A 342/542: Alexandre Dauge-Roth (Bates) è (Re)Cadrer l’(In)Justice

Biography 

Alexandre Dauge-Roth, Ph.D University of Michigan 

Alexandre Dauge-Roth is Professor of French and Francophone Studies. His scholarship and teaching investigate the social dynamics and polemical tensions between personal memory and collective trauma through testimonial literature, cinema, and documentaries. He published Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History in 2010 and co-organized in 2014 an interdisciplinary conference and a film series in Paris on the representations of the Genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda: Rwanda 1994-2014 : constructions mémorielles et écriture de l’histoire. He has also explored social practices of exclusion and rebranding of the self in the context of the AIDS pandemic in France as well as in Sub-Saharan Africa through the works of Koulsy Lamko and Fanta Regina Nacro. He discussed graft and transplant as prominent metaphors for the migrant and the host in the works of Malika Mokeddem and Jean-Luc Nancy. In his research on contemporary French literature, he published essays on Hervé Guibert, François Bon, Georges Perec, and Claude Simon. His teaching addresses issues of social belonging and identity through the historical, political, and medical representations of borders and the body in contemporary French and Francophone literature and film. During the academic year 2019-20, he directed the Hamilton in France program in Paris. His current research project “(Un)Framing (In)Justice” focusses on the representations of law and justice in Francophone literature and cinema. He is currently Division Chair for the Humanities 2024-2027.