Profile

After studying at the Université de Montréal, in Québec, and University College London, in England, Clara Soucanh completed her Master’s degree in Comparative Literature at Sorbonne Université in Paris. Her first-year Master’s thesis compared the works of Édouard Glissant and Gloria Anzaldúa and explored the issues of borders as shifting environments that question ideologies of national purity and unitary cultures. Her second-year Master's thesis compared Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, La Fantasia, and Julia Alvarez’s How The García Girls Lost Their Accent through the lens of cultural and linguistic hybridity. Prior to Princeton, she was a Language Fellow in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Vassar College, NY.

Research Interests

Clara’s research interests focus on works of literature revolving around issues of exile, diasporas, and migrations, with an emphasis on exophonic and bilingual writers, as well as contemporary literature dealing with globalization and creolization. She is particularly interested in Caribbean, Québecois, and South-East Asian works of literature. As a comparatist, she values intermediality and interdisciplinarity in research and, as a graduated student, wishes to explore the intersection between literature, arts, linguistics, and sociology. Although Francophone literature and postcolonial literature are central to her academic activity, her interests also span a wide variety of subjects, such as contemporary critical theory, post-structuralism, gender studies and translation studies.