Profile

Born in Saint-Maurice, a suburb of Paris, France, Jordan grew up in Cameroon (his homeland), where he obtained a Bachelor's degree with honors in English and French from the University of Buea. Before joining Princeton this fall, he graduated from Boston College with a Master's degree in French Literature. At Boston College, he had the opportunity as a Teaching Fellow to teach two sections of Intermediate French each semester. For his M.A. thesis he explored, through the work of Souleymane Diamanka and Minh Tran Huy, the poetics of culture as portrayed in literature written in French. He mainly focused on the way it creates through a creolized aesthetic a new culture or a "poetics of relation.''

Areas of Interest

Jordan’s areas of interest include Caribbean and Sub-Saharan African literature written in French as well as 20th-century French literature. He is particularly interested in comparative perspectives on the theme of exile as portrayed in these literatures, as well as linguistic representations and concepts such as: creolization.