253-262
11. Francis, Gladys M. "Creolization on the Move in Francophone Caribbean Literature." The Oxford Diasporas Programme. Oxford: The University of Oxford (2015): 1-15
10. Francis, Gladys M. “Transgressive Embodied Writings of KAribbean Bodies in Pain.” Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean. Ed. Ousseina Alidou and Renée Larrier. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2015): 57-76
9. Francis, Gladys M. "Guadeloupe’s Ka-ribbean Bodies in Conflict: Gerty Dambury and Gisèle Pineau" Critical Perspectives on Conflict in Caribbean Societies of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries. Ed. R. Sobiac & P. Donatien-Yssa. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press (2015): 65-82.
8. Francis, Gladys M. “Africa, France and the French Antilles: Beyond Négritude and Créolité in Dance.” Creolizing Dance in a Global Age. Ed. Pawlet Brookes. Leicester UK: Serendipity Artists Movement Ltd (2015) 46-57
7. Francis, Gladys M. "Folies sacrificielles dans le théâtre francophone africain." Le Sacrifice dans les littératures francophones. Ed Gyssels, Stevens, and Edwards. Collection Francopolyphonies 17. NY: Rodopi (2014): 39-65
6. Garrett-Rucks, P., and Gladys M. Francis. “A hypermedia annotation of Belle-île-en-Mer Marie-Galante” (Laurent Voulzy, 1985). Mywebspace, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Web. July 7, 2014.
5. Garrett-Rucks, P., and Gladys M. Francis “A hypermedia annotation of Contagion” (Albert Camus, 1947). Mywebspace, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Web. 2013
4. Francis, Gladys M. "Le drame de Sony Labou Tansi: faire jouer le corps souffrant et se jouer de la folie." In Corps et voix d'Afrique francophone et ses diasporas: Poétiques contemporaines et oralité. Revue d’Études Françaises. Ed. Sylvie Chalaye. Budapest: University Press of ELTE Hungary 18.1 (2013): 213-217
3. Francis, Gladys M. "Fonctions et enjeux de la danse et de la musique dans le texte francophone créole." Nouvelles Études Francophones. University of Nebraska Press 26.1 (2011): 179-94.
2. Francis, Gladys M. "(Con)Text, Bodily Politics and Violences of the Cuban Female Body." Negritud Journal Revista de Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos 4.1 (2010)
1. Francis, Gladys M. "Women’s Transgressional Writings in Gender and Body (Con)texts in Gabonese Afra Writings." Women’s Studies an Inter-Disciplinary Journal Routledge 38.1–16 (2009): 872-887
Other Peer-reviewed Publications: book reviews, prefaces, forewords, afterwords
11. Francis, Gladys M. Endorsement. Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works by Lisa Connell and Delphine Gras. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022
10. Francis, Gladys M. Foreword. “La Techni’ka de Lénablou: Les enjeux d’une syntaxe du gwo ka et du Bigidi.” Techni’ka. Méthodologie et principes culturels caribéens pour l’enseignement du gwoka et du bigidi by Lénablou. Nouvelle Edition revue et augmentée. Pointe-à-Pitre : Éditions Jasor, November 2020
9. Francis, Gladys M. “Afterword.” Humus an English-language edition by Lynn E. Palermo. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, (September 2020) 191-202
8. Francis, Gladys M. “Unapologetic Globalized Art Enterprise: Fostering Diversity, Cultural Exchange and Artistic Innovation.” United Kingdom Vanguard Connect Magazine 1.1 (April 2019): 5
7. Francis, Gladys M. Review of Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016, by ed. Germain & Larcher. University of Nebraska Press, 2018. New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG), MA: Brill Publishing Boston, 94.1-2 (June 3, 2020): 167-168 https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/94/1-2/article-p167_32.xml
6. Francis, Gladys M. Review of The Flesh of History across Borders and Boundaries, by Fabienne Kanor. SAMLA89 Pre-conference special event, November 2, 2017. South Atlantic Modern Language Association, GA: Georgia State University, 38 (spring 2018): 8. March 9, 2018
5. Francis, Gladys M. Review of Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory, by Cheryl Toman. Lexington Books, 2016. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, OK: University of Tulsa, 36.2 (fall 2017): 512-514
4. Francis, Gladys M. Review of Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory, by Cheryl Toman. Lexington Books, 2016. French Studies, Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 71.4 (September 18, 2017): 601-602 https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knx189
3. Francis, Gladys M. “Opacity: Liminal Landmine-Bodies.” Rev. of Liberty Limited by Károly Sándor Pallai. Empty Mirror Books 23 December 2013. Web. 3 Jan 2013.
2. Francis, Gladys M. Foreword. Liberty Limited. By Károly Sándor Pallai. Seychelles: Arthée, 2013
1. Francis, Gladys M. " Body (text), Music and Dance in Guadeloupe and Martinique." International Migration Institute Working Paper Series, the Oxford Diaspora Programme. UK: Oxford University, 2013
Works in Progress
Books
3. Francis, Gladys M. Urban Cities and Social Justice: Re-Thinking and Re-Claiming Urban Spaces (Working Title, academic book project)
2. Francis, Gladys M. Sex Trafficking and Gender Violence in West Africa and the French Caribbean (Working Title, academic book project)
1. Francis, Gladys M. Islands and Identities: from Gorée to the West Indies. Memory and Trauma in Comparative Perspectives (anthology project)
Articles
3. Francis, Gladys M. “This is my Jamaica. This is my Black Diaspora"
2. Francis, Gladys M. “KAribbean KAtharsis: Embodying Riddance, Impedance and Resistance"
1. Francis, Gladys M. “La transmission d’expériences féminines noires incarnées”
39. Invited Honorary Keynote. Débrouya Pa Péché : Faire progresser la justice sociale. Guadeloupe France – March 2024
38. Invited Keynote. Chimen Bwa : Innover et inspirer à travers un leadership responsable et intersectionnel. Leadership Series of Caraïbe Talents (Senior Executives and Human Resources Board Members), Dir. Hélène Labeth. Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe France – December 7, 2023
37. Invited to deliver plenary lecture. "Migrations, Voyages and Travel" International Multilingual Conference. Mary's College, Hyderabad Telangana, India - July 21-22, 2023.
36. Invited Keynote. “Kouri Pa Ni Sézon: Mawonner l’inexorabilité du monde.” Une matrice diasporique à tisser: l’héritage des afrodescendantes aux Amériques. Black History Month, Colloque international. Université des Antilles & Connected Worlds: The Caribbean Origin of the Modern World, Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe France – February 14, 2023
35. Invited Graduate Seminar Keynote “Parlons Genre. Parlons Intersectionnalité/Let’s Talk Gender & Intersectionality.” Public: CLIMAS Research Faculty and students pursuing their MA in MA in Gender, Cultures, and Societies Studies and 3rd year BA students in LEA Studies (Langues étrangères appliquées). Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France, December 6, 2022
34. Invited Doctoral Seminar Keynote. 3-hour Seminar with the Doctoral School “Corpememorial Tracing: An Embodied Learning Experience/Le trace corpomémoriel: une expérience d’apprentissage incarnée.” Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France, December 5, 2022
33. Invited Keynote. International Mobility Scholar: "Teaching and Learning Through the Lens of Social Justice: Towards an Intersectional Pedagogy/Enseigner et apprendre à travers le prisme de la justice sociale: l’intersectionnalité en contexte pédagogique." Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Amphitheater 3 Salomon, France, November 25, 2022
32. Invited Keynote. International Mobility Scholar: FEMPOCO Seminar Femmes artistes et féminismes noirs de l’Afrique à ses diasporas: « Le fanménisme de Fabienne Kanor » Cayenne, French Guiana South America – October 10, 2022
31. Invited speaker: “Being visibly Afro-Francophone and Transgressing Politics of Silence and Erasure.” Seminar “Afro-Hispanic Linguistics: History, Languages and Cultures” GSU – November 3, 2021.
30. Invited Speaker: “Humus of Pain: You Cannot Look Away.” International Women's Day Webinar Event with Invited speakers Drs. G. M. Francis and C. Toman. Les violences faites aux femmes: parcours en romans. The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and the University of Iowa – March 8, 2021
29. Invited Speaker: “Le racisme anti-Noir systémique en contexte sud états-unien: des écoles aux prisons.” Conference Les fondements du racisme anti-noir et les luttes d’émancipation. Université des Antilles, CGHSP-Guadeloupe & CO.RE.CA, July 17, 2020
28. Invited Speaker: “I Can’t Breathe ! Transgression, créolisation et expériences afra-diasporiques dans l’œuvre de Fabienne Kanor” in session L’immigration et les cultures créoles dans les littératures antillaises. Mont Carmel College Conference entitled Du texte au contexte: apprentissage de la lecture empathique, Autonomous, Bengaluru India June 30, 2020
27. Honorary Keynote Speaker: Official opening ceremony of Leadership and Power Nordic Dialogues Conference “Know your gaze and position – colonialism within the arts.” Keynote title: The Genesis of Effective Power: Make Space so I Can Represent Myself, so We Can Make History – Organized by the Norwegian Minister of Culture, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Arts Council of Norway, Trine Skei Grande, Oslo Norway, December 3, 2019
26. Honorary Keynote Speaker: Know your Gate and Position: A Dialogue. Keynote title: “This Is What Happens When We Embrace Diversity and Equity Effectively” – Organized by the Norwegian Minister of Culture, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Arts Council of Norway, Trine Skei Grande, Oslo Norway, December 3, 2019
25. Invited Speaker “Esthétiques Afra transgressives: corps irregardables, sexualités impudentes et désirs autres ” Héritières de la Vénus noire: La résistance des corps asservis – International Conference organized by Centre d’Analyse Géopolitique et Internationale (CAGI) et Laboratoire Caribéen de Sciences Sociales (LC2S), GSU Africana Studies Cenrer, Memorial ACTe Pointe-à-Pitre Guadeloupe, November 26, 2019
24. Invited Speaker “Héritières de la Vénus noire: Résistance et réclamation discursive et corporelle” Round table – International Conference, Memorial ACTe Pointe-à-Pitre Guadeloupe, November 26, 2019
23. Invited Speaker “>Non-aligned Utopias< Borderless Afra Artistic and Cultural Mutations” – France-Atlanta 2019 Round Table Event. Sponsored by the French Embassy, GA Tech, Atlanta Global Studies Center. GA Tech October 9, 2019
22. Invited Speaker “The Contested Spaces of African Vernacular: Corpomemorial-Tracing Pedagogies and Embodied Activisms.” Black Dance: A Contemporary Voice Conference – De Montfort University. Leicester, United Kingdom, April 30, 2019
21. Invited Lecture: “Frisk, Risk or Die: An Exploration of Social Justice Through the Arts” In the Library Discussions Featuring Faculty Publications – The Multicultural Center and Division of Student Affairs GSU – Atlanta, GA, March 21, 2018
20. Keynote Speaker: “French Scholar Dr. Gladys M. Francis (USA) and Trinidadian Artist Thomas Talawa Presto (Oslo)” – Signature Events Moving Conversations, Modern Moves. King’s College, London UK, June 29, 2017
19. Keynote Speaker: “Frisk, Risk or Die: Dancing the Caribbean Stripped and Exposed” – Caribbean Studies Research Seminar Gender & Sexuality in Caribbean Dance, the Willson Center and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. University of Georgia. Athens, March 25, 2016
18. “Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue” – The international symposium of women writers from Africa & its diaspora. Mbaasem Foundation, OWWA, NYU. Accra Ghana, May 16-19, 2013
17. “Body (text), Music and Dance in the Caribbean: Negotiating the Double Bind of Dispossessed Origins and Becoming Other." The University Oxford (Diaspora Programme) UK, Dec 6-7, 2012
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39. Featured in Portraits de Femmes Magazine. 2ème edition Hors Série #Elles font la Guadeloupe. Interview with Ewag Journalist Anne-Laure Labenne. March 2024
38. Featured in Inaugural “Celebrate Purdue Women” Video Series aiming to create a vibrant and impactful community for women’s collective excellence and well-being in academia. The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence serves as a catalyst for developing leadership for the 21st century. Purdue University, January 16, 2024
37. Interviewed for L’Express magazine news story “A Howard University, la Harvard noire” (along with the former 17th President of Howard University). L’express, Rubrique Monde Amériques, September 21, 2023, p. 46-47.
36. Featured in Education section of France-Amérique magazine in interview with Journalist Hélène Vissière (US Correspondent). « Gladys Francis : Connecting the Caribbean and America. » September 2023, Vol 16, No 9. Laetitia Monier (Creative Director), Alexander Uff (translation), and Boris Séméniako (illustrations).
35. Karib’Info/L’Hebdo Antilles-Guyane E-magazine: Dossier spécial et couverture consacrés au Dr. Gladys M. Francis avec la journaliste Cécilia LARNEY « Il n’y a pas de succès dans échec. » Guadeloupe, France, February 25, 2023 https://hebdoantillesguyane.com/l-hebdo-antilles-guyane-n65/
34. France-Antilles Guadeloupe Newspaper. Premier Black History Month au Campus du Camps Jacob: Reçoit la doyenne le Dr. Gladys M. Francis. Guadeloupe, France, February 20, 2023 https://www.karibinfo.com/index.php/2023/02/14/black-history-month-luniversite-des-antilles-recoit-les-drs-gladys-francis-et-diana-senior/
33. Le conseil départemental de la Guadeloupe. Rencontre avec le Président et ses équipes. Guadeloupe, France, February 16, 2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/CovyyEWoe-q/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y
32. Le conseil régional de la Guadeloupe. Rencontre avec le Président de la Région Guadeloupe et ses équipes. Guadeloupe, France, February 16, 2023 https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=572236824952018&id=100064971150732&sfnsn=mo&_rdr
31. Kafé littéraire Event Esteem Caribbean. Les kafés de l’Arawak. Guadeloupe, France, Februrary 15, 2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7Tokdo4yR/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
30. ZCL/Canal 10 TV live interview with Danik Zandwonis to discuss my books Épopée créole and Amour sexe genre et trauma Guadeloupe, France, February 15, 2023 https://youtube.be/luJUwfbdJ1I
29. Antilla-martinique Magazine. Rencontre avec le Président de l’université des Antilles et ses équipes. Guadeloupe, France, February 15, 2023 https://antilla-martinique.com/44286-2/
28. Radio Interview. RCI Guadeloupe (Radio Caraïbe Internationale) to discuss my Black History Month Tour in Guadeloupe (leadership work at Howard University, Invited Conference Keynote, Book signing event, etc). Guadeloupe, France, February 15, 2023 https://www.rci.fm/guadeloupe/emission/Allez-plus-loin/Allez-plus-loin-mercredi-15-fevrier-2023
27. TV Invited Guest. Guadeloupe la 1ère France TV Night Live News. TV host Yasmina Yacou. Guadeloupe la 1ère France TV. Guadeloupe, France, February 14, 2023 https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guadeloupe/programme-video/la1ere_guadeloupe_guadeloupe-soir-19h30/diffusion/4576663-emission-du-mardi-14-fevrier-2023.html
26. Invited Speaker. Part of Visiting Professorship Award: "Teaching and Learning Through the Lens of Social Justice: Towards an Intersectional Pedagogy/Enseigner et apprendre à travers le prisme de la justice sociale: l’intersectionnalité en contexte pédagogique." Sponsored by the Departments of English, American Studies, Comparative Literature, and the CLIMAS Research Unit. Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France, December 5, 2022
25. Invited Guest. Guyane la 1ère France TV Night Live News. News feature retracing my background, research, and keynote at the Université de Guyane. TV host Leila Cherubin-Jeannette, Rédactrice en Chef Laurence Tian Sio Po. https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guyane/programme-video/la1ere_guyane_guyane-soir/diffusion/4184761-emission-du-mardi-11-octobre-2022.html
24. Radio Interview. Guyane la 1ère Radio with Vanessa Etienne: “Gladys Francis: Une trajectoire internationale” Cayenne, South America, October 10, 2022
23. Invited Keynote. Séminaire FEMPOCO sur les féminismes postcoloniaux: "Le famnénisme de Fabienne Kanor: Tisser racines et goumer ensemble" with respondant Dr. Tina Harpin. Replay on Bibliothèque numérique Manioc https://fempoco.hypotheses.org/https://fempoco.hypotheses.org/. Sponsored by Bureau des Relations internationales, Département de formation et de recherche en Lettres et Sciences humaines, laboratoire MINEA. Université de Guyane, Cayenne Campus, South America, October 10-11, 2022
22. Interview with Journal Nouvelles Etincelles n° 979: L'enseignante Gladys Francis à la tête d'une université américaine. Charlène Raverat. June 16, 2022
21. Webinaire: Les « Entretiens du CAGI » de l’UA Guadeloupe/Martinique qui portent un regard critique sur les rapports sociaux de domination et sur la (post)colonialité.Webinaire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5O31oJNy20 June 28, 2022
20. Interview on #Canal10 TV Guadeloupe and Facebook Live TV Show #Tanama with Tanama’s TV host Dr. Stéphanie Meylon-Reinette. June 9, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2d1YAfpkko
19. ZCL/Canal 10 TV interview with Danik Zandwonis, June 8 at 12:30pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5DoFZg6p_Q
18. CAGI interview on Radio La 1ère Guadeloupe https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guadeloupe/emissions-radio/journal-13h-0, June 8, 2022
17. Featured author for quote in Moving Lines: Fifty Reasons to Dance, a figurative book by Patricia Vester that explores the creation of socially engaged art and how dance connects and shapes individuals through intergenerational encounters. Leicester UK: Serendipity Artists Movement Ltd (April 2022)
16. Featured Author for Black History Month on the website and social media platforms of the Zoryan Institute based in Toronto, ON, Canada and focused on genocide, human rights, and diaspora-homeland relations, February 2022
15. Invited Speaker (with Professor Marimoutou from U of Reunion). Virtual Vernissage of “Le Thinnai Kreyol Archipelago,” hosted by Dr. Ananya Kabir (King’s College London) and Author Ari Gautier, 60 min discussion event: Live on Le Thinnai Kreyol’s FP/Streamyard, 6PM CEST, June 5, 2020
14. Francis, Gladys M. “White size fit some: White privilege in the Nordic Cultural Institutions” interview with journalist Maria Sung Ae, Subjekt magazine, Oslo: Norway, November 30, 2019
13. Francis, Gladys M. “The conversation about white privilege is uncomfortable but necessary” interview with Kulturrâdet Art Council, Oslo: Norway November 20, 2019
12. Guadeloupe la 1ère to discuss Maryse Condé’s Alternative Nobel Literature Prize. December 10, 2018
11. Interviewed by Ada Wood on “The Usage of the N-word in Modern Culture” for The Signal newspaper. October 10, 2018
10. Featured in the “Faculty Profiles” highlighting the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty – Dean’s Office GSU Spring 2018
9. A 7-minute interview on film with GSU’s Center for Instructional Innovation to showcase my work on hybridization in my GSU classes - Atlanta, GA. http://youtu.be/Ijt1Udq0oWk. Released in January 2015
8. A 4-minute video “Activate Hybrid Pedagogy - Dr. Gladys M. Francis” from “Student Innovation@GSU.edu” https://vimeo.com/145164941 Released in November 2015
7. Interview on my work on hybridization and digitization of the classroom. “Head of the Classroom: In this Age of Innovation, GSU Educators Are Turning the Traditional Classroom Model on its End.” November 2014
6. Interviewed by Radio France International and France 24 journalist Brenna Daldorph on Dance and Creolization. King’s College London - organized by Serendipity Dance and Modern Moves: Kinetic Transnationalism and Afro-Diasporic Rhythm Cultures Research Project. May 2014
5. “Midi en Guadeloupe” Guadeloupe la 1ère France Télévisions - December 2, 2013
4. Interviewed by Chelda Nessal (TV Magazine France-Antilles) - Atlanta, GA. October 2013
3. Interviewed by French TV Production Kapalé - Atlanta, GA. October 2013
2. Interviewed by Eunice Agyare TV-Continental Ghana on the legacy of Nigerian novelist, professor and critic Chinua Achebe - Accra Ghana. May 19, 2013
1. Interviewed by OWWA Media Archive - Accra Ghana. May 19, 2013
